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[Birdsnest]

Article from 1955

http://www.cphassn.com/cartoons_4/GoodWife.jpg

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Reads like my life story. I do all these things for my man, plus I wear lingerie and high heels when I greet him at the door when he comes home. I am a good wife.

...Well, maybe not. I lie. Interesting you post this. I just mentioned to my hubby this morning, my father would pass his finger along ledges when he came home to make sure the house was clean.

[Groty]

That makes me ill.

:sick:

[Boneca]

Was that only 50 years ago? :shock:

"Remember his topics of conversation are more interesting than yours"...bwahaha! I read that as: "remember that it is rude to show that you may be more intelligent than your husband".

It makes me wonder how this ever came to happen. Brainwashing and social conditioning aside, why did women ever accept this? There must have been (actually no, I know there were) non-conformist women that thought all of this was just bullshit - why did noone listen to them?

[Vagabond]

Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice. Muahaha. Why get married?

[Werdna]

Hehehe... :)
I know I've seen this before somewhere but slightly different, so I searched the net. I found 3 different versions actually. Perhaps it shouldn't be taken so seriously...
Urban Legends Reference has a page on it, but its truthfullness is undetermined. This particular picture is faked though.
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.htm
Though I don't doubt that somebody actually could have written it. But it would most likely have been a woman.

[Birdsnest]

Ok, thanks Werdna, for the information about the possible fake. It did conclude that it was a relatively accurate reflection of mainstream vision of a womans appointed role, but they couldn't proove it was fake or real either way, and if you've ever seen the Donna Reed show, you'd probably agree. happppy

[Avengardh]

This is greatness, thanks for posting that ^-^

[Clara]

Well, folks this thread is a reminder to me, not to assume I know, from only a title. I'm sorry I missed it.

I got to read some very-old-at-the-time women's magazines, as a child (my mother's cousin had kept them, at her cottage - she found it strange, and slightly worrisome, that I was poring through them!) So, here's my two cents for the pot:

There are things written now (or TV shows, e.g.) that we look at - think whatever about them - and go on with normal life...

I'm not saying no woman would have taken an article like that seriously, at the time... I think maybe men of the day, if they picked it up and read it, would have wished real life were more like that. ("You know, honey, I read an interesting article...") :lol: