This isn’t as appallingly sexist as I expected it to be
A lot of the conversations we have today are the same that people have been having for generations. It still seems anachronistic to read sometimes though.
Like complaining about how children act, or how no one wants to work anymore. Or how the politicians have lost their minds.
I was watching something from the late 60s the other day, and there was a line by a young actress explaining that young people don't think there will be a future for them and are living accordingly.
It was the exact same sentiment you would expect to see while doom-scrolling today.
I mean.....
Basically every generation since the boomers had valid reason to believe WWIII would end us all. Everyones got nukes, and humans are stupid enough to use them!
Yeah, if it used gender-neutral language, most of it would be solid relationship advice.
The only one that's particularly awful is the demand for wives to scamper to the door when the husband arrives, like a good little housepet. 🤮
Absent of the gender assumption, it's good advice for any spouse to greet their partner when they come home. There's a good chance that they've been working and being welcomed home can relieve a lot of the stress that builds up from being out of the house. It makes one feel like one has come home, rather than just come back to a place where one can take off one's shoes.
Yeah, I think with a minor revision, that one would be okay. Just like, if you're a stay-at-home mom or something, when your husband gets home, holler out to him, greet him, let him know where you are, you know, let him know he's welcome to be home, something like that.
My ex-wife was a stay-at-home wife, and when I got home she would say, "Hey" to me and it was nice to be greeted when I got home.
Yeah, that's much more reasonable. Basically, "Show your partner you care that they're there".
i'll be honest, i like when my wife greets me at the door when i get home. I like when my cats greet me at the door when i get home. likewise my wife really likes when the cats, or more importantly i greet her at the door (as it's a sign i'm having a good enough day to get up). we're usualy excited to see each other. but it's not a habit anyone but the cats have.
I do that when my wife comes home. Why would you not?
I kind of expected these to have aged worse. Some are solid - if a little obvious in modern times - advice.
And then there are the others... At least some of them are humorous; show them to your partner guys i'm sure she will appreciate them. Even if she is just a wife 🫠
I showed it to my wife and she laughed a bit too hard at the "devoid of colour sense" part.
were you wearing purple and green at the time?
Hey, the joker pulls it off!
Yeah, but he's also a homocidal maniac who comits mass murder.
Man, color theory is intense.
Yeah, it’s not that these are bad. It’s that many people of the time needed to be told these in the first place.
Many people today need to be told these...
"Even a wife is an individual". Wait what.
Very progressive for 2025, unfortunately we're heading backwards where we need this said again...
My work colleagues are fucking morons.
For real. My wife is more intelligent than my entire department combined
so like, i used to belong to a cult. they had this "what should you be looking for in a spouse" lesson and I mentioned I was looking for someone intelligent, as someone who couldn't keep up with me would be boring. i practically started a riot. like, sign a million that cult was not for me.
One of the many myriad things I adore about my wife is that she will ask me questions about things to understand them better. To the point where she’s made me look up sources and challenge and sometimes change what I know to be true.
Well by that logic, so is your wife.
Why would you insult her like that?
That's right lady's! Don't let your man leave the house with brown boots and a black belt. Use the belt and restrain him until he gets his color's right!
;)
DON'T say your wife wastes time in reading, even if she only reads fiction.
I guess in 1913 that was "you spend too much time watching trash TV"
My idiot brother is going through a divorce right now. I reeeealy want to send this to him
These are all don'ts. Where are some of the do's?
I'm actually surprised some of the don'ts for the husbands are good advice.
I remember reading that these were written by a woman, so there was less misogyny.
Surprisingly not the blatant misogyny I expected given the title
Though the typography has me feeling this is a potentially bit more modern than 1913, however I'm not quite sure when this sort of sans-serif tabloidy style became prevalent, so I could be completely off the mark.
It's apparently legit and from a British author named Blanche Ebbutt.
This is too damn woke for MAGA
Pfah! I sneer at your bridge-playing!
Margaret handed you your ass every week for the last month! You can't take tricks for shit.
This is... pretty solid honestly. Is there more of a list? With the Do's?
Manliness is not purely a physical quality
Surprisingly accepting of trans men for that era
I read that first one for the missus as " listen for his lechery " and thought I was in for a wild ride.
So like what the fuck happened in the 90s with cosmo
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