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Mom slaves away like a dog??

posted 11 years ago by LukeLovesFilm28
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What does dad do? He slaves away at a job. Do you really think it was a privilege for men to be the sole bread-winner? Don't you think they wanted to stay home with their children?

That scene where Charlie is laying on her bed, complaining that her mother slaves away like a dog perfectly describes modern feminism. A lazy, spoiled brat has nothing better to do than lay on her bed or sit on her ass, dreaming up new ways of ruining the world for everyone, simply because they have nothing better to do.

Did it ever occur to feminists like this that moms wanted to do this stuff? That they liked making and maintaining the nest? That it came as a natural instinct??

But, since the industrial age started, people in our society have been trying to live less and less naturally. The way everyone today is trying to permanent replace the pigment of their with tattoos says a lot about how artificial our society is.

If it's not broke, don't fix it. Given the amount of obese people / suicides in the 1950s compared to today, society was not broken. If you dream up some BS and convince yourself that it is broken, of course it's going to look broken.

[–] tmaj48 10 years ago

No, the mother did not want to spend her life doing drudge work all day long.
She most definitely did not want to be the prematurely old wife of a doddering old
fool who hardly acknowledged her or their children. Dad "slaved away" for eight
or so hours a day, then came home and wasted his time with silly stories, ignoring
his wife and children. Meanwhile, mom spent the entire day tending his house and
his children, and her reward was being ignored for herself, but only being the
24-hour-a-day housekeeper. When her younger brother arrives, she nearly breaks
down, remembering her previous life when she was a young woman, not a faded, lonely housewife. News flash: Moms may have wanted to do this stuff to some degree, but they wanted some recognition as people, too, which a lot of married
women back then did not get. Hitchcock had more sympathy for women than he was given
credit for.

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

[–] novastar_6 10 years ago

Do you really think it was a privilege for men to be the sole bread-winner? Don't you think they wanted to stay home with their children?

Yeah there was SUCH a lobby of men coming home from WWII fighting tooth and nail to stay home and man the house and kids for a change and let wifey poo keep working at the factory like she'd been doing during his whole leave, that was just fine with the men, oh WAIT!

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[–] avia2 9 years ago

[Quote]But, since the industrial age started, people in our society have been trying to live less and less naturally[quote] The industrial age actually encouraged this separation of roles. Previously, both parents would have worked in the farm and earned the family bread.

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[–] Noir-It-All 9 years ago

Honestly, I was surprised that, at her age, Charlie was even able to lie on her bed in her own room instead of finishing up at work somewhere. Or, in that era, able to speak about her mother that way to her father. My father would have whacked me.

I guess the script called for it because it showed that the two Charlie's thought alike, especially when laying about, living on income from someone else.

[–] liscarkat (19385) 7 years ago

I don't necessarily disagree with the original poster's position; however, I find it surprising that this movie inspired such an angry rant.

[–] fzane (1184) 6 years ago

Just another idiot who doesn't understand another decade other than their own.