I was on the I Love Lucy subreddit yesterday (btw I’m a HUGE fan) and some bitch was all “Ricky and almost every husband from that period was so CREEPY and MENACING. I LOVED it when the wife made her husband miserable and they could do fun stuff together without those MEN 🤬.” Because Ricky would spank her, or Lucy was afraid he would hit her so she purposely went out and got a bad sun burn. Oh ok so the episode where Lucy thought Ricky got her a 3500 dollar fur coat and did the old “you remembered our anniversary!!!” trope … poor Ricky tried explaining and he didn’t want to upset her. Then when the truth came out, it was revealed that he could never remember their anniversary because any time Lucy wanted something, she would go “happy anniversary” to guilt him into buying her very expensive gifts. Which she did out of revenge for not actually gifting her the fur coat. Oh but those scummy husbands deserve to be miserable. Also … it’s supposed to be a FUNNY SITCOM … and on the Flintstones, Fred goes out of his way to be nice to Wilma’s mother but Wilma basically lets her walk all over Fred and be really nasty. Fred also has a big mouth but come on. I never liked Wilma’s mother.

While I do NOT agree with how a lot of husbands were abusive drunks towards their wives back in the day, some women definitely weren’t perfect innocent angels either. The way mothers basically verbally and physically abused their kids back then makes me sick to my stomach.