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Quickly. Feministing.com linked to this page from Good Housekeeping, 1955 and I remembered someone forwarded it to me on Valentine's Day about two years ago. (It was making the rounds at the office.)
Reading it- and of course, it is very very funny and very very silly- I was somewhat chilled because it sounds so very very much like Caitlin Flanagan, about whom I have had some words.
That 1955 page could be taken as camp if it weren't created in all sincerity, and this is what troubles me about the strong revival of this language. Cloaked in "common sense" and prescriptive practicality, and made to seem so wise, this advice is really about endless disembling and disguise. A half wit would know that relationships are happier when both parties talk to and listen to each other. And, by extension, a half wit would understand that both parties should get to talk and listen equally.
So it's all funny ha-ha, but Caitlin Flanagan is tapping away at her word processor, waiting until we double over with laughter to bite us on the ass.
posted by Elise at 12:44 PM
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It's not from Good Housekeeping, and it isn't real.
3/28/2006 10:52 AM
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3/28/2006 12:41 PM
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