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| mulegirl |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 2:39:32 PM
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| Amie C. |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 10:47:53 AM
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp
I started looking for contemporary reactions, and found that this article may never have actually been printed. It may be a bit of an exaggeration, although not unfounded in truth. |
| Mikki |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 08:43:15 AM
I agree Belle, staying out all night if he's not fishing! I don't think so.... lol I do strive to make our home feel like a santuary for my family to come home to. A "soft place" to fall. I want my family to feel a sense of renewal and peacefulness when they make it to our little "arc of safety" we call home. A place we can renew our strength and prepare for another day.
~~Blessings, Mikki Jo
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| Amie C. |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 08:26:58 AM
Everybody reprints this article...but nobody ever reprints the letters to the editor that ran in the following issue! I'd like to see what the response was from 1955 housewives. This certainly doesn't match up with the attitudes of other women I see writing about home and family in the 1950s. Can you imagine Shirley Jackson writing this? Or Betty McDonald? |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 07:52:25 AM
I think some of the above is good advice but some of it is hogwash. Late for supper or stay out all night?? I don't think so.
I heard a story about the Zigfields.(Zigfield Follies) Every morning Mrs Zigfield would get up an hour before Mr Zigfield. She would put on makeup and fix her hair, and dress in the prettiest thing she had in the closet. That is how she looked when Mr Z got up and went to work. He worked with beautiful women all day long. But he remembered his wife being beautiful that morning and he never looked twice at the women he worked with. They were supposed to have had a long and very happy marriage. She was the one that went the extra,but I'm sure the rewards were great.
This only works if it goes both ways. Some men are S.O.B. no matter how you treat them. |
| ranchmama |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 07:32:56 AM
This reminds me of Mona Lisa Smile.. the movie with Juliet Roberts. The one girl who married and had her perfect house, perfect life, didn't question her husband or ask him were he went.. He was cheating on her. If you don't talk with your husband, he'll go somewhere else! NOt every convo we have to have is a nag or a complaint. How 'bout giving my boring day a lift or cleaning my 'little treasures' up for me?
This is all laughable to us now, and I'm glad it is.
Elise
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 07:03:54 AM
ROFL, good one Marian!
Teresa Sue
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| dutchy |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 05:02:27 AM
LOL, and EEEWWW I am glad I am not married, double LOL!! I would not treat my hubby as king, unless I was the QUEEN!!:-)
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 02:26:34 AM
yes, I saw that movie...that's what modern times are like.
Linda
in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
We all get heavier as we get older, because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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| ranchetta |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 11:38:29 PM
Oh, Gee, I'm getting all warm and fuzzy...........NOT! Somehow this reminds me of one of my favorite
movies "The First Wives Club". Did anyone see this and what did you think?
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| Alee |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 8:49:00 PM
I think just like within any ideal and within any era there are extremes. I am sure there were housewives that followed this ideal to a T; but I think there had to be a large percentage of the population that found a balance between the two. I like the idea of taking 15 minutes to rest before he comes home- can someone please explain this concept to my toddler?
Alee
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 8:47:31 PM
I grew up in the 50's and my mother never treated my dad like that! She had to work outside the home and worked just as hard as he did. My husband's grandmother was the Good Housekeeping housewife. When I was home full-time I always tried to have the house picked up, the kitchen clean, and supper at least cooking. But as for the rest - I don't think so. When I worked outside the home then everything was split 50/50 - or that's how it should have been. Mostly is was 90/10 with my part being the 90!
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| C.W. |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 7:17:38 PM
Ha my DH printed that article and posted on our fridge a while back. A few of the points have some validity, I do try to meet him at the door and have the house tidy, but the rest of it is crap. |
| Miss2Missus |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 5:45:08 PM
i have to admit, this is pretty over the top! i wonder if it was a man or woman how wrote it. It's a shame that a house wife has always been seen as the lesser of the two, esp when keeping a house running properly is really hard work.
But what also is interesting is the difference between our and Asian cultures. Because most Asian families still operate similarly to this even now in our modern times.
Karen ^_^
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 5:29:47 PM
eeeewwwwwwwww, just makes you want to cringe, doesnt' it. No wonder poison was the weapon of choice for women, hehehehehe.
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
Planting Zone 4
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
| Sheep Mom 2 |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 4:54:05 PM
So much for the good old days! Thank heaven it wasn't like that in my reality. A Good wife always knows her place!? Good grief. No wonder they called their wife "the little woman". I remember some of the old guys when I was a kid calling their wives their "bitter half" gee---I wonder why.
Sheri |
| CountryBorn |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 4:23:08 PM
Anyone nostalgic for the "wonderful 50's" should read that article. They'd get over that real fast!!
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
| auntgrandma1 |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 4:02:48 PM
well, that's enough to make a woman gag.! LOL. My parents lived like that for years. If dad had his way they still would. My hubby would love it, but it ain't happening here. I work too and that just will not balance. And I love him but still. ICK!!! |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 3:26:31 PM
I know SOME men would, Linda! How disgusting to think that women were made to think they were not only subordinate but inferior to their husbands - and through a WOMEN'S magazine! Ick.
Farmgirl Sister #35
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - May 10 2009 : 2:45:00 PM
Wow! talk about a spoiled KING! No wonder women suffer from depression....being a slave with no rights would make anyone depressed. Thank God for our modern lives.
I wonder if men had their way they would still be treated that way. ;-(
Linda
in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
We all get heavier as we get older, because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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