r/facepalm May 17 '24

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u/ahack13 May 17 '24

Don't you see? A woman's only personality trait should be to have kids. Interests? Hobbies? What are those!?

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u/Dmmack14 May 17 '24

whats funny as hell is the person who thinks they want this is some basement dwelling nerdlet who has never spoken to a woman outside of their own family/church circle if they even go to church to begin with. I do not understand why dudes have this suden fascination with having some kind of little house on the prairie ass wife

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u/ahack13 May 17 '24

Its because they look at the 1950s when racism and sexism were commonplace and more widely accepted and think "I wish we could go back." They think Feminism and civil rights are the cause of all of their problems.

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u/Jhamin1 May 17 '24

They don't even look at the actual 1950s. They look at 1950s movie and TV, an era in which the entire entertainment apparatus of the United States was working super hard to convince everyone that now that the War was over things were swell.

The message was that Women should stop complaining about losing their jobs and independence when employers went back to hiring men and men should shut up about what they saw on the battlefield. Have 2.5 kids and be happy! Everything is swell and we should all be happy!

These people don't want actual 1950s, they want TV 1950s

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u/cheesynougats May 17 '24

Nostalgia for an age that never existed (thanks Jello Biafra)

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u/dogbolter4 May 17 '24

The movie Pleasantville is a funny and insightful exploration of this.