# How is it that women didn't all strangle men in the 1960s?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 18, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-women-didnt-all-strangle-men-in-the-1960s/1022214 "2025-08-18T13:35:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-women-didnt-all-strangle-men-in-the-1960s/1022214/161 "2025-08-30T23:58:29Z")

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In the episode titled “Where There’s Smoke” Greg plays the guitar well, and Mike says that the talent must be inherited - and Carol replies that Greg must have gotten it from her side of the family. Hmm.

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**Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-women-didnt-all-strangle-men-in-the-1960s/1022214/162 "2025-08-31T06:15:31Z")

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> [@eschereal](#):
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> After years of waiting in vain for her lover to return, Carol accepted Mike’s offer of a home back in LA, and found that escaping the sad association that Hawai’i had become for her was a tremendous relief.

Things didn’t go very well when she returned, either. I wouldn’t be surprised if Carol never goes to Hawaii again.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-women-didnt-all-strangle-men-in-the-1960s/1022214/163 "2025-09-29T01:47:27Z")

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> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> If you’re curious, googling “Mar-a-Lago Face” will return a host of articles and illustrations on it. It’s why Kristi Noem, Melania, Kimberly G. (and even Matt Gaetz) have a similar look.

It’s on the front page of Wikipedia today:

Did you know … that **[Mar-a-Lago face](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face)** is a plastic surgery trend popular in Donald Trump’s entourage?

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-women-didnt-all-strangle-men-in-the-1960s/1022214/164 "2025-09-29T02:02:04Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> It’s on the front page of Wikipedia today:

Cool! thanks!

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-women-didnt-all-strangle-men-in-the-1960s/1022214/165 "2025-09-29T02:33:08Z")

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Like Kimberly Gargoyle?

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**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-women-didnt-all-strangle-men-in-the-1960s/1022214/166 "2025-12-08T16:23:20Z")

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> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> That Ooh face article was hilarious though.
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> I think I would have lost my shit in the 60s. I’m barely hanging onto it in 2025.

how it that different from the duck-face you (still) see in 9/10 selfies?

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