This American cultural relic (see image to the right) is priceless, perplexing, question worthy, and thought-provoking, as well as hilarious, understandable, ridiculous, and probably joke-worthy. I'll bet fifty years from now someone will find something like this in Men's Health or Cosmo and have the same type of reaction. "How could they have lived like that?" Or "Well, yeah, now I get why they're all that way." You'll have to click on the image to get a larger view and see what's really going on.
Here's some questions to ponder and answer via a comment. As always, the person with the best score gets a free bottle of five cent whiskey!
1. What was your initial reaction to the end comment "A good wife always knows her place"?
2. It seems as if the writer of this article makes the husband out to be the equivalent of a hungry Kodiak bear who will roar with anger and bat someone down with its massive paw if irritated about not getting enough salmon. In other words, the article encourages a tranquil and blissfully ignorant policy of "don't ask don't tell" as a means to a healthy relationship. How have we changed? Are we more concerned today about husband attacks or bear attacks?
3. All things considered, do you think we are "better off" culturally now than we were then? Is this too subjective a question to even ask? Why or why not?
4. Who satirizes this kinda stuff better: Will Ferrell or Stephen Colbert?
5. In the article it says "Don't complain if he's home late for dinner or even if he stays out all night" and "Never complain if he comes home late or goes out to dinner, or other places of entertainment without you." What? Wait a second... where the hell is he going? Seriously, where do you think he's going?
I smell scandal.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
A Good Wife Always Knows Her Place
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1. What was your initial reaction to the end comment "A good wife always knows her place"?
Boy would I love to tell you, but my wife's standing behind me with a frying pan.
2. It seems as if the writer of this article makes the husband out to be the equivalent of a hungry Kodiak bear who will roar with anger and bat someone down with its massive paw if irritated about not getting enough salmon. In other words, the article encourages a tranquil and blissfully ignorant policy of "don't ask don't tell" as a means to a healthy relationship. How have we changed?
I don't like fish, and the differances are pretty apparent between me and the bear... wait a minute, I don't need to tell you a thing, I don't want to discuss my feelings... don't make me angryyyyyyy.... Arghhhhhh, roar.... hibernate.
Are we more concerned today about husband attacks or bear attacks?
Bear attacks are only natural, husband attacks probably happens more to women and gay men, than straight men.
3. All things considered, do you think we are "better off" culturally now than we were then?
Are you still referring to bear attacks or husband attacks? Either way my answer is 42.
Is this too subjective a question to even ask?
Is it a Polar Bear, or a Brown Bear? What season are we talking about. Is Al Gore involved?
Why or why not?
How the hell should I know, lay off will ya.
4. Who satirizes this kinda stuff better: Will Ferrell or Stephen Colbert?
Will Ferrell is pretty hairy, so he's more like a bear.
5. In the article it says "Don't complain if he's home late for dinner or even if he stays out all night" and "Never complain if he comes home late or goes out to dinner, or other places of entertainment without you." What? Wait a second... where the hell is he going? Seriously, where do you think he's going?
I lojacked the MF'ers car, I'll tell you in a bit.
In defense of the times, I should like to say that there were plenty of corresponding articles around this same time that are contrary to the poor treatment of wives and mothers. I am still looking for one, but I know they are out there. Also, let us not forget that we were trying to get our bearings after a horrendous world war. Many of these men were veterans, and this permissive temperment by the wife (in many cases) was responding to the fatigue and nightmares these men were experiencing.
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