Are You Ready For Marriage? Quiz 1950

[ismnotwasm]

http://www.retronaut.com/2011/10/are-you-ready-for-marriage-quiz-1950/

[niyad]

1. let me guess--there is no companion quiz for husbands??

[longship]

2. More like fricaseed brains, this one is.

Or like Father Knows Best, where men always rule and women know, or are put in, their place.

Lot of that stuff still going on. Sadly.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Worst relationship eveeeer

Yuck. Just yuck.

[Scuba]

4. "Without a word, you fuck off the radio switch!"

That old newsprint can be hard to read!!

[Nay]

6. Oh, god, that's what I read, too. Said to myself, "WTF? Is that really the f word in there??"

It took me a minute to realize it was "flick." My laugh for the day!

[Democracyinkind]

5. Wow. It must have been hell.

If this didn't even raise eyebrows back then. The wife is discussed as some kind of retarded animal, not a human being. I read it for the Lulz (love that retro stuff) but now I'm feeling kind of depressed. How did my mother and grandmother turn out to be such decent persons when subjected to such shit? Not that things are rosy today... But this comic boggles my mind. What kind of man would even want a wife like that?

[redqueen]

7. The same kind that fetishize Asian women today.

There are plenty of men today who proudly proclaim their desire for a submissive, obedient woman. And many of them are racist assholes who think Asian women are like that.

[Squinch]

8. Thankfully, none of us is ready for marriage. I love the way they include the "right"

answers upside down, so you know.

Think of how lucky we are not to have been born back then. I'd have been on death row in a well-ironed jiffy.