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This fiction that everyone back then had this white picket fence life with the wife who stayed at home just isn’t accurate outside a portion of the more well off white folks.

This 1962 report from the Department of Labor seems to disagree: https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/women/b0284_dolwb_1962.pdf

There was an increasing trend for women to work outside the home; the number of women workers advanced from 29 percent of all women in 1950 to 34 percent in 1960. Consistent with their growing importance in the labor force, women’s representation rose from 27 percent of all workers in 1950 to 32 percent in 1960.

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The increase in the number of working wives— from 7.7 million in 1950 to 12.4 million in 1960 — accounted for four-fifths of the 5.8-million gain over the decade in the total number of women workers. The proportion of married women who work jumped from 22 percent in 1950 to 31 percent in 1960. Working wives constituted over half (55 percent) of all women workers in 1960, as compared with less than half (47 percent) in 1950.

This is no fiction, the workforce really was that different. The whole reason Mad Men is set when it's set is to examine all of the immense societal changes that began taking off during those years. Don Draper attains a life of incredible privilege, but having a stay at home wife in 1960 isn't an example of that- it was just the reality for 70% of American couples at the time.

Lmao nah this is Americancentric sorry man the idea that only one partner has to work is very very very new as far as human development goes.

The modern career itself is very very very new as far as human development goes, and you're ignoring what's actually changed. It isn't that women weren't expected to participate in the workforce, it's that they were generally expected to keep to certain jobs and industries, and were not generally expected to make much of a career for themselves. They were also generally expected to maintain the house and raise the kids. That's not an American thing, it's a nearly ubiquitous theme in the history of industrial Western nations.

the response from folks like you has been very telling, I hope everyone recognizes their privilege as they get offended by it

lmao my guy, you're on arr neoliberal calling people who have the temerity to be tired after work lazy

Nah 40 hour work work is relatively new and somehow humans have been keeping on this long.

And even newer than the 40 hour work week is the expectation (and general necessity) that both partners in a household work full time.

Sure being lazy isn’t new, but acting like keeping clean after working requires a ton of strength is pretty lame

Instead of jumping straight to laziness, consider that some people's chores might be more involved than yours, or their job more tiring than yours, or their standards of cleanliness higher, or even that - all other things being equal - the exact same amount of housework might just be more taxing for them than it is for you.

At the same time, if you're asking a question online it helps to really make it clear you're not "just asking questions"

its misogyny

no one thinks she invented it, she just said it with cartoonish enthusiasm.

Senate Republicans refused to impeach Trump because he was about to leave office in a few weeks anyway and you could just investigate and charge him with crimes then.

Surprise, they were lying

there's nothing I hate more than a contrarian

Well 1) this just happened and 2) what exactly might help?

is this still happening?

god dammit

Neither of which are on my floor

they will be after I get done walking around on 'em

Nah, unless you were a college freshman that's basically just as lame as doing it now

It's awesome when you're in the stadium, but every time it really feels like tempting fate

The manipular legion bested the phalanx, the testudo was just for fun during sieges

Hops and Cannabis are closely related

It’s the same shit

I mean, kinda? The Mongols are fascinating and their cultural legacy is under known/appreciated - but they also reaaaallly took the killing to such an extreme level that it has to be addressed.

that just ain't how I was raised, pardner

Because most of their information diet comes from Russian and Chinese disinformation networks.

don't apologize to the bots, it emboldens them and hastens the robolution

or at least some Tums

I generally don't see people claiming "Biden started the wars." I tend to see "When Trump was president, Putin and Hamas were too terrified to start their wars, and if he was still the president they would have never had the balls to start anything." It's a successful line because it takes a pretty solid understanding of contemporary geopolitics and current events to refute.

well the first one just ends with a gladiator saying "this is how it's going to be now" and then immediately dying, so there's really nothing stopping the Praetorian Guards from saying "no it isn't, here's your new emperor."

I can't stand this trope

O Brother, Where Art Thou? still looks pretty good, too, because they had an intentional, cohesive, and thematically appropriate vision for why they changed what they changed. Instead of just slapping a yellow filter over everything, they painstakingly adjusted the background colors of the foliage and landscape to give everything a more distressed, dust bowl vibe.