Do you think wives of today should heed advice from the '50s?

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/26/can-this-marriage-be-saved-advice_n_5829870.html

The author considers that advice to be "awful".

I keep seeing this recurring theme:

Early "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" columns, which continue today at Divine Caroline without the sexist overtones, show us how far women's equality has come -- but also how far we have to go. Here are five horrifying pieces of advice from the magazine.

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Illustrates how useless 'equality' really is. They get what they want, then they want more. Just like minorities or anything else.

And how can a piece from the 50s show us "how far we have to go"????? That makes ZERO sense.

The 50s is like another civilization compared to today.

Dear MDJ,
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Almost like another World,so far off,but like relationships there is no good looking back with a sigh...There was plenty that was rotten in the World of my Childhood!

I wonder how the divorce rate was in the 50's compared to how it is now. That alone should tell you if the advice back then was awful or not. Apparently though, those statistics are overlooked because the authors opinion is what should really count.

Peaks&Valleys said:

I wonder how the divorce rate was in the 50's compared to how it is now.

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Ask Google and ye shall receive...

http://www.vanneman.umd.edu/socy441/trends/divorce.jpg

Desdinova said:

Ask Google and ye shall receive...

http://www.vanneman.umd.edu/socy441/trends/divorce.jpg

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Nice. Exactly. I was trying to look at the comments to the article but for whatever reason they wouldn't load. Someone should post in there a link to those statistics.

I did a search of my own on those statistics and somehow ran across this gem:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...son-They-dont-use-elbow-grease-housework.html

Women’s waistlines have grown by six inches over the past 60 years – because they don’t do as much housework as their forebears, researchers claim.

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Back then: The woman stays home, takes care of the kids, cooks the food, cleans the house, does the grocery shopping, tends the garden. All physically active things....carrying around a kid, lifting that heavy a$$ Kirby vacuum up and down that flight of stairs, down on her hands and knees digging around a garden, lifting roasts in and out of the oven, carrying the daily groceries into the house. All day she's exerting herself, physical activity. She stayed in shape, PLUS, the icing on the cake, she had a happy masculine husband!

This day and age: She works at a desk, pays for a nanny, pays someone to clean the house, pays for a gym membership which she goes to after working an 8 hour day. Then when she comes home she's stressed out, so it's now the man's job to make her feel better because that's what men are for, all the while further betasizing them into how she wants them to be. Then, because somehow there's still something missing in her life, she buys 50 Shades of grey where she fantasizes about being submissive and dominated.

Peaks&Valleys said:

Back then: The woman stays home, takes care of the kids, cooks the food, cleans the house, does the grocery shopping, tends the garden. All physically active things....carrying around a kid, lifting that heavy a$$ Kirby vacuum up and down that flight of stairs, down on her hands and knees digging around a garden, lifting roasts in and out of the oven, carrying the daily groceries into the house. All day she's exerting herself, physical activity. She stayed in shape, PLUS, the icing on the cake, she had a happy masculine husband!

This day and age: She works at a desk, pays for a nanny, pays someone to clean the house, pays for a gym membership which she goes to after working an 8 hour day. Then when she comes home she's stressed out, so it's now the man's job to make her feel better because that's what men are for, all the while further betasizing them into how she wants them to be. Then, because somehow there's still something missing in her life, she buys 50 Shades of grey where she fantasizes about being submissive and dominated.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ain't this sh*t the truth?

I mean, I get it. The feminist movement probably started over some real issues. But just like any other oppressed group, they go absolutely shametastic ballistic when facts are presented to them (like the divorce rate). They either ignore/shame the facts or pass the blame.

Women, not men, have been the overwhelming audience for such tripe since the 50s and before, are to this day with Huffpuff, perhaps the most dishonest site on the internet (I can find all kinds of crap in 50s magazines, does 60 year old pablum from women's pulp mags mean ANYTHING in the present day? Only a lying ahole talking to a feeble minded audience could make that claim) Huffpuff wants you to believe that this kind of thing was social programming of women by men, when this kind of thing has always been a closed circle between women and their tabloid trash, no matter whether a man or woman writes it, it's only women reading it. MEN SEE THROUGH IT FOR WHAT IT IS. What this really means is that Huffpuff is scraping the barrel bottom, pulling out all stops no matter how absurd, to change what is shaping up to be a hard ride for Democrats in November. Publishers learned long ago that women tend to use media as emotion supply more than information, and that generating emotions, positive, negative, doesn't matter, sells more copy. If "Dear Abby" or whatever doesn't say controversial things, women don't read it, not enough emotional drama stirred.

There are so many fallacies, distortions and outright lies present and leading up to the "we still have a long way to go" feminist lie narrative that I won't bother listing them here. And don't buy for a second the "feminism was good at first, accomplished much needed change, and then went astray" lie narrative, it's patently untrue.

Feminism is and was all one thing, a marxist-socialist method of controlling a desired voting bloc in the face of blue collar rejection of its ordained proletariat role in favor of wanting a capitalist life for their children. Lower income male white workers weren't self-absorbed and gullible enough to buy the communist line, so next stop, minorities and women. There are no true "waves" or "strands" of feminism, but rather lots of hucksters and faux academics trying to peddle their latest "spin." It is and always has been socialist-founded propaganda towards discriminatory outcome in exchange for votes. Despite that literally every single plank of feminist "thought" is an obvious lie to anyone with a reasonable grasp of history, it has worked remarkably well on self-absorbed western women, garnering 65% of under 35 female votes for democrats, but is rapidly running out of steam as the net shines truth onto 50 years of pure lies.

my mother in law about 2 years dressed my wife down pretty bad when she found out that i was cooking a lot of the meals in the house beucase she could not cook. she let her haveit. really hurt my wife's feelings but she told her you need to be a wife, this is what a wife does. she was like you dont' work, what the **** else do you have to do ? at least do that lol.


never had a problem sense.

I had a similar experience over dishes and housework. We got in a fight about it, and she called her mother crying.

"Mummy! Mummy! He called me a pig, Mummy!....why?....he said it's because I don't do the dishes."

And then my mother-in-law said "So get in the kitchen and do the dishes."

"Oh Mummy! You always take his side!"

Absolutely. But there is probably no going back.

i wasn't even mad about cooking, they came and babysitted our son during our honeymoon and the first few days we got back they stayed and noticed that i was working and cooking and she was out shopping and **** lol, i mean i was used to it, my babe can't cook. it is what it is. she let her have it.