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The NOT so fabulous 50's

Veg, You crack me up!!!!! So that is what those perky housewifes were thinking in all those ads in Better Homes & Gardens and the like huh???? Leave it to you to sniff out the truth....YOU GO VEG!!!!!!!
 
Holy Moly!!!

If this is what being a stay at home mom is like......I'm getting a job!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
 
The other day; Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem were discussing the realities of American suburban life and the Womens movement during the 1960's and '70s on a tv news documentary.

They said the advertising during post WWII would have you believe the "housewife" could have an orgasm while waxing the kitchen floor. LOL, Veg's pictures would seem to confirm that portrayal of women and American living at that time.

I've also heard somewhere, that Elizabeth Montgomery had grown a bit tired of her role in Bewitched because of her homemaker status. Sweeping changes among women were taking place at the time and plenty of other social issues & turmoil going on, but she was more or less trapped in her Frigidaire kitchen, that we all know and love so well.

All in all and intersting and amusing look at our past!
 
Sad actually

I really can't see why being a stay at home mom or housewife would be considered slavery, as some women activists would tell you. I guess I'm spoiled because I was fortunately raised in a home with a stay at home mom and I couldn't see living in otherwise conditions. I'm not against women getting jobs or getting "out of the kitchen". I'm not like that but I think something's missing in today's society.

Homemaking, it's not what it used to be.
 
I think the pictures and captions are hilarious, and I think it's good to laugh at ourselves and situations regardless of our lot in life, but I definitely agree with Jason. Well said!
 
Diary of a Mad Housewife!!

I proudly wear the badge of "STAY AT HOME MOM". Here are a few things that you might not know:

I haven't run away with the UPS man, but he and the FedEx guy know me on sight and we always wave to each other.

Who needs D-Con? I have made a disaster of my kitchen creations on more than one occasion. Even the dog wouldn't eat them.

Prozac!!! Baby I need caffeine!!! It's the beverage of choice for modern day housewives.

Lobotomy? I insist that I'm still as sharp as a bowling ball!!

I had to wipe for a week after we got the Bosch D/W. It's the little things in life that make me happy :)

But seriously......The best thing I ever did was quit my job to stay home with my children. I'm no domestic diva and I get CHS (crazy housewife syndrome), but I do my best. The kids may not appreciate it now, but I hope that down the road they will look back on their wacky mom and smile; knowing that she was always there when they needed her.
 
YAY FOR VENUS!!!!!

Venus, like my mom and Brianne's mom, you're the special breed of women known as the "housewife" or "stay at home mom". Homemaking isn't dead yet. It's just being overshadowed by homewrecking.
 
I'm with Jason & Retromom here. My mom was full-time at home, and I'm sure that made a difference.

In any case, there is something to be envied about a job that is basically secure and is concerned with "intrinsics" such as running a household and raising a loving family, rather than being all about money money money money and the endless rat race of competition.

Really. Mammonism (worship of money) has become the New Religion and it is frankly evil. Bring back more of the old values, including loyalty between employers and employees, and lifetime relationships, and all that stuff. And let's stagger the work schedules so each parent can be at home half the week.

Hoo-boy aren't I square?:-)
 
veg its wasnt prozac

It was miltown (SP), MD's wrote Rx's for them in the late 50's by the zillions. I guess it was an antidepressant, The guy's came home from WWII. The Homemaker was elevated on a pedestal just like the lady with the Frigidaire Crown. The house with the picture window in levitown a 50's icon, and all the ads for these fabulous 50's appliances we just love. A phenomenal sell sell sell economy in the fifties. Many women came to resent this role, pushed by Mostly Men in advertising. These stepford ladies were the founders of the womens movement of the late sixties and early 70's. Magic Clean is right other things were happening too. Margaret Sangers work with birth control "The Pill", Peyton Place was published by Grace Metallious, poor Grace knew her life was not the glamour depicted in an appliance ad. By the time the 50's came to pass, the world was a very different place. OMG where is my Prozac...
 
Sorry to be the smarta$$

Miltown is one of the very first non Benzodiazepine drugs of the mid century used to treat anxiety disorders. It was (and is) quite the powerful tranquilizer. It RARELY used today due to it's high level of side effects and birth defects. Sorry, just wanted to clear that up. I can't help myself when it comes to my job field. :)

Geoff (AKA Fred, your friendly Pharm-ASSIST)
 
Mother's little helper

Mother's Little Helper
(Jagger/Richards)

What a drag it is getting old
"Kids are different today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day

"Things are different today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak
And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day

Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old

"Men just aren't the same today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
They just don't appreciate that you get tired
They're so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight

Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old

"Life's just much too hard today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
The pusuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose
No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day
 
Miltown was the brand name of "meprobamate," which was, yes, a major tranquilizer, available by prescription. But if all you needed was an occasional calm-down, you could always reach for com-poz, "Compoz, the little blue pill." (pronounced "compose"), which was over-the-counter. I think that one was a mild barbiturate. Mix either with alcohol and you could die, as I'm sure many a suicide did by intention.

In one of the most ironic name-ironies of all time, the great proponent of frontal lobotomies was a Dr. Freeman, whose patients were anything but free men or women when he was done with them. It finally took Kesey's novel _Cukoo's Nest_ to drive home the point that lobotomies were a form of soul-murder.

For treatment of depression, electroshock therapy was recommended. Now in fact it actually does work, BUT so does a tiny electrical current passed through earclips at a level that not only doesn't cause a convulsion, but doesn't have any noticeable overt affect at all... just the alleviation of the depression! The latter point would take another three decades to discover, and in the meantime, legions of depressed women (and to a lesser extent, men) would end up going through something that resembled a trip to the electric chair except they got to come back.

What I do not understand is why there was such a high prevalence of anxiety disorders in particular, at a time when things were the most secure and prosperous they had been in the past three decades.

Or perhaps what we were seeing at that time was what today would be recognized as a pandemic of post-traumatic stress syndrome, with its origins in the Depression and WW2.
 
Thanks Geoff and Design

You two are so right I think that after WWII some women that worked in war factories and such, were discontent when the troops came home. Women were no longer satisfied with just the homemaking and child rearing responsibilities, and those that worked were usually secretaries, beauticians, nurses, All of this really changed during the war years. Women more than ever wanted out of the house and a career that was not stereotypical. I realize how lucky I am, that my mom was a 100% Mother and Homemaker.
 
Stay at home Mom's

Of course, there's also the problem that today, few households, expecially with kids can AFFORD to not have both parents working. And even if one can parent can support the household, these days circumstances can change in an instant and force both parents to work.
 

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