[ SECRET POST #5532 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5532 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 35 secrets from Secret Submission Post #792.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You could buy a decent house on a single low middle class wage in the fifties. If you were white, at least.

[(Anonymous)]

They were not. They drank gin, not beer.

Re: Motorbike question.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks.

[meadowphoenix]

No offense, but your not desire is not about being a housewife in the 40s-60s, since you know good and full well at best those shows were about relationships more idealistically respectful than actually representative.

More importantly, all of those housewives think about money and survival, like quite literally in those shows you mentioned. Why do you think Samantha is so worried about fucking up Darren's job? Laura does the household budget! There are multiple episodes in those shows where women talk about the prices of food, of clothes, of class which is very much about the display of money and what they can afford. Many of the real housewives then were solely in charge of the household budget and would be judged on their ability to manage their husband's vices. No offense but there is zero time at which people of any gender did not have survival and money concerns in a way that wasn't specifically about how many resources they actually held.

Your desire is about being cared for in a structured and unsolicited way and being able to give back without taxing yourself. I think most people want something close to that. But no housewife had that certainty either.

[(Anonymous)]

It's always nice to imagine outsourcing various responsibilities and worries to other people, but I think in practice a lot of post-war couples still tackled things like income and budget as a team, so even if the wife didn't have to earn the money she still had to worry about ot.

[(Anonymous)]

I understand what you mean, anon. I like to be taken care of too, and adulthood is taxing af for most of us, so I imagine a lot of other people feel the same way. Its not wrong to want to be happy!

But be careful what you wish for: I was a child who grew up in this type of household in the 60s/70s (I'm a fanom Olde), with working father and stay-at-home mother. My father went to work, my mother literally did EVERYTHING ELSE. She was often overworked and stressed, and because I was the oldest and also a girl, I was put to work helping her. My father couldn't turn the stove on to save his life, didn't know how to operate a washer, didn't even know how to cook the simplest of meals, because he never had to learn. He would help my mother with yard work and they painted the house together once, but that was the extent of it. They both worked, but my mother didn't get to retire.

[(Anonymous)]

You would definitely still worry about money if your husband was the type to get his pay packet and drink most of it away within the first few hours.

For real this. But I get the idea that op is talking more about the fantasy aspect of that lifestyle, because Rob Petrie would NEVER!

(frozen comment) Re: How was your weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

My heart goes out to you, anon, please stay safe

[(Anonymous)]

Same, OP! There are very few artists I take a look at outside of the contest, but these guys were one of them.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't. :0( What the heck is this secret about? How is it fandom related??

[(Anonymous)]

I don't watch Family Guy for years. But I do think the idea of Meg leaving and things work out for her is cathartic.

[meadowphoenix]

Really? You really can't see the difference between medication as a panacea for non-compliance to an idealistic gender standard and medication which is supposed to specifically apply to a specific ailment so that you can learn other techniques?

It's the difference between going to the doctor and getting amphetamines no matter why you say you can't go to work, and going to the doctor and getting a splint for a broken leg, but aspirin for a headache.

[(Anonymous)]

yup, all the time. I get a lot more self-aware.

[sparklywalls]

Precisely. Fantasy? Fine. Some husbands of that era in fiction are everything you'd want them to be in that set up.

But here in real life, the bar is extremely low and a lot of men would still manage to hit their head on it.

[(Anonymous)]

I am worried a F!S user is on the verge of stalking Pedro Pascal.

[(Anonymous)]

So much agreed.

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP, but I'm here for all the Pedro Pascal/Mando love.

I mean, where else is OP supposed to gush about their space daddy thirst? Hmm? Yeah sure, Tumblr, etc. But maybe they just want to squee occasionally and don't want the commitment of a whole website.

He's currently on break in my usual rotation, but thirst on, OP!

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but what's your fandom???

[(Anonymous)]

Welcome to the club, OP!

We all join for different reasons, but enjoy it all the same!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, house work is 24/7 job, where's a regular job is 9/5. Especially with kids, especially kids with special needs or something similar. I mean there's a lot stay at home mothers, and I do not envy them.

[(Anonymous)]

For my spicier secrets, yes.

[(Anonymous)]

My understanding had been that this would have been a standard for treatment of mental health issues during the period in general? That that's just what the state of the art for mental health treatment, for treatment of depression for instance, was at the time.

[dancingmouse]

If it can be EXACTLY like the idealistic fantasy on TV, I'd love to be a housewife. I'd even raise kids if that were the case. Sadly, like others have mentioned, it doesn't work that way in reality.

[pantswarrior]

...Yeah.

I have been both entirely dependent on other people (not a partner) and had a partner entirely dependent on me in the past. I would take "making it on my own" over either, though "everything split equally" was definitely nice while it lasted.

I could see how either being the supporter or the supported can be a happy fantasy though, where everything is going okay and no one is unhappy with the situation.

[dancingmouse]

OP is thirsting really hard over the Mandalorian/Pedro Pascal. That's a screen shot from said show.