Reply #3: You have to understand the 50s [View All]

[Warpy]

Women were forced out of their jobs either when they married or when they got pregnant with the first kid. They were largely ghettoized in suburbs with no transportation during the week. Shopping was done on Saturday morning with a grousing husband who wanted to be on the couch watching sports driving the car. Sunday mornings were the only other outing, the day they got to put on their best clothes and go to church. The rest of the week, they were confined in the house with only the company of children and other ghettoized women. No wonder they drank and took Miltown.

Bored women came up with this junk, either out of a desire to be creative at something, anything, with limited resources or as revenge on a larger culture that had put them under house arrest for the crime of being female.