On Darwin's Day
I was thinking in what to write to commemorate Darwin's birthday when a friend's email with this article from 1955 appeared in my inbox. It is a "Good Wife's Guide" from the magazine Good Housekeeping.
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"You have no right to question him" as well as "remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours" just left me speechless. I also find it funny the contradiction between "his boring day..." and some paragraphs later "what he might have gone through the day".
There is just one thing I can say after reading it (even if it sounds like an oxymoron): "Thanks God for evolution!"
PS: For the purists out there, I know that Darwin's evolution theory has nothing to do with this type of evolution, but I believe they 'connect' in some way.
Thanks Brig for the email, it really made me laugh!
2 comments:
It seems so much TOO much that i can't imagine it to be anything else than a fake. These are obviously ridiculous rules and i can't imagine one woman in the world (and even in the 50's) being educated enough to buy and read such a magazine and then to learn such advices. No way, man. This set of rules for good wife would only be sunstainable during a crisis period like WAR for example where it's not the time to discuss. So it seems a fake to me.
Check out what Snopes says about the article... check out the Do's and Dont's.
Even when I can't vouch for this one as it is I do have some others in Spanish with a similar tone, from the same time in history. I understand they sound unbelievable today but I have some stories from my grandma (that died when she was 101 years) that sounded like sci-fi to me!
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