Girlie tip of the day

[Jimmy B]

Yeah I reakon, FFS!!!
Although funnily enough, it sounds like how I grew up, how my Dad expected the house to be and children were to be seen and not heard.
No wonder I'm such a Hitler and have trouble with obeying authority!

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[Jimmy B]

Yeah I reakon, FFS!!!
Although funnily enough, it sounds like how I grew up, how my Dad expected the house to be and children were to be seen and not heard.
No wonder I'm such a Hitler and have trouble with obeying authority!

Hi Mrs KD, there would have been generations of women raised with these values, I can still see some of that in my Wife's Gran' who is in her mid 90's. Mind you blokes of the time were expected to be Gentlemen in every sense of the word, I know my Grandad certainly was, right to the end and speaking of Hitler, maybe being a prisoner for 4 years gave him a fresh perspective to live by. Time has moved on for both sexes, probably for the best. I wonder what the next 50 years will bring.

[Trudes]

You're so right Jimmy, and it's surprising how many women still think they need to be their husband's slaves, sometimes I think men have moved on more than some women in that respect , although the repression of women still happens in other countries and I think we kiwi chicks have life pretty sweet, as we have a choice in how we live our lives.

[mstriumph]

methinks the women they are talking about in that article from "way back then" were women who's ONLY 'job' was keeping house and whose only source of income to provide for themselves and their children was their husband...........

women who's whole education and upbringing had been focused on marriage from a VERY early age and who would have had very few saleable skills to support them if their husband had up and left [and, even if they DID have any such skills, would be selling them in the '50s marketplace where women earned only a fraction of average male earnings]

besides which, divorce in the 1950's carried a stigma which would not only have reflected poorly on the woman but also on her children [... and the school playground can be one of the cruellest places in the world]

slaves can't make waves ....... easy enuff for us to judge by our current day standards - easy, but wrong

the MOST we can do, as Mrs Kendog says, is be thankful that we live in the here and now ...... where we DO have choices

my 2c

[Panther]

the consequences of today's 'liberated' society, you know girl power, feminine equality is shown through the dualism of women being the bread winners and running a household and although they may be emancipated from the 50's housewife stereotype is their life actually better?

[mstriumph]

only from a philosophical viewpoint on the relative merits of freedom v slavery ........ and this would be negated if a woman has the power to choose between them ?

or are you implying that women now have as little actual useful choice as they did back then? - if so i'd have to agree that that's a valid arguement for many women .........