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studehdtp53 wrote:
> bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> > Ahh. Nothing like sitting in an easy chair by the fire, listening to
> > Joplin's "Solace" while sipping from a snifter of brandy and reading the
> > evening news after a hard day at the office.
> >
> > Nothing, perhaps, except that little extra thrown into the mix by the
> > little woman. Here is a guide to keep your 1950s man happy, ladies:
> >
> > <http://www.robinsweb.com/humor/good_wife.html>
>
>  My wife got this at work and passed it around. All of the women were
> quite PO'ed after reading it !
>   It is rather "Taliban" like---

    Yes, that was the 50s... a lot of it was really dreadful.
Taliban-like, for sure.
    I can only imagine how weird it seems to today's women.
    I was a teenager at the time articles like this were published.
Both the style and the suggestions of this one seem completely
authentic, except for the last two items on the list which appear to
have been added later, like maybe yesterday.
    At the time there were many articles like it, intended to convince
teens & young women that they needed to learn to be subservient in
order to stay married.  AFAICS, the big propaganda campaign at the time
was to counteract the experience of their mothers, the WW2 wives who
spent the war years raising children, running their own households,
and/or competently holding a "man's" job.  Propaganda and
opinion-moulding were necessary because their own mothers' example
showed that women could study, think, work, and run a household well.
Trying to retroactively convince those older women that they were dumb
and helpless certainly wasn't going to work.
     We younger women enthusiastically went for it at first, until many
of us slowly began to realize that we were, in fact, undereducated,
unemployable, unpaid servants with almost no financial status, and in
many states, few property right and sharply limited legal rights.
    ...And then the Sixties came.