cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24177764
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24063756
I am certain it’s a matter of different times and all that, but each of those women seems awesome and all of the guys seem kind of pathetic. In all of those, the guy seemed like he had the least to offer.
In these times the guy was the only one working all day to pay for the lifestyle.
He looks ragged, but we’ve all seen the needy entitlement of that generation in an office environment, and I’m just not buying it.
Women also were not allowed to have bank accounts
These are just moods. I’ve been every single one of these wives based on my mood. I must be a nightmare to live with
You’ve worn a flapper headband? Have you ever solved a murder mystery?
Yes and no. The two occasions for the flapper headband were under 12, and only because I was born in a village that loved to put on shows. Participation for children was mandatory to my memory.
I have not yet solved a murder mystery. There is still time. I have read the complete works of both Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle, so I’m ready when opportunity presents.
I think my dream girl is someone who solves a murder mystery while wearing a flapper headband. Like she’s ready to go to some big party involving super long cigarette holders but she carries a magnifying glass and a notebook in her purse and she doesn’t hesitate to start looking for clues and talking to witnesses when everyone finds the body sprawled on the drawing room floor!
“Now how did I kill my husband, again?” *scribbles furiously into notepad*
Check out Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries lol
I think I will! Thanks for the rec!
Gimme the tomboy
I’m down for all of these except “always cheerful”. There is such a thing as toxic positivity, and christ it’s draining.
I’ve had some mix of QuietHomeGirl+Industrious which was great, but we didn’t always have a lot to talk about. I’ve had Butterfly+SeriousAndClever and I just could not keep up.
I myself am Industrious (that’s my only defining characteristic here). I think HomeGirl+Tomboy could be a fun one.
Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.
Benjamin Franklin in his letter, “Advice to a Friend On Choosing a Mistress.”
all that to say that the sex is better with older women.
I tend to disagree. I for one can tell a person’s age primarily by their necks. There’s a reason scarfs are so popular among over-40s. For the face, there’s make-up and botox.
Use a bigger basket.
I would like my wife to tell me I am a good boy-ee.
Bearing in mind that objectification is wrong, clearly it’s a shitty to lump human beings into categories.
But everybody’s got a type.
And I’ll admit, if someone I fell in love with turned out to be a tomboy, or industrious, or serious and clever, as contradictory as it sounds… I’d SO fucking vibe.
I feel like there’s gotta be at LEAST ike two more choices
They missed the melancholy.
Lot of hanging around in graveyards, consulting mediums, wandering the moors in the rain, and sitting in a gloomy room writing or reading.
That’s the kind of wife I’d be.
Big dommy Tommy?
So apparently the wife hating trope started before the boomers. Disgusting.
Yeah historically women haven’t gotten the best treatment, it’s honestly insane
That’s how I read the posture differences between the husband and wife in each frame. No matter the wife, the husband always looks unhappy.
It’s a 6000 year old tradition.
