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Were women and men healthier and better looking in the past? I would say both yes and no. In societies where there were little poverty, people ate a lot of vegetables, had access to good healthcare, hygiene and there were peace I would say it was true. People weren't overweight and had fitter bodies.
In societies with poorer economy, technology, hard labor, a lot of diseases and wars people didn't look good. People often missed teeth, were underweight, wrinkled and shorter. They didn't know tobacco and alcohol were dangerous either making their skin even worse in addition to hard labor in the sun. I would say in some societies in the medieval area people most likely looked and smelled really bad, but that the rich people in ancient Rome and Greece looked fit and decent. In the Victorian areas and the 1900s I would say it depended a lot on the person's wealth.
I would say people in the 1980s definitively looked way better than people today if we looks away from fashion. There were less overweight and fat people at that time. Nowadays people may be less wrinkled thanks to botox and having better teeth because of improved dentists, but the junk food and TV-culture makes people bigger and bigger. Being fat may be more noticeable than a wrinkle from a long distance.
Women, and men, in the past, were probably more physically fit. If the general population was healthier is a more difficult question to answer. Modern medicine has taken care of a lot of diseases that once were terrible scourges. At the same time, obesity is a major medical problem.
Your name is Blitzkrieg and you've posted a bunch of images taken from Nazi propagada. Get out of here.
It's an old family name. My Great great great grandfather was german. Athletic German woman are no more propoganda than fanta, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Hugo boss or NASA
They literally have swastikas on their tops.
So did fanta the official soda of the Nazis.
You just said fanta wasn't propaganda.
Exactly the swastika was the emblem of the country.
It was the emblem of the organisation that took over the country, plenty of Germans hated them. The images you posted are Nazi propaganda, one of them is wearing a nazi uniform FFS. I'd actually have more respect for you if you just admitted you're into Nazism instead of making up these ridiculous justifications.
Yeah it's no different than the star and stripes on a coke bottle.
She's wearing her boyfriend's jacket, he was in the wermarct. Nazis wore black or brown uniforms like the ss or sa. The Wermarct is alive and well today in Germany just like Mercedes and fanta.
I dont need any justifications, being a German
... American is nothing to be ashamed of. Albert Einstein was german, so was Oscar schindler
The images you posted depict "The League of German Girls", they were part of the Hitler Youth movement and directly associated with the Nazi party and used for propaganda purposes. But of course you know this.
Also Einstein hated the Nazis and renounced his German citizenship because of them, so what's your point?
Everyone was part of the Hitler youth all other youth movements were absorbed or shut down. America had and has similar organisations.
So what? That doesn't change the fact they were used for nazi propaganda. If anything, it just amplifies it.
I'm sorry what is the difference?
The difference between what?
Between 1930s images of women in athletics?
I assume you mean what's the difference between 1930s images of female athletes from America and Nazi Germany?
Well let's see, one of them was used to promote the ideals of a tyrannical organization that tried to commit genocide, the other was not.
"Well let's see, one of them was used to promote the ideals of a tyrannical organization that tried to commit genocide, the other was not." Sounds like the US government in tje 20s&30s. Let's not forget the plight of native Americans, the banana wars, the lynchings of thousands blacks every year, and the US eugenics programmes that surgically sterilized people deemed racially inferior not go mention experiments on human beings tgat would make Dr Mengala proud. The US government even believed the Japanese were inferior pilots up until pearl harbour because they had slanted eyes.
Nothing you said makes any difference to the fact that the Nazis were a genocidal regime, and you trying to justify your support for that genocidal regime by citing the crimes of other governments is a meaningless argument. And why specifically discuss America? The Nazis attacked many countries.
"Stop punching that guy in the face!"
"But that guy over there is punching someone, so why can't I!"
Nothing you said makes any difference to the fact that the Nazis were a genocidal regime? The native Americans say that about the US government as do other indigenous people all over the Americas.
America has attacked many countries too, I think Obama set a Guinness record for countries bombed by a world leader.
"Stop punching that guy in the face!"
"But that guy over there is punching someone, so why can't I!"
More like
" That guy is wrong for punching people in face"
" if it's wrong why are you doing it too"
" because it's not wrong when I do it".
And? You're just trying to move the goalposts of the argument because you're ashamed to admit you're a nazi.
I don't believe for a second you care about native Americans. Every major country on the planet has dubious parts of its history, that doesn't mean they aren't better places today. How far back are we going to go in history to judge countries by? Because by that measure, they are all terrible.
And guess what, it's possible to oppose nazis and oppose all those things you said about America as well.
Not moving the goal posts, just calling out your hypocrisy.
"And guess what, it's possible to oppose nazis and oppose all those things you said about America as well." The swatizitka doesn't fly over the reighStag but the start and stripes flys over congress
Lol the irony of you calling hypocrisy! You're a nazi trying to use the historical offences by one country to justify your support of one of the most evil regimes in history. No matter how many examples of the crimes of other countries to mention, nothing changes about the fact you support nazis.
Not justifying anything but how can you say what the Nazis did to six million Jews was worse than what the US government did to six million native Americans?
In the context of what we're talking about here, why does it matter which one was "worse"? You don't have to choose the least evil option, you can condemn both. You seem to think that supporting one evil group is justified because other evil groups have existed. I mean, what would you think if I told you I was a big fan of Pol Pot and I justified that by saying "hey the Nazis were just as bad!"
Also, there is a world of difference between the modern attitudes of the US govt and people compared to what was going on hundreds of years ago, whereas people alive today still remember WW2. The historical crimes of the US govt against native Americans is recognized, not even most actual living native Americans today consider the US flag to be a symbol of oppression anymore, and many of them have served in the US military.
The US flag has a modern significance in line with modern values, the nazi swastika on the other hand has only ever meant one thing.
They're in an official nazi girls organisation, like the Hitler Jugend for girls. It was nothing but propaganda and indoctrination.
Kind of - there was less obesity and overweight people in the past.
Why are all these women Nazi affiliates
They are just women from the 30s&40s.
Coincidental
Exercising?
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I also find it disturbing that the only images of women you cite are from Nazi Germany. There are no different groups of women: blacks, Native Americans, Asians or other time periods in the 20th century. You need a broader range of periods and people to consider if women were fitter or healthier. I also know the number (88) stands for the eighth letter of the alphabet doubled, HH, meaning Heil Hitler. We know what you're about Blitz.
Blitzkrieg is an old German name. I was always thought 88 referenced the deadly 88 gun.
Well, now you know it's a white supremecist shorthand for hail Hitler. It might also refer to an 88 caliber gun. But that's not the common usage. Blitzkrieg, or lightning war, was Hitler's strategy for a swift military victory by bombarding the enemy with everything his military had.
Oh well I'm ignorant of such things not being a white supremacist to know this.
Well, ya know if you show images of Nazi Germany from WWII, you can be mistaken for one. Remember Dave Chappelle's joke about whores. "Women complain that when they wear skimpy, sexy outfits men call them whores. Well, you may NOT be whores, ladies. But you know, if you wear the UNIFORM, you just might be mistaken for one..." White supremacists might have the tendency to think images of Nazi Germany are great images to use to make a point... And the name Blitzkrieg, unless it's YOUR name, historically refers to Hitler's war tactics...
I don't know what you're talking about, buddy?
Women today have never been healthier!!!
That's a man lol
I think so, back then they looked more mature and womanly, while these days they always seem to go for the girlish look, in fact, it seems in today's time, a lot of childish traits are considered feminine, while traits showing maturity are considered masculine.
I don't think anything has changed. But I do notice, that women today when they age most of them become fat. At least in the 3. th world countries.
But while they are young, almost none of them are fat. Most of them are beautiful. Too bad social media on their iphones suck their life out, making them unavailable placeholders here.
That depends on the women... Obesity in males has increased immensely though as they’ve taken more office jobs.
True but women are still more obese here in thevus than men.
Hotter: Not really. I mean I'm sure they were attractive but modern women are different thicc
Healthier: Definitely. Women today aren't on the bone breaking, fat breaking diets they were. Whether that's good or bad is a different question.
Obesity is out of control among women today
It's out of control with everyone
You're posting pictures of Nazis. Get in your Beetle and go back home to racist land, OK?
Simples...
How about Mercedes?
Nope. Just the Beetle. You're not running a posh car like a Mercedes.
I'm more into bmw anyway
@Blitzkrieg_88 Told you, you're a racist.
Healthier? Definitely. No fat@ss burgers with big butts. Hotter? Not sure. They definitely dressed much nicer. Dresses and skirts and heels. No slutty outfits and flip-flops that annoy your ears.
Yeah no, and the only thing I want to do to number 3 is put a bullet in her chest and watch her bleed to death, nazi fucks
Number 3 is probably a French woman lol
So she's a fascist and traitor to her people as well.
Probably no different than English women during ww2 while their men went off to fight in 1939 by 1943 they were bouncing on American GI cock, when their husbands came back in 1945 they found they had a two year old child.
AGREE, people in general were healthier and hotter in the past (men and women) right now in America the obesity rate is about to reach 40%, nobody dresses nice anymore, and people are just giving up on themselves.
Some of it might be because in the past, Obesity was incredibly uncommon... Reason being, back then, we ate the RIGHT foods! No pasteurization, no good bacteria in food and no Soda. We ate REAL food. We worked HARD. We took care of ourselves!
Milks been pasteurized worldwide since late 1800s. Early 1900s in America. Pasteurization kills micobacterium responsible for deadly illnesses passed to humans through infected milk. listeriosis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and brucellosis.
@Screenwriter Very True. However, it also kills the GOOD germs, as well!
That is a myth. Good microorganisms are not killed. ALL GERMS are bad. Flora and fauna may or may not be.
I would have to agree to this excluding Jessica Alba though
lol she is queen isn't she
@PrinceOfAljazeeeeraa agreed. One of the hottest white women that ever lived.
I disagree, I think such pics were pretty rare those days!
Without saying those girls are not pretty, of course.
Well they didn't have stupid tv shows to binge and were generally more active and more feminine so... Probably.
Nowadays they are just trying to get as close to skinny as possible and it gets to be too much.
Where do you live?
The depths of Hell.
They look like 12 year old boys in the first photo. Dunno why that's so incredibly hot to the guys of GAG.
Well they sure weren't as disgustingly fat, if that's what you mean. But it doesn't automatically mean they were healthier, because a lot more people smoked in the past too, more so than now.
No, I just think we see more extremes nowadays : we see people that are more fit but we also see more obese people. I think the average is relatively the same but I think we have more extremes nowadays.
Not just women, everyone was more active and healthy begore the rise of technology.
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