[Jotmo]

I consider the pot roast to be the metaphor for the ideal 1950s housewife... No modern woman has enough time to cook a pot roast for a weekday meal in today's world, whether or not they stay at home. That ideal is something that I do despise as it significantly limits women's intellectual self-worth. The idea that men would demand that women actually stay in the kitchen and that this idea was accepted by society as okay is abhorrent to me.

Wow. That really reveals a lot about you.

Cooking a pot roast for your husband, does not make you repressed or limit your intellectual self-worth.

If you really believe that, you have no intellect to feel any self worth about, so I guess it would be understandable that you feel that way.

Sheesh. It's just a pot roast. Get over it.

[luckystarmom]

I cooked pot roast last week. It's really easy, and you can do most of the work beforehand. I also cooked pot roasts when I was a single working woman. I actually cooked more when I was a single working woman. I don't have as much time now that I have 3 kids.

[Campion]

That ideal is something that I do despise as it significantly limits women's intellectual self-worth. The idea that men would demand that women actually stay in the kitchen and that this idea was accepted by society as okay is abhorrent to me.

Did I forget to mention your obvious, in-your-face anger?

[Accygirl]

It's a metaphor for a society as a whole that was very repressive toward women (i.e. the steretypical T.V. housewife in heels cooking her husband dinner). The only thing that a middle-class women during the 1950s could do was cook and clean for her husband and children. If she even received a college degree (very unlikely as the percentage of women who went to college remained flat while the percentage of men attending it spiked during the 50s), she couldn't get a job outside the house. There were also no laws protecting women from workplace harassment and employment discrimination, so it was legal to hire a man over an equally qualified woman just because he was a man.