Obviously it's an older way of looking at marrage/gender roles. I don't think that it's the items to do on the list that is offensive per say but the manner in which it was said. Especially things like "a good wife knows her role" and "his topics are more important" sort of thing. I know personally that a completely submissive woman is a turn off to yours truley. Of course, no one wants to come home to a mess, children misbehaving and a boat load of complaints or troubles after a long day at the office. People need to unwind after work, that's just the way it is. I know that if I was married and had a few kids and after a long day I came home and started getting hit with questions about bills, with the kids running around like maniacs and the house in a squallar I would probably question what's been going on... that is if the Wife was a house wife.... I dunno. My Mother was a house wife and she was pretty good at it I like to think, and I know she probably wanted to rip my head off as well as everyone else's head off from time to time. I think it's got to be one of the hardest jobs out there. That mentality seems to trivialize it to me. Of course, that was in '55. I wonder what would happen if that subject was revisited in todays what the article would say.
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