This is an actual article from a magazine in the '50s. Proof that it is no longer a man's world.  Grandpa had it good.

thevelveturd 6,553 10
02/11/2009 09:30 AM

Ok that didn't work right, maybe you can see it all now.

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I'm Danielle... Bitch! 82 6
02/11/2009 09:31 AM

Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him...

Wow even in the 50's they encouraged girl on girl action and threesomes! Don't want that man of your to be bored now do we?

thevelveturd 6,553 10
02/11/2009 09:33 AM

Damn,  ok third times a charm.

BarneyBites 2,612 19
02/11/2009 09:44 AM

Even at the old age of 47 I still enjoy sex. So I dont believe asking my wife to follow these rules would be a good idea. "Go frost yourself"  would be one of her nicer replies.

Bean 8,602 19
02/11/2009 11:24 AM

The article was either written by a cheating man, or by a naive woman.  Don't get upset if he is late for dinner, stays out all night, or goes to places of entertainment without me?  Why don't they just say  "Encourage cheating, and allow him to have any time to himself that he wants so that he can engage in his cheating behaviors"

I'm Danielle... Bitch! 82 6
02/11/2009 11:29 AM

Arrange his pillow...

OVER his face.

Shell Belle 77,143 25
02/11/2009 12:01 PM

It's a good thing I didn't live in the fifties, because I would have made a terrible wife. Back in the days when my kids were babies, I would be waiting by the door to hand them off to my husband when he came in. And the house would usually be  a complete mess, with no dinner waiting.

I don't know how those women did it without going completely insane.  They must have had access to some really good drugs.

Dixie Princess 583 8
02/11/2009 12:36 PM

Gather up the toys - I make sure I do that everyday.  I like having them all in one area for a quick reload.  You can't imagine how much I enjoy whipping a wooden toy block across the room at my husband's head when he mouths off.  The sickening "crack" sound just makes my day!

Gonzo 20,522 17
02/11/2009 12:53 PM

"Be lumpy to see him?"

Gonzo 20,522 17
02/11/2009 12:54 PM

Oh... didn't zoom in.  Nevermind.  Don't be lumpy.

Stuttering Sq-q-q-uirrel 53,270 54
02/11/2009 01:13 PM

That is why my wife went nuts, she didn't do most of that stuff and it stripped the gears in her female mind.

Pubah 56,813 18
02/11/2009 08:05 PM

Sea Shelle sounds like my ex

Please, say it ain't sooooooo 

Chit 178,781 15
02/11/2009 08:29 PM

I don't know how those women did it without going completely insane. They must have had access to some really good drugs.





"Mothers Little Helper"     I'm pretty sure that the Stones sang about them.



 

Ahhh....Better living through chemistry.

 

dammitthedog 127 5
02/11/2009 08:40 PM

I think body-bags and gravestones saying "Frost you" were both more in demand then.

I wonder why.

REAPERR-FU 12,363 11
02/12/2009 08:04 AM

Such a better life we had back then. 

I wish I could find the guidelines on how to be a good blackie from then it would make a great knee slapper of a article.

Millie 116,988 28
02/12/2009 07:12 PM

Meh.  I wasn't a good wife in the 1990s, much less the 1950s.

Whistler Hussein McManus 186,130 44
02/12/2009 07:27 PM

I'm calling fat daughter on the reality of the article's origins.  Women in the 1950's were already beyond most of this, having managed to work and run households on their own during World War II.

Now if you said this was from last November's issue of Fundie Monthly, I'd believe it.

The Rockin' Donkey 77,546 17
02/12/2009 07:41 PM

"suck, swallow, repeat."

Thud 68,506 19
02/12/2009 07:47 PM

"suck, swallow, repeat."

You're really hoping TTJ reads this, aren't you?

The Rockin' Donkey 77,546 17
02/12/2009 07:49 PM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Thud 68,506 19
02/12/2009 07:54 PM

No, it's not a bad thing.

You could just yell into whatever room she's in "It's blowjob time!"  Might get a response, even if it's not what you're for.

Dogs Akimbo 211,594 32
02/12/2009 11:22 PM

How to be a good wife



As a young fellow, I always hoped it looked something like something like this (not safe for Julia's Child).

spleendingo 157 7
02/12/2009 11:45 PM

Oh godlittlebabyjesusonapopsiclestick......if there's one female who agrees with this article, please call.

Yes I'm a sexist Emerson.

But I have a (fairly unused) penis.

It's win/win.

Hairy Lobster 18,570 33
02/13/2009 10:43 AM

It's actually kinda funny, when I was married, I did my best to be like the article says. But, apparently, my husand didn't like that, or he was a cheating bastard because I enabled it.

So now, any subsequent guy is screwed. You can all thank my ex-husband.

le turd de velours 6,553 10
02/13/2009 11:25 AM

In this day and age women aren't expected to adhere to standards anywhere close to this article to qualify as a good wife, however the divorce rate is over double what it was in the 50s. Why do you think that is?

Bean 8,602 19
02/13/2009 11:40 AM

Because women smarted up and decided that their scumbag lazyass husband didn't deserve the royal treatment, and the scumbag lazyass husbands decided they didn't like that idea.

le turd de velours 6,553 10
02/13/2009 11:59 AM

The result is also a bunch of single mothers who never learned how to cook a decent healthy meal so they stuff fast food into their obese divorce scarred children's fat faces. They have no time to cook even if they learned to because they have to work two jobs and fight off depression brought on by lonliness and their own weight problem. Now they're working three times as hard as they ever would have trying to keep a man happy even by 1950's standards. Granted the article is extreme by today's standards, but if women could at least try to pick any three of the things it says you should do in the article and stick by it, divorce rates would plummett along with prozac usage. Women have acheived  the liberation they have always wanted but I would venture a guess they are not near as happy with their lives as our grandmothers were.

Hairy Lobster 18,570 33
02/13/2009 12:31 PM

You know what's not on the list?

Being good at blowjobs, taking it in the bum, and bringing him a beer and a sammich when he asks.

That article is flawed.

Hairy Lobster 18,570 33
02/15/2009 11:25 AM

More flawed lists on being a good wife:

And, of course, a diary entry from stepfordwives.org.