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Umm...it's an article about getting boys to read and the long-term effects of meeting boys where they are. I'm guessing they didn't emphasize being good wives a
by ryanwaggoner 16y ago
Umm...it's an article about getting boys to read and the long-term effects of meeting boys where they are. I'm guessing they didn't emphasize being good wives and mothers because boys rarely grow up to be wives and mothers.
- rpbertp13 16y agoThat is clearly not where I'm coming from. I'm just trying to point out how an analogous article today that would make such emphasis would probably strike most people as inappropriate or chauvinistic. Don't you agree?
- astine 16y agoThat's because people associate 'good wife' with a subservient wife. Feminism has encouraged women to act in their own interests rather than their families interests for some time now and the values have sunk into the culture. 'Good husband' doesn't have that connotation and for better or for worse, people still think that husbands should care for their wives and children and be respectable people themselves.