A good wife always knows her place...

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[hdofu.livejournal.com]

This is going on my fridge.

[crankycatlady.livejournal.com]

Be a little gay and more interesting for him? Does that mean when he comes home from work, he'll find the coffee klatch having an orgy in the rumpus room?

[freezer.livejournal.com]

1955 - that's grounds for divorce/justifiable homicide (homosexuals are evil deviants, dontchaknow)

2006 - Grounds for divorce/justifiable homicide if she doesn't let you join/watch/take pictures.

[manlaughing.livejournal.com]

I think it's too "good" to be true.  And those fonts are, I think, available on your average XP machine.

As Snopes says: "The question here is whether the piece quoted above really came from a home economics textbook.  Is it real, or is it yet another of those 'look how far we've come' fabrications?  We know the graphic reproduced above (supposedly from the 13 May 1955 edition of a magazine called Housekeeping Monthly) is a fabrication: It didn't first appear until well after the 'How to Be a Good Wife' list had begun circulating via e-mail, and it's clearly a mock-up produced by adding the text of the e-mail around an image taken from a 1957 cover of John Bull magazine.  (The image itself even bears an 'Advertising Archives' legend along its side, indicating its source.)  As for the text itself, nobody has turned up the infamous textbook that supposedly included these ten steps. The list is often attributed to Helen B. Andelin's book Fascinating Womanhood, first published in 1963 to provide instruction in 'The Art of Winning a Man's Complete Love,' but no such list appears in that work. "

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp

[bjenright.livejournal.com]

2nded.

[manlaughing.livejournal.com]

Lord, look at all these people eat it up without question!
How depressing.

[bjenright.livejournal.com]

Must be new to the internet, really.

[(Anonymous)]

Accepting what fits one's prejudices predates the internet and almost everything else!

[manlaughing.livejournal.com]

oops don't know why I wasn't logged in for that.
Accepting what fits one's prejudices predates the internet and almost everything else!

[gutterboylive.livejournal.com]

Don't complain if he's out all night!

Just drop another Mother's Little Helper and fix yourself a little highball! Pretty soon you'll have forgotten all about it as you doze off on the davenport, with a Harold Robbins novel slipping from your hand and a Salem burning between your fingers...

[(Anonymous)]

i showed this to my mother a few years ago, and she told me she thought it was very good/made sense/that's how wives should be. she did get married in 1951.

[zzzing.livejournal.com]

man thats so terrible, its better today, where no one compromises and everyone just gets divorced. we live in a much more enlightened society.

[sunshinesarah.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I agree with all of these, with the exception of things like "his topics of conversation are more interesting" and "you have no right to question him?" If my husband were a stay-at-home dad, I would expect him to do most of these things for me in order to make me comfortable after a long, hard day. :)

[the-icequeen.livejournal.com]

this is a hoax, made in modern times. The magazine "housekeeping monthly" can not be found to have ever existed.

But, it's an entertaining read anyway.