Girls ~ how appealing is the role of 1950s housewife to you?


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trixie1868 wrote :
So is 1950s husband ~ which ultimately, is my point.
1950s husband was having an affair with his secretary ... and 1950s kids were biologically related to the milkman.
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AndieIsMe wrote :
You think a woman who cares for the home, children and everything but having a job doesn't have responsibilities? You do the job for a week or so and then come back and say that.
What part of no responsibilities at all don't you understand?
 
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Oh, Scarlet, it's what I've dreamed of since I was a little girl

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AndieIsMe wrote :
The fictionalized, idealized image projected on 1950's TV is not real, but there were women who only stayed home and were quite happy with it.
Yes ... just as there were women before and after who've done the same ... and in more contemporary times, some men as well. But being a stay-at-home mom is only minorly related to the concept of "1950s woman" our society has adopted as reality based on media portrayal.
 
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1950s husband was having an affair with his secretary ... and 1950s kids were biologically related to the milkman.

I know! I'd do it in a heartbeat.
 
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Oh, Scarlet, it's what I've dreamed of since I was a little girl.
But ... I wanted to do the stay-at-home thing ...
 
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hankscorpio wrote :
What part of no responsibilities at all don't you understand?
So, did I totally misunderstand the meaning of your first statement? Do you think women who stay at home (with or without children) have responsibility or not?
 
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I would rather we both focused on our aspirations in life for our careers and spend a lot of our free time together having fun. We can hire a housekeeper for the drudge work around the house that neither of us wants to do. Or failing funds for a housekeeper, I would want to share the drudgery equitably in some fashion so that there is relaxing free time for both people to spend together. What I don't want is one person running about trying to do too much.

What I want is fairness and equality.

Is that too much to ask? Is that impossible for a woman to find?
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ThePriestess wrote :
But ... I wanted to do the stay-at-home thing ...
Oh, my fantasy gets better all the time!

You can live next door and your wife can support you. You can pop over to mine at martini o'clock and I'll pop round to you at half past prozac and we'll spend our time getting our hair done and making cupcakes and getting arrested for grand theft auto.

Julianne Moore plays me in the film version, I don't look like her but it's my script so I get who I want!
 
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I don't know where that 1950's housewife lived, but it wasn't in my neighbourhood. The women in my family have always worked outside the home AND come home to fulfil their share of the domestic duties.

If the fictional 1950's housewife role were available to me, I don't think I'd like it. It would be isolating much of the time, and when I put on an apron I feel like Alice in Wonderland. ... Second thought, maybe that's not so bad.
 
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