the thing is though - peoples perceptions change

take that Sheep Crook and Black Dog song.

My sympathies are with the woman every time. She doesn't want to live in a hut on the moors; freezing cold, starving to death, never meeting anyone from one week to the next....

Conditions in service were shitty by all accounts, but they must have seemed like a career opportunity compared to life in the hut.

Yet I always think the songwriter expects us to say, the heartless bitch! why didn't she stick by this fine fellow. He's got a long walking stick and dog, what more could a woman want.