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A friend of mine sent me this "genuine article from 1955". I thought it was interesting......enjoy

(again PIC WARNING!)

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How people look on these sort of erras as better then today (all the religious people swooning over the "good ol days") I will never know

How people look on these sort of erras as better then today (all the religious people swooning over the "good ol days") I will never know

I hear that where I live, and I live in the south. Kinda sad.

That is awesome. I've been looking for a slave, and now I know where to get one: the Fifties.

And conservatives wonder why they get a bad rep...

That is awesome. I've been looking for a slave, and now I know where to get one: the Fifties.
Doc did it, you can too.

It sounds so ABSURD, that it's almost unreal.

I know time in the fifties were shit but somethimes it seems so off the wall.

That bit in the pic about the wife should "speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice"
wtf?
Back in the 50s they expected their women to sound like Barry White?
That's just weird.



Also, what are those kids doing? It looks like they're tearing a puppy dog to pieces.

Be a little gay and a bit more interesting for him. His boring day needs a lift and one of your duties is to provide it for him.
That's awesome. I's love to come home to my wife macking some hot chick she picked up at the supermarket talking 'bout, "I thought this would make yoru day a little more interesting." :)

You'd be getting a "lift" somewhere, eh? That was just the time. In less blunt terms, that's the same kind of advice they give customer service types these days. Bit of a shame it's over, but what can you do? (Before you disembowel me, ladies, I'm just kidding. Even so...)

if you want a detailed analysis of the 50's situation for women, read or search for betty friedmans 'feminine mystique'. its crazy stuuf

Ahh the fifites....

*day dreams*

Yay for snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.htm

Really funny flash series set in the 1950's

http://www.icebox.com/index.php?id=show&showid=s7

How people look on these sort of erras as better then today (all the religious people swooning over the "good ol days") I will never know
Funny. I don't remember none. Things just as bad as those that happen today went on, they were just better at covering them up. :(

Funny. I don't remember none. Things just as bad as those that happen today went on, they were just better at covering them up. :(
Yeah I agree ... I was not trying to say they were wose or better just that people have a tendancy to only remember the better parts.

Hell even with the short amount of time I have been here (23 years) I still seem to remember the good old days of my childhood ...

A lot of that is good advice though.

Yay for snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.htm
And liberals wonder why they get a bad rep...

My woman knows what will happen to her if she forgets to clean. I find boiling bacon grease to be a good "woman cleanser".

Oh, come on! This is satire. It's got to be satire. It is satire?

My woman knows what will happen to her if she forgets to clean. I find boiling bacon grease to be a good "woman cleanser".
MMMMMMMMMM, bacon.

*drools*

I so would have become a lesbian in the 50s.

I think articles like this one were probably a backlash from the late 40's, when men were getting back from combat duty to find out that their jobs were taken by women. I guess they were trying to put Jeannie back in her bottle (or just trying to make her stop showing her bellybutton.)

How people look on these sort of erras as better then today (all the religious people swooning over the "good ol days") I will never knowWhat surprises me is that some women talk like this too...

Yep. It's a man's world.:cool:

That's awesome. I's love to come home to my wife macking some hot chick she picked up at the supermarket talking 'bout, "I thought this would make yoru day a little more interesting." :)

Heh, that's what my first reaction was :p

Yay for snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.htm

Beaten to that, too.

Why is it that everyone posts something even remotely unbelievable, it's 90% of the time rebunked by snopes?

Beaten to that, too.

Why is it that everyone posts something even remotely unbelievable, it's 90% of the time rebunked by snopes?
Occams Razor - cutting all the fun out of life for ~300 years.

That bit in the pic about the wife should "speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice"
wtf?
Back in the 50s they expected their women to sound like Barry White?
That's just weird.


come on now dont you want you woman to just come up to you and go

"awwwwwwww yeah, that's right baby."

That's awesome. I's love to come home to my wife macking some hot chick she picked up at the supermarket talking 'bout, "I thought this would make yoru day a little more interesting." :)

IN a perfect world my friend......

Oh yeah, this same article is pasted up in my office near the microwave. It's mostly women working in the building. We all have a good laugh about it.

Occams Razor - cutting all the fun out of life for ~300 years.

Closer to 650, I think you'll find. Of course it should be noted in passing that the principle of the razor is based on a probabilistic assumption, and so is often misrepresented.

Yay for snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.htm

Undetermined.

And liberals wonder why they get a bad rep...

... and, also, why conservatives can't read.

[QUOTE=Minoriteeburg]A friend of mine sent me this "genuine article from 1955". I thought it was interesting......enjoy

I Know this- We did the Age of Innocence for English and it was given out! lol everyone got offended - its an all girls school

Yes, my darling husband(s), would you like me to give up my independence and individuality and serve all of you nice hot meals that you deserve? :rolleyes: :p

Yes, my darling husband(s), would you like me to give up my independence and individuality and serve all of you nice hot meals that you deserve? :rolleyes: :p
Not if you are going to do it with that additude!

Not if you are going to do it with that additude!
You got a problem with my attitude?

Yes, my darling husband(s), would you like me to give up my independence and individuality and serve all of you nice hot meals that you deserve? :rolleyes: :p

Nah, I can just make some pasta. I'm much more intrested in this "Be a little gay and a little more interesting. His boring day may need a lift." business...

You got a problem with my attitude?
Yes.

Now clean my shoes woman!

If your husband comes home to a sanctuary, he is going to treat you as a queen, not a slave. Of course, the ideas in that article assume that the wife is home during the day. In a home with two full-time workers, it wouldn't work. I don't work outside the home, but my job is just as important as my husband's. If things are orderly when he gets home, he wants to be here with us. Often encouraging me to take time for myself. If things are falling apart and disorderly he wants to escape with the guys. Not really a surprise, when things are disorderly I want to escape too. There is nothing demeaning in running a well-ordered household. I find it disgraceful that young women are taught that they cannot be fulfilled without having a career outside the house. Is it any wonder that people are stressed and children are badly behaved, when no one is running the home. When both husband and wife work, then together they are trying to do three jobs, including caring for the home. And can you really expect children to take on your values when they are shipped off to daycare and school to be raised. Families have no time together because women are too busy trying to be fulfilled. When men and women have defined roles (not necessarily the same for each family) then they can each find fulfillment in doing their own job the best they can. I admit, that article seems a bit extreme. I wouldn't use it as the basis for teaching my daughter how to be a wife. But, the idea that a women can find joy in caring for her husband and meeting the needs of her family is not something to be laughed at or ashamed of.