Re: The Good Wife Guide

Article View: alt.consumers

Article #597

#597

From: Anthony Matonak
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:56

32 lines
3273 bytes

bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
>  Anthony Matonak <anthonym40@nothing.like.comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>>It's an urban legend. No truth to it in the least.
>>http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.htm
> 
> Hardly no truth. Quite a bit of truth, actually; the Snopes article to 
> which you refer has this to say about the piece:
> 
> "Whether the piece at hand is a genuine excerpt from a yet-undiscovered 
> home economics textbook, it is nonetheless a relatively accurate 
> reflection of the mainstream vision of a woman's appointed role in 
> post-war America, as evinced by such educational training films as "The 
> Home Economics Story" (made familiar to a whole new generation of 
> youngsters through its spoofing on the popular Mystery Science Theater 
> 3000 program)."

Educational training films like these are more propaganda than fact.
They are laughable on MST 3K simply because of the amazingly blatant
lies they try to seriously pass off as fact.

It's like the old 'duck and cover' films. An amazing piece of fiction
that made those who are completely ignorant of nuclear bombs feel safer.
Today, most anyone would find it laughable that they earnestly proposed
hiding under a desk as a form of nuclear protection.

So, is it any wonder than one piece of fiction accurately represents
another piece of fiction?

Anthony
-- 
"Do not look directly at the flash."

Technical Details

Message-ID: <EZudnQmUoYw_onDZnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@comcast.com>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail

References:

<bearclaw-CD1053.01392123082006@news.supernews.com> <5sqdnUbMiO_4j3DZnZ2dnUVZ_oCdnZ2d@comcast.com> <bearclaw-0FFFA6.22075523082006@news.supernews.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Thread: 10f73f,4320a0aafc8a69f5
X-Google-Thread: 11474a,4320a0aafc8a69f5
X-Google-Thread: 106595,4320a0aafc8a69f5
X-Google-Thread: 107518,4320a0aafc8a69f5
X-Google-Thread: f6c48,4320a0aafc8a69f5
X-Google-Attributes: gid10f73f,gid11474a,gid106595,gid107518,gidf6c48,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:56:50 -0500
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:56:46 -0700
From: Anthony Matonak <anthonym40@nothing.like.comcast.net>
Reply-To:  anthonym40@nothing.like.comcast.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: alt.consumers,alt.consumers.experiences,ba.consumers,misc.consumers,misc.consumers.frugal-living
Subject: Re: The Good Wife Guide
References: <bearclaw-CD1053.01392123082006@news.supernews.com> <5sqdnUbMiO_4j3DZnZ2dnUVZ_oCdnZ2d@comcast.com> <bearclaw-0FFFA6.22075523082006@news.supernews.com>
In-Reply-To: <bearclaw-0FFFA6.22075523082006@news.supernews.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-ID: <EZudnQmUoYw_onDZnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@comcast.com>
Lines: 32
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.130.131.95
X-Trace: sv3-5fy0n7Dvez1mKn4r2/CzjSHEXXeJwhYPyjKQhzGJa8AahgskVKnvjmFhLkBYpXfNXAGOvMVNKOr7ZAI!oVM8lwd31piY6NSPbVf1MHqFEvbegP53a0F8KXnPwtGmHHrB9MEdmu22KJwXAiyRZtrMlICRJjIz!p75NF4jpC3ro0254
X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net
X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.32

Reply to Parent Message