And, how crude people these days have become! To prefer pushy, grouchy women and wussy, whinny men to friendliness and cozy, elegant style.
Darling, people were crude back in the "good old days" too. For some reason, loads of people are under the absurd notion that people who lived before the before 1970 were all like June and Ward Cleaver and every town was like Mayberry. Those people and towns surely existed as they do today but there were still murders, rapes, pedophiles, adulterers, unwed mothers and any other "crude" thing you can fathom. People were merely less overt about things. We're also more connected with the world which makes it appear that every thing is going to hell. It's not. We're just more aware of the world around us and the media loves to focus on the bad things because, at our core, we're bloodlusty creatures who would rather read about the glitchy details of a murder than a man saving children from a fire.
There were also pushy, grouchy women and wussy men before that dastardly women's lib came along. I find it startling that other women think they have to make a choice - be a mindless Stepford wife or be some militant, frigid cow. The point of feminism wasn't to draw a line between the two but to give women a choice. If you want to be a cooking powerhouse who keeps an immaculate house and lives to please your children and husband - great! If you want high flying career - great. One choice isn't better than the other except to the person who makes the choice.
And yes, you missed the entire point of this satirical film. If you don't like your partner, change him or her. Don't force a person into indentured servitude to please yourself.
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