The good wife's guide
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I asked my wife if I should print this out for her... the response was less than friendly.
That's very funny, and frankly I'd love to have a nice meal waiting for me every day when I get home, but as a father of two girls I'm actually pretty glad that's not the world we live in anymore.
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At my older brother's place, it's taped to the fridge.
He lives alone now, I assume!
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Somehow I don't think that my lovely wife would be impressed...
I think this article is a hoax. It apparently got circulated around a lot of workplaces in the 1980s.
He still lives with a woman.
Mom?
Sometimes I'm so glad I don't live in the 1950's. This thing is like those Victorian-era woman's guide to "doing your wifely duty" (read between the lines).
Ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
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Negative.
Don't all men and women, in the depths of their soul, wish life was like the media portrayed it back in the 50's. I was born in the early 60's, and it seems that my parents tried very hard to protect me from what was really going on back then. Of course, reality tends to be a little different. Today, reality is much more visible: on TV, Youtube, movies, neighborhoods, and at home. As a society, we seem to have lost some of the innocence and naiveté we had back then. Of course, our behavior has changed very little, just the public knowledge of what we do is more obvious. Oh well, maybe I can show this to my wife. Think she will buy it?
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The 50s were not normal. They were abnormal. The second world war had changed society forever. People wanted to get the women back home, out of the factories, pretend that no one had been fooling around during all the war, etc..
Drop back to the early 1940s, the 1930s, the 1920s. The message of the 1950s is a deliberate throw-back message. Life has always been more complex than the TV shows of the 1950s and early 1960s indicated.
Drop back to the early 1940s, the 1930s, the 1920s. The message of the 1950s is a deliberate throw-back message. Life has always been more complex than the TV shows of the 1950s and early 1960s indicated.
I remember that... They made a big deal on the radio about this maybe 10 years ago... It reminds me of Mad Men...
It's likely a hoax. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Wife's_Guide
and the John Bull cover in 1957: http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/gallery/gallery_images/John Bull/7 John Bull cover.jpg
and the John Bull cover in 1957: http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/gallery/gallery_images/John Bull/7 John Bull cover.jpg
If you were a white man with a stable job who lived in a small town, I'm sure the 50's rocked.
If you were a woman, of another ethnicity, or handicapped, it wasn't as rosy.
As a handicapped man with an Indian SWMBO, I'm lucky to live now. But sometimes I wish there was a corner drugstore that sold fountain drinks, shakes, etc.
If you were a woman, of another ethnicity, or handicapped, it wasn't as rosy.
As a handicapped man with an Indian SWMBO, I'm lucky to live now. But sometimes I wish there was a corner drugstore that sold fountain drinks, shakes, etc.
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