Current Events > Tips for women about their husbands, from a 1950 home ec textbook

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Lmao
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Now all they do is cuck you while you work

Being a little more gay for your husband when he gets home from work is good advice to make him happy now, but you'll need help from another housewife.
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Da good old days
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not gonna lie, it'd be pretty sweet to have a wife like that.
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It's like a maid you can bang!

Made sense back then since a man could comfortably provide for a full family while owning his house and car with just his job alone. Most jobs wouldnt hire women unless it was as a waitress or something.
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where is the part that explains how to cover bruises with make up for when you step out of line?
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Both men and women reported greater levels of happiness in the 1950s than they do today.
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yusiko posted...

where is the part that explains how to cover bruises with make up for when you step out of line?

In a different section of the book. This page is about looking after the husband not the wife.

The Admiral posted...

Both men and women reported greater levels of happiness in the 1950s than they do today.

So, should we go back to the way things were back then?
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Solar_Crimson posted...

The Admiral posted...

Both men and women reported greater levels of happiness in the 1950s than they do today.

So, should we go back to the way things were back then?

I see no issue.
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Sounds good to me.

Though ideally, there would have been another page from the other perspective saying things like "leave your muddy shoes at the door--she works hard to keep the place clean" and "try to entertain the children for a while, as they can be a handful throughout the day."

This is (part of) what marriage is all about: treating your spouse the absolute best possible.
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I see nothing wrong with this.
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Chicken posted...

Solar_Crimson posted...

The Admiral posted...

Both men and women reported greater levels of happiness in the 1950s than they do today.

So, should we go back to the way things were back then?

I see no issue.

So, we should go back to an era where women in most cases were not allowed to have jobs outside the house?
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MAGA, am i right?

Solar_Crimson posted...

Chicken posted...

Solar_Crimson posted...

The Admiral posted...

Both men and women reported greater levels of happiness in the 1950s than they do today.

So, should we go back to the way things were back then?

I see no issue.

So, we should go back to an era where women in most cases were not allowed to have jobs outside the house?

The problem wasn't letting women have jobs. I think it's complicated but a lot of that problem came from the destruction of the nuclear family.
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What peoole dont get is the wife has NO job.

Oh no, ya gotta cook dinner! Oh the pain
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Solar_Crimson posted...

The Admiral posted...

Both men and women reported greater levels of happiness in the 1950s than they do today.

So, should we go back to the way things were back then?

Being able to live your life on one income? Yeah sounds good.
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DiegoSanchez206 posted...

Solar_Crimson posted...

The Admiral posted...

Both men and women reported greater levels of happiness in the 1950s than they do today.

So, should we go back to the way things were back then?

Being able to live your life on one income? Yeah sounds good.

You have to undo a lot of population. I bet the square footage of residence per person has gone down since then. (though I just did some googling and this may not actually be the case since apparently house sizes have been growing)
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The problem wasn't that women gained the ability to work -- that was good -- it's that the changes this had on the economy pushed upon women the obligation to work. So, in 2018, even if a middle-class couple would be happy with that 1950s system, it's not an option. And for women who do work, they now have to deal with both the stresses of family life (which they did in the 50s) and the added stresses of work/career life.
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The Admiral posted...

The problem wasn't that women gained the ability to work -- that was good -- it's that the changes this had on the economy pushed upon women the obligation to work. So, in 2018, even if a middle-class couple would be happy with that 1950s system, it's not an option. And for women who do work, they now have to deal with both the stresses of family life (which they did in the 50s) and the added stresses of work/career life.

I never did figure out what economic changes brought the obligtion to work upon women but yeah, we don't really have the option anymore.
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A forgotten time when men were truly men.
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I'll put it the way my mother does about the subject.
Everything functioned just fine until all those *redacted* started burning their bras demanding "freedom" in the 60s. Now we're (women) all expected to have full time jobs and still do all the things we use to do. Cook, clean, take care of the kids, etc. All thanks to that baby boomer trash.
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Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

but not surprising. I've always said CE is more misogynistic

it's meant to be trolling, but some of these people really wouldn't mind if things went back to that way.

I think these are good tips for housewives. I mean, they're job is to... look after the house, after all. And the kids too if there are any.
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Fam_Fam posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

but not surprising. I've always said CE is more misogynistic

it's meant to be trolling, but some of these people really wouldn't mind if things went back to that way.

It's frustrating and childish and generally reads like a failure of imagination. I want to believe these are mostly younger posters, but know they aren't. I take comfort in the fact that while their misogyny unsettles me, modern social politics unsettles them. So we can all be unhappy together.
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Fam_Fam posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

but not surprising. I've always said CE is more misogynistic

it's meant to be trolling, but some of these people really wouldn't mind if things went back to that way.

It's pretty much the ideal marriage with a stay-at-home wife. What's the problem?
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Asherlee10 posted...

That's a good way to think about it.

I'm not so sure there is a lot of trolling going on in this topic in regards to those posts. But it could be a result of a gimmick that I'm not aware of for those CE'ers.

My post was specifically meant to be a joke at all the cuck talk :/

Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

Regardless of gender, if someone stays home while their spouse goes to work, I don't see the problem with expecting spouse at home to do household chores and manage the kids. I don't see an issue with book when you take that into consideration.
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Chicken posted...

Made sense back then since a man could comfortably provide for a full family while owning his house and car with just his job alone. Most jobs wouldnt hire women unless it was as a waitress or something.

It was probably easier to do that when the value of labor wasn't diminished by half the population entering the workforce.

Just saying, I suspect encouraging women to go to work like men may have had the unintended consequence of contributing to wage stagnation.
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People were so happy back then that there was no unrest or willingness to change, which is why we live exactly like we did back then.
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DifferentialEquation posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

Regardless of gender, if someone stays home while their spouse goes to work, I don't see the problem with expecting spouse at home to do household chores and manage the kids. I don't see an issue with book when you take that into consideration.

it is only a problem if the woman doesn't want to take care of the home. if she has aspirations to do something outside of the house, you shouldn't hold her back from pursuing those goals.
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Asherlee10 posted...

Vicious_Dios posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

but not surprising. I've always said CE is more misogynistic

it's meant to be trolling, but some of these people really wouldn't mind if things went back to that way.

It's pretty much the ideal marriage with a stay-at-home wife. What's the problem?

Yeah it seems ideal for the man.

That is if he wants a subservient wife.

Marriage is a two-way street. Both need to do their part. I provide for our home, while you oversee and ensure that it's upkept. That doesn't mean that I won't help out either. Nobody is being subservient in this deal.
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The Admiral posted...

The problem wasn't that women gained the ability to work -- that was good -- it's that the changes this had on the economy pushed upon women the obligation to work. So, in 2018, even if a middle-class couple would be happy with that 1950s system, it's not an option. And for women who do work, they now have to deal with both the stresses of family life (which they did in the 50s) and the added stresses of work/career life.

Bruh. There's this thing called division of labour. It ain't just one partner taking care of homelife responsibilities anymore, everybody has to pitch in.

To think that every home dynamic falls into one little box is asinine. A choice is better than no choice, and it always will be.
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I'd like to see these principles be applied in 2018, actually
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Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

Are you really surprised? CE is increasingly notoriously alt right.
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pres_madagascar posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

Are you really surprised? CE is increasingly notoriously alt right.

Idk there are a lot of SJWs here.
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pres_madagascar posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

Are you really surprised? CE is increasingly notoriously alt right.

Still seems like a liberal haven to me. Make a topic bashing Hillary or Obama and see how many defenders swarm to it.
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Forlorn_Ass posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

Are you really surprised? CE is increasingly notoriously alt right.

Idk there are a lot of SJWs here.

Ce is typically a quarter alt right, quarter sjw, quarter troll, and quarter normal functioning members of society.
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Asherlee10 posted...

DifferentialEquation posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

Regardless of gender, if someone stays home while their spouse goes to work, I don't see the problem with expecting spouse at home to do household chores and manage the kids. I don't see an issue with book when you take that into consideration.

That's not the problem I see with the article. A few snippets of things that suggest a subservient relationship:

"Take 15 minutes so you are refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking."

"[Prepare your children]... They are little treasures and he would like to see them playing the part."

"At the time of his arrival eliminate all noise of washer, drier, dishwasher, or vacuum... Be happy to see him."

So, what would be your c.o.a. about this then, because these little details, whether they may seem insignificant to you, display all the diffrence in the world.

We both did our jobs for that day. Is it really asking that much to come home a clean, and tranquil abode. Why do you think we're working that much for?
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voldothegr8 posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Some of these posts in this topic are alarming.

Are you really surprised? CE is increasingly notoriously alt right.

Still seems like a liberal haven to me. Make a topic bashing Hillary or Obama and see how many defenders swarm to it.

I'm as centrist as they come tbqh. I'm neither left nor right. I hate Hillary and Trump. Tbqh.
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