Guide to being a good housewife

[Alonzo]

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1623/housewiferl5.jpg

[AnnEsthesia]

ROFL! I love the "don't complain if he goes out to eat without you" and the "don't complain if he comes home late or stays out all night" lol. Nice.

[moses2792796]

Damn...modern women suck!

[AlanC]

Yep, the fifties were truely a golden age.....:thumbsup:

[Pookie]

Oh hell, that would never work. My hubby is lucky he hasn't had his brains bashed in by a 2X4.
Purrs,
Pookie

[PostmodernProphet]

Oh hell, that would never work. My hubby is lucky he hasn't had his brains bashed in by a 2X4.
Purrs,
Pookie


since you haven't done it, you obviously 'know your place'........

[moses2792796]

If she gets too far out of line we can always send her to the institution and let them beat her self-esteem down some! :)

[Professor]

It's amazing how things have changed, if you told any modern woman that she would probably retort with a smart ass remark or laugh in your face.

Of course I do think men still want their wives to be "gay" but that means something different now.

[Pookie]

LMAO!!
I have changed my stance on this. A truly good housewife checks the batteries in the smoke alarms when her hubby offers to fix dinner.
Purrs,
Pookie

[Keith Hamburger]

LMAO!!
I have changed my stance on this. A truly good housewife checks the batteries in the smoke alarms when her hubby offers to fix dinner.
Purrs,
Pookie


Do you have a story you're withholding?

Keith

[underdawg]

Those 50s housewives sound more like part sex slave and indentured servants. Looking at that picture you see that poor woman wearing high heals to fix dinner. When I was a kid my grandmother took off her shoes and I saw her deformed bent crooked toes and I said, "Grandma, how did your feet get into such bad shape?" She told me it it came from years of wearing high healed shoes. When I see a woman trying to walk in high heals they remind me of some kind of big crippled bird. That 50s housewife might as well put a sign on her back that says kick me harder.

[AlanC]

That was hardly the picture of a 50's housewife. June Cleaver was a figment of a writer's immagination, not a role model.

[sam]

Luckily I have seen that before.

The first time I had to be taken to the ER because I was laughing so hard I nearly coughed up a lung through my nose.

:ecstatic:

[preservanation]

It' amazing to me that women would behave in such a way just because an article in Housekeeping Monthly said so.
Same thing with men, we are told to act a certain way just because the PC police and NOW tell us to.
This propaganda only work on weak-minded/willed individuals.
If you go around trying to define yourself, obtain your identity and make people like you based on what others say, you get what you deserve.
Ooooo, social pressure made me do it. Whaaaaah.

If that was the case we would all be dead because we would not have followed Moms advice. We would all have jumped off of some building "just because Johnny did".

[sam]

Preservation,

Women did not believe those 'guidelines' because they appeared in an article. They were taught those guidelines from their own mothers, and it was simply the norm back then that wasn't questioned. It really wasnt a choice.

My grandmother used to iron SOCKS!!!! (as well as sheets, sweaters, underwear). I don't even purchase clothes that require
ironing, and during the holidays when I use Christmas tablecloths, I smooth out the wrinkles or use a runner and placemats. :D

[preservanation]

So, Women crippled themselves with shoes and corsets because they were told to?
What ever happened to free will?
It's not like Asians who are , or were, forced to bind their feet.
No one in America, to my knowlegde, ever was forced by law to do anything like that.
"The Stepford Wives, was fiction, if I remember correctly.

[sam]

So, Women crippled themselves with shoes and corsets because they were told to?
What ever happened to free will?
It's not like Asians who are , or were, forced to bind their feet.
No one in America, to my knowlegde, ever was forced by law to do anything like that.
"The Stepford Wives, was fiction, if I remember correctly.



So, I am guessing you have never worn a tie or a tux? ;)

[preservanation]

You guess wrong.
Yes, I have worn a tie or tux, usually at the same time, with brown shoes.

[sam]

And you find ties comfortable? To me, I would feel like I was being choked. I see a lot of men often tugging at them, but still they wear them.

I think you are making a distinction between custom and choice. Those were the customs at that time. I'm sure many customs (thankfully, like those in this article) go the evolutionary route and in time die off when enough people decide they are worthless, or at this point, absurd.

[preservanation]

But the beginning of this thread categorized the past norms for women as some sort of abuse and induced mutilation.
I'm saying if it was that bad, why didn't women get rid of them sooner, because their Mom or husband told them to?
This makes no sense.
If they didn't want to do it, they shouldn't have.
They were just as much at fault for going along with it as others were for pressuring them to do so.

[moses2792796]

Precisely why we shouldn't have complete freedom, without it women would still be good housewives.

[preservanation]

Moses, you goof!
I know it's early but can you at least try to approach some semblance of reason?

[AnnEsthesia]

Preservation, you seem to think that social pressure is just an easy thing to cast off. It is not. Any woman who deviated from the norm, especially back then, would have the weight of social scorn and criticism descend upon her. Even today, women try hard to conform to the societal norms out of a need to feel accepted. The difference is that the woman who deviates and wears black nail polish will not be ostracized and be unable to find gainful employment, etc etc.

[moses2792796]

Moses, you goof!
I know it's early but can you at least try to approach some semblance of reason?


I was attempting humour again, I think I'll just stay away from that field from now on. For some reason people get annoyed everytime I make jokes?

[preservanation]

Moses, you goof!
I know it's early but can you at least try to approach some semblance of reason?


I was attempting humour again, I think I'll just stay away from that field from now on. For some reason people get annoyed everytime I make jokes?
Actually, I knew that.
I was responding in kind, you big goof.[hr]
Preservation, you seem to think that social pressure is just an easy thing to cast off. It is not. Any woman who deviated from the norm, especially back then, would have the weight of social scorn and criticism descend upon her. Even today, women try hard to conform to the societal norms out of a need to feel accepted. The difference is that the woman who deviates and wears black nail polish will not be ostracized and be unable to find gainful employment, etc etc.
Really?
Black nail polish?
I know this girl who has so many piercings, her face whistles when she runs.
She works at the bank.

I don't think there is undue social pressure for her to do this to her body, but she still does.
I think she wants to look like a tackle box exploded in her vicinity.

[AnnEsthesia]

Thank you for making my point, Pres. Appreciate it.

[preservanation]

You're welcome?....

[PostmodernProphet]

I think she wants to look like a tackle box exploded in her vicinity.

lol, new pick up line....."so, what were you doing in the hardware store when it exploded?".......

[Pookie]

OMG, that's funny.
I like saying I used to be in shape but I backed into an air hose sometime in my late 30s.
Ooops.
Purrs,
Pookie

[jafar00]

OMG, that's funny.
I like saying I used to be in shape but I backed into an air hose sometime in my late 30s.
Ooops.
Purrs,
Pookie


Now there's something to think about. Why is it that you can easily maintain a fit, trim body until you turn 30, then it goes downhill from there? Damn the body clock. :evil:

[preservanation]

So... women were, by gender roll pressure, forced to bow to social norms?
Well, how many men have ended up in the gutter bleeding from five orifices defending his girl after she spouted some nonsense in public to the wrong person?
That has got to stop...she started it, she can take the vicious beating from Bruno.

[PostmodernProphet]

OMG, that's funny.
I like saying I used to be in shape but I backed into an air hose sometime in my late 30s.
Ooops.
Purrs,
Pookie


Now there's something to think about. Why is it that you can easily maintain a fit, trim body until you turn 30, then it goes downhill from there? Damn the body clock. :evil:


and if you run into that air hose when MOST of your body is fit enough to withstand the pressure, you get an excuse to combine this thread with the one about Terlew's girlfriend....

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[preservanation]

She would be good to have around in case your spare goes flat.

[Stoner]

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[Pookie]

Y'all are wrong. A good housewife checks the batteries in the smoke detectors when hubby offers to cook dinner.
Purrs,
Pookie