There is an interview series on youtube, can't remember where, of people who grew up in the 50s. It sounds like a miserable place. There is a reason that housewives were prescribed quaaludes in record numbers and consumed so much alcohol. In most places, women wouldn't be allowed to open bank accounts or get a credit card alone for another two to three decades.
If people want to live one place or another, wear this or that clothing, engage in various aesthetic enactments, etc, that is one thing, but when we whitewash the underlying conditions that were the milieu in which the adopted proto-aesthetic formed, we have to be careful that this does no rehabilitate those underlying conditions.
BDSM is at little risk of this due to the nature of consent that is welded into the community, the attempt to maintain a firm division between fantasy and reality. Palingenetic fantasies of bygone eras, however, seem to have much less of a check in place against their actualization; in fact, their actualization, I would say, is exactly the goal of a certain minority who holds such views. It is the difference between a safe practitioner of BDSM and someone who uses BDSM language as a cover for abuse.