On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:37:20 PM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
> On 1/29/2013 1:15 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
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> > On 29/01/2013 12:50 PM, Dimitri wrote:
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> >> Do you think times have changed?
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> >> http://i.imgur.com/rjOEvhz.png?1
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> >> (running for cover)
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> >> Dimitri
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> > Perhaps, but I will show it to my wife with a "hint hint hint" ;-)
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> > There is a good chance that article is fraud. I mean... don't complain
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> > if he stays out all night ????? Seriously? Not even in the 1950s.
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> Oh, I doubt that, Dave. They used to publish books akin to guidelines
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> on how to be a good wife. Way before this little thing was published.
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> And it was always about what the wife should do to *keep* her man.
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> Many years later there was a book espousing the same concept. Do any of
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> you recall a booked titled 'The Complete Woman'? By Maribel Morgan...
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> 1970's, IIRC. Here's a quote from her book:
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> "She needed to accept him and to *change herself* to make him and
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> herself happy. Morgan once wrote, "It's only when a woman *surrenders*
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> her life to her husband, reveres and worships him and is willing to
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> serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him. She becomes a
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> priceless jewel, the glory of femininity, his queen!"
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> What a load of horsecrap. Might as well chain her up in the basement and
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> only let her out to do the cooking.
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I remember back in the 1980s, someone from Mary Kay Cosmetics saying, "You should revere your husband almost as you revere God."
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> Jill

--Bryan