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To: T.B. Yoits; Jonty30
Come on, you two are the experts, help me understand this part:

The warning signs have been there for decades...Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic, inspired by Playboy culture, the counterculture and a desire for personal freedom.

What were all those housewives doing wrong in the 1950s to start all this? I know everything men do is merely a reaction to the evil of women, so... can you tell me why this would start in the 50s? I thought it started in the 70s, because "feminism." But the 50s? What were women doing wrong in the 50s?

48 posted on 05/23/2026 5:30:16 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady

The women were doing nothing wrong

By the sixties, there were so many electrical appliances and devices that they got their work accomplished and had nothing to do.

They began looking outside the home and discovered jobs. They had EEO passed and escaped the boredom tedium of nothing to occupy their time


56 posted on 05/23/2026 5:59:51 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: A_perfect_lady

It’s about a way of life. The way women are doing things now, childlessness is becoming a norm. Our civilization is disappearing. It’s not about women working or not. It’s about the right order to do things in order for civilization to survive.

Women have the right to work if they want, but the Western way of life is disappearing for third world ethics. As things stand, women will be wearing bhurkas, as they are in Europe, because Europeans didn’t replenish themselves.

The right order to do things, for women, is to marry in her 20’s to a good man and have children and then work when the children are old enough.

It started in the 1950’s, because of WWII. That’s when feminism and the corporate agenda and government discovered that they could half the wages and double the taxation by having women work. It was a con job to eliminate the family.


63 posted on 05/23/2026 6:17:42 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He spent a week hunting a mammoth, just because I said I was hungry. He's such a good friend. )
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To: A_perfect_lady
Come on, you two are the experts, help me understand this part: The warning signs have been there for decades...Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic, inspired by Playboy culture, the counterculture and a desire for personal freedom.

What were all those housewives doing wrong in the 1950s to start all this? I know everything men do is merely a reaction to the evil of women, so... can you tell me why this would start in the 50s? I thought it started in the 70s, because "feminism." But the 50s? What were women doing wrong in the 50s?

1. Feminism predated the 1970s by decades. This didn't start in the 1950s.

2. Nice ad hominem attack with the "experts" jab.

3. The crux of the statement is "she suggested". It's her opinion, nothing more. Men didn't "rebel against the breadwinner ethic, inspired by a 'Playboy culture'.

73 posted on 05/23/2026 6:30:53 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: A_perfect_lady
What were all those housewives doing wrong in the 1950s to start all this? I know everything men do is merely a reaction to the evil of women, so... can you tell me why this would start in the 50s? I thought it started in the 70s, because "feminism." But the 50s? What were women doing wrong in the 50s?

Question: Did marriage rates decline significantly in the 1950s?

Answer: "No, U.S. marriage rates did not decline significantly in the 1950s; rather, they remained at a high, stable level following a massive post-World War II peak, and a notable, continuous decline did not begin until the 1970s and 1980s"

96 posted on 05/23/2026 7:31:29 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: A_perfect_lady

“What were all those housewives doing wrong in the 1950s to start all this?”

They stopped putting out for their husbands.

L


100 posted on 05/23/2026 7:42:59 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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