1955 vs. today

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1955 vs. today

Post by fieldshowqueen » Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:27 pm

Here's an actual article from Good Housekeeping from 1955 ... ROFLOL ... have fun "discussing"
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Post by crickett » Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:39 pm

:shock:

Glad I wasn't a wife then!

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Post by Jsaxm » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:06 pm

Maybe we should get Ryan's input on this. He was in his prime around this time, haha!!!
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Post by bassoonuba » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:51 pm

It's been a long time since' I actually laughed out loud to something that I saw on the internet... :lol:

That was great!
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Post by fieldshowqueen » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:39 pm

Just a couple of my favorites and responses I've gotten from some friends:

"... Try to encourage the children to be quiet."
aka "Shut the (bad word) up or you'll be grounded for life mister!"

"Your goal: Try to make sure your home is a place of peace, order and tranquility where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit."
Huh? What am I ... a church?

"Don't complain if he's late home for dinner or even if he stays out all night."
Good idea instead - find out who he's spending the night with and get hold of your attorney to file those divorce papers in the morning, sweetheart!

"Arrange his pillow ..."
... over his face so he can't breathe and continue to "arrange" said pillow until he stops squirming and turns blue.

"A good wife always knows her place."
Which is probably living in a different state or even country.

Not that I agree with some of these (mostly because they would create a long prison sentence), but the article does seem a bit "one sided" and biased against women (just a tad). :lol:
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Post by LoyalTubist » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:09 am

Actually, this article pretty accurately describes how most Vietnamese wives act towards their Western expatriate husbands.

But here his the part they left out:

-Make sure your husband won't have enough money for lunch so he will have to eat whatever you have prepared for dinner.

-Your husband sees lots of beautiful women all day. Grill him at 2:00 AM if he says something about a new woman who was hired recently.

-The level of your romance will result in certain privileges. A wild night of whoopee will mean you can have all his money for the next week.

There are plenty more.

Welcome to Vietnam, where it's been 1955 since 1994.

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Post by Hostrauser » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:04 am

LoyalTubist wrote:-The level of your romance will result in certain privileges. A wild night of whoopee will mean you can have all his money for the next week.
I thought this was a universal truth. :lol:

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Post by mkosbie » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:10 pm

That doesn't sound at all like an ideal wife to me. She should be her own person... otherwise what's the point?
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Post by reinix » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:55 pm

oh wowww.
hahaha.
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