Was this guy serious or engaging in satire?

[NightTrain]

The following letter appeared in the "Speak Out" column of a local periodical called the Reminder Community News. I can't decide if the writer is a complete moron or if he has created a work of satire. You tell me:

"Whatever happened to good old-fashioned values? There was a time when a gal got hitched and was happy to honor and obey her husband.

"What is wrong with society today is that men and woman have forgotten their roles. A woman cannot be truly happy without a good man. Women need the structure of being both a homemaker and a mother.

"There are times when it is appropriate for a gal to work outside the home in a part-time job. However, women working full-time can lead to romance with a co-worker and can ruin the marriage.

"I was married in 1943, and it has worked because we stuck to this formula."

[qwertyMike]

Worked for you Bubba . . .

How about the Missus?
You didn't ask her?

OK

[kixot]

1. If it's satire it's too subtle.

This sounds for real.

[Aristus]

2. Hmm. I rather suspect this guy is in earnest.

There are a lot of people out there like that. They are all either guys or brain-dead, submissive cows in women's clothing. One letter like this that I read, the author was calling women a man's "helpmeet". How 11th Century is that?

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. By the gods, I hope so

How totally retro.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. I think

Skittles should kick his ass I would but I am to old

63 next month <yippee>

[trof]

8. That's no excuse!

You're about 6 months ahead of me. I get my first S/S check this month.
When you can't kick ass physically anymore, do it verbally.
;-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Both of you should kick his ass!

Liberal elders need to speak up more, and offer the counter voice to these retro thinking :puke:-people, and say, "Hey - idiot - we're married since forever, also, and we just treated each other like human beings, not roles to be fulfilled, so phhhhhhhht."

[SoCalDem]

4. If he married in 43, he was from a generation

that had rigid structure.. Women did not work outside the home back then..

That man was raised by parents of the victorian era.. Only "lower class" women worked back then... It was up to the man to be the "head of household" and support the family.. If a man died young, and the woman had no close family, she went to work, but jobs were not that available..

Women did not enter the workforce in any great numbers, until the men went off to war in WWII, and most of them went right back home to have babies, when the men returned..

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WOMEN'S LIBERATION WAS ABOUT..

The letterwriter's wife would have been raised in the same culture, so she probably did not mind ..

[youngred]

5. Sounds serious to me

:shrug:

[havocmom]

7. Sounds serious and locked in a time warp

I know it is hard for some of the younger DUers to imagine, but this was once the general view of gender roles.

[trof]

9. way too subtul for me

I think he's for real.

[dofus]

11. My parents were married in 1942

and my mom worked outside the home much of the marriage. She left my dad after twenty years because he was an alcoholic and was becoming very abusive and she realized that she'd be much better off without him. So she packed up the five of us (oldest was away in the army by then) and moved us across the country and started a new life for all of us. Best thing she ever did.

I've been in what looks like a traditional marriage for over twenty years myself, meaning I don't work outside the home and have two kids. This has worked for us.

There's no one way to make it work. Treating each other with dignity and respect is the essential thing, in my opinion.

[Mikimouse]

12. Scary, ain't it? If you think that;s bad, take a look

at the web .Do a search using the keywords-'repeal the 19th Amendment' and read what it brings up. This petition has been around for about 4 years and people are still periodically signing it (Women's vote is to blame for the state of the economy, the decline of the nuclear family, the decline of traditional values, etc.). Darn sneaky women! Who would ever have thought they could be so crafty? And with no other weapon than a vote, to boot? Like, WOW!;-) :evilgrin:

[Blue-Jay]

13. Whatever happened to "obey"?

Maybe if that was still in the wedding vows, I'd be married by now.

(pssst. that was a joke)