"Ridicuously bad advice from the 1950's"

[Stagger Lee]

For women or so says today's mainstream media. It's (still) actually great advice for women.

http://glo.msn.com/relationships/relationship-advice-from-the-1950s-9533.gallery

Rules of Engagement
"It is up to you to earn the proposal—by waging a dignified, common-sense campaign designed to help him see for himself that matrimony rather than bachelorhood is the keystone of a full and happy life."

A Wife's Work
"If you have a job or career of your own, would you be willing to give it up if it would advance your husband's interests? If not, you are more interested in promoting yourself than promoting your husband. Helping a man attain success is a full-time career in itself. You can't hope to do it unless it is important enough to claim all your attention."

No Whining
"Complaining, whining, comparing, sneering, harping – the nagger may specialize in one or be a general practitioner of all these forms of mental cruelty. . . . Nagging is a devastating emotional disease. If you are in doubt about having it, ask your husband. If he should tell you that you are a nag, don't react by violent denial – that only proves he is right."

How To Be Chic
"In order to increase your chances of acquiring chic when it is lacking, the first requirement is to be aware of the fact that you do not possess it. … Know at least your general type: sporty and casual, or doll-like and exquisite. Study all the fashion magazines. Try to find in real life a woman who is a good example of the same type as you and whose chic is widely recognized; carefully analyze her manner of dress and behavior in order to retain what can be copied."

Dumb It Down
"To make him feel important, you have to forget your own desires for importance. Compliment him on his physical prowess, his mental acumen, his good looks, his virility. The worst mistake a girl can make is to make a man feel intellectually inferior or inadequate as a male. We men need a lot of reassurance. So lay it on thick but subtly. Stroke his ego. Let him think he's king much of the time. He will love you for it, and, you know, it will make you feel extremely feminine."

Double Standard
"The man has one set of standards for himself and another for you. He may consider himself a Don Juan for having succeeded in getting you to pet, but he will also decide that you’re too easy to get."

Talk the Talk
"If you are a gal who uses frank, men's locker room language—DON'T on this first date. DON'T—EVER! Avoid shocking your date. Even if he uses such language and hears all the guys and dolls in the senior class using it, he wants his date to be better than the rest of the crowd."

It's a Date!
"If he's made plans for the evening, don't try to change them, no matter how much you hanker to see the double feature at the Palace or to show off your beau to the gang at the Pizzeria. Boys resent bitterly, and they have every right to, the idea that they're being manipulated or pushed around on a date."

Like Mother, Like Daughter
"A young woman should begin in her teens learning the things that keep a home running smoothly. She can watch how her mother cooks and bakes. There are also many opportunities for a daughter to observe how Mother handles Dad when he’s had a tough day at work."

Wow, that's ridiculously bad advice . No wonder it didn't work good for relationships/marriages in the 1950's .

 

[speed dawg]

I'd love to see what this 'empowered' broad DOES consider good advice. Here's some more pieces by this self-proclaimed firecracker:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brienne-walsh/woman-president_b_1974618.html

An Open Letter to the Women Who Are Telling Me It's My Fault I'm Not Married

Idiots like this woman think that the President still holds the power. The true power is still in the hands of MEN who have their money invested elsewhere, safe from the liberal agenda. The U.S. and world economy is a ship - it's going to go where it's going to go - all the government can hope to do is simply 'steer' it a little bit. They have no real power.

Reality WILL prevail over time.

 

[JoeMarron]

There's only four comments but three out of four called out the bullsh!t claim that the advice was ridiculous. Perhaps there is hope afterall..

 

[Darth]

More like "ridiculously good advice from the 1950s", before America fell apart.

 

[Darth]

A 1960s woman trying to please her husband (labeled "absurdly sexist"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRYfouuHPvs


Let's just face it. Feminism is a disease.


In another commercial in this bizarre, early-sixties ad campaign for Folgers, a smug young husband says "Augh! This coffee is criminal!" as he throws a cup of his wife's coffee into a bed of petunias. Then, he obnoxiously berates his wife while sticking his finger in her face saying, "Admit it! Your coffee really is murder!" The wife goes to a European-accented old man in the grocery store and says, "Papa Eddie, it's my coffee--it's murder!" Papa Eddie is the male version of Mrs. Olsen, another Folger's coffee pusher. The obvious and equitable solution--the husband making his own coffee--is never considered by either party. The assumption that the wife's role is to please her man to his satisfaction is never questioned.

You know, I never quite got the whole concept of "mountain grown", much less the concept of a mountain. Is a mountain round? Is it square? Or perhaps they are shaped like an amoeba? Well, Papa Eddie sets the record straight here with an easy to remember hand signal which clearly indicates mountains are in fact triangular in shape. I wonder what ad man thought up THAT brilliant idea.

 

[Darth]

A woman actually doing her job at work and obeying her boss without b!tching, ike she's supposed to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spb0bo3IT0I

This is video that shows the type of sexism indicative of the era.