1950's good house wife instructions

[Julia1996]

Dad was in charge in our house. He picked what colour washing up gloves he wanted

Lol. 😂😂

[Jessica]

Wow. Just....wow. I could totally see Tristan and Tyler liking the ideas in that article. My grandpa would absolutely love that article. I will have to show my grandma this so she can have a good laugh.

This was the first thing to come to my mind after reading the article!
Wow. Just ......wow.

[Julia1996]

I must have the part about fixing my makeup and putting on fresh clothes before Tristan gets home backward. I put on makeup and nice clothes before I go out of the house but not to just hang out at home or do stuff around the house. When Tristan gets home he usually gets me in a T-shirt and shorts and a ponytail. When we first started dating I never let him see me without makeup on but after a guy has seen you with bed head, sleep drool and slobber dried all over the side of your face and raccoon eyes from the last traces of your eyemakeup that never come off, the mystery is pretty much over. And as anal as Tristan is about his oral hygiene, he has some serious morning breath so it's not like I want to encourage him to roll over and kiss me before he brushes his teeth anyway.

But I am careful about not vacuuming or making a lot of noise when Tristan gets home. I save vacuuming and making noise for when he, Tyler and my dad are watching football. Lol. Just kidding. If I did that I would be found hanging from a tree by the vacuum cord.

[RobynD]

While shocking and a bit funny for sure, things like this and the various sexist ads you see online from the past really horrify me too.

We've come a long way, but it has been a continual struggle to stop those that want to control us, own us, maintain unfair privilege over us, and make us less than. I support anyone taking the role they most love and are comfortable within their relationships as long as they are entirely self-determined, but when those things become ingrained in the culture and there is systemic patriarchy, I believe in resistance.

It's not just a man thing either, there were male feminists back then and even further back, and lots of women were and are still today complicit in sexism. Give me an egalitarian existence over the archy's any day.

[Julia1996]

Along with the gist of this thread, I always will remember the old televisions series re-runs such as:
Leave it to Beaver,  Father Knows Best, I Love Lucy, etc.

     The DAD was always in a suit when he came home from work and he wore his suit at the dinner table with well mannered kids all around the table, the family ate together and actually had cordial conversations with each other!!!

     The MOM was always seen in a house dress, never slacks, hair was always fixed up, etc.   And the dinner and the dinner table were always a perfect picture.

Just distant and fond memories for sure.
Danielle

Oh geeze, I forgot about the stupid table rule. For some weird reason my dad always made us eat at the table instead of in front of the TV like normal people. Sometimes I missed a good TV show being stuck at the table. Tyler and I could argue and my dad could tell us to shut up before he made us both sleep outside just as easily in front of the TV as at the table.

[GingerVicki]

I've been in worse situations.

Stepford Wife
1.) Used to describe a servile, compliant, submissive, spineless wife who happily does her husband's bidding and serves his every whim dutifully.

2.) Can also be used to describe a wife who is cookie-cutter & bland in appearance and behavior. Subscribes to a popular look and dares not deviate from that look.

This term is borrowed from the fictional suburb of Stepford, Connecticut in Ira Levin's 1972 novel, The Stepford Wives, later made into movies (in 1975 and 2004). In the story, men of this seemingly ideal town have replaced their wives with attractive robotic dolls devoid of emotion or thought.
1.) She's such a stepford wife, I've seen her greet her husband at the door after work with a beer and a kiss 4 days in a row!

2.) I just got back from the pta meeting, I've never seen so many stepford wives.

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