The Good Wife's Guide

[Metamorpho1977]

This was published in 1955. I wonder what if any of it has changed of it since then. Ladies of the Hype, I especially encourage your opinions.

 

[Prison Mike]

I like the "Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one your duties is to provide it" advice.

 

[AndThePickles]

Yeah, I've heard of it. I think there was even already a thread on it here at one point.

 

[Ol'Canucklehead]

"You have no right to question him."

"A good wife always knows her place."





BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I would show this to my fiance but I fear the harsh backhand that would come if I even smirked.

 

[Dkim]

Welcome to Stepford.....

 

[Majic Walrus]

So, what happened in the past 50 some years that brought us into where we are now?

 

[Lord Valumart]

So, what happened in the past 50 some years that brought us into where we are now?

women got the vote

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I think all that's left off the list is "Never complain about headaches or not being in the mood, when he wants to have sex, it is your duty to fulfill that need."

 

[Manic]

So, what happened in the past 50 some years that brought us into where we are now?

Women in the workplace. Can't wait on your husband hand & foot when you're both going to work and coming home wiped out. Couples share household duties now.

Also, I don't believe for a moment that wives ever let their husbands stay out all night without questioning them. Even wives on old sitcoms would chew out their husbands when they messed up. Why do you think Ralph Kramden was always beating his wife? She called him out on his bull constantly. And nowadays, women aren't afraid to leave their abusive husbands. Back in the day, divorce was more embarrassing than getting the living snot beat out of you for asking why your husband ate dinner without you and didn't call.

 

[Anita18]

I like the "Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one your duties is to provide it" advice.

Women do look good in ass chaps, don't you agree?

women got the vote

And the pill. And full-time jobs.

Although there are some guys who are still clueless about the whole "equality in the house" business. But it's not my relationship and therefore not my place to argue. At least they're just clueless and not actively evil misogynist pigs.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Another rule - "Don't bother him while he's watching the game"

 

[Prison Mike]

I watched an episode of Mad Men last night. I really wish I was a young upper-class white male living in the 1950s...

 

[BlackLantern]

I watched an episode of Mad Men last night. I really wish I was a young upper-class white male living in the 1950s...

Mad Men is set in '59 or 60?? Don Draper is the man....and probably getting someone pregnant right now

 

[Manic]

I watched an episode of Mad Men last night. I really wish I was a young upper-class white male living in the 1950s...

If I was living in the 1950s, I'd probably want to be an upper class white male, too. They were the only people having a good time in those days, as I understand it.

 

[Prison Mike]

Mad Men is set in '59 or 60?? Don Draper is the man....and probably getting someone pregnant right now

I think it's starts in the late 50s. that's what I was assuming.

Don Draper could get a chick pregnant just by staring at her! He's that good!

If I was living in the 1950s, I'd probably want to be an upper class white male, too. They were the only people having a good time in those days, as I understand it.

yeah, I wouldn't want to be anyone else. I see how they're treated. not nicely.

 

[Dark Helmet]

Where is the she walks around naked every single time both are alone rule ?

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I think it's starts in the late 50s. that's what I was assuming.

Don Draper could get a chick pregnant just by staring at her! He's that good!

yeah, I wouldn't want to be anyone else. I see how they're treated. not nicely.

Actually it starts in 1960. The was a big plot of Kennedy/Nixon election in the first season and that was before elections lasted 2-3 years.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

Listen to him, Remember his topics of conversation are more important than yours.

And dont question him even if he stays out all night.

Nice

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Women do look good in ass chaps, don't you agree?


And the pill. And full-time jobs.

Although there are some guys who are still clueless about the whole "equality in the house" business. But it's not my relationship and therefore not my place to argue. At least they're just clueless and not actively evil misogynist pigs.

There was a time when "gay" didn't mean homosexual. Gay used to mean happy.

 

[Anita18]

There was a time when "gay" didn't mean homosexual. Gay used to mean happy.

Yes, I'm well aware of that. I figured someone pointed that one out because of the "modern" definition, and I was running with it.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

yeah. times were simpler back then. a good wife always knew her place.

 

[Anita18]

yeah. times were simpler back then. a good wife always knew her place.

Observations like this always skeeve me out. But then again I'm a chick.

Although I wouldn't say no to being a housewife, but if the wife has her own full-time job, the husband should pull his own weight around the house too. Or hire a maid. Whatever works and feels equal for both parties.

 

[Manic]

What I find amusing about the concept of the happy housewife is that it assumes that all married couples can be sustained by the husband's income alone. Even back in the 50s, poorer families needed both parents to work. This is especially true in rural areas; you'd never find a farmer's wife who spent all of her time cleaning the house while there were crops and/or animals to tend to.

50's-60's television created a lie that arose during the end of WWII and the height of the Cold War as a way to give families a sense of normalcy and order. Nobody actually lived that way, and those that did had some dirty little secrets they were hiding from the neighbors. Arguments, spousal abuse, alcoholism, drug abuse, sexless marriages, secret affairs, gay lovers, psychological problems, crippling debt, child abuse, racial tensions, ect.

Times didn't get complicated. People just stopped keeping up appearances. They gave up the lie. My grandparents have been happily married for 50 years, but they've always bickered, my grandmother has always had to work, and they're a couple of black people from the South (where there certainly wasn't much to be happy about). My grandfather didn't worry about the Olsen account. He worried about whether or not he should fire the white boy who's been giving him lip at the construction site because he doesn't like being subordinate to a negro.


Sorry. I get kinda passionate and rant-ready when someone talks about the 50s. I've got a whole 'nother rant about how kids were treated, and the real trouble teenagers got into that people think only started over the past 2 or 3 decades.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Observations like this always skeeve me out. But then again I'm a chick.

Although I wouldn't say no to being a housewife, but if the wife has her own full-time job, the husband should pull his own weight around the house too. Or hire a maid. Whatever works and feels equal for both parties.

I'm just kidding. I was just referring to that part at the end of the list. I wouldn't dream of making my fiancee do all the work around the house without my help.

 

[BlackLantern]

Times didn't get complicated. People just stopped keeping up appearances. They gave up the lie.

Manic...this post is full of **** Yeah!!!!

people stopped ********tin' is all