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Originally Posted by DanaC
It's the late 70s - early 80s and the world is changing. She is an appalling housewife - can't cook to save her or anybody else's life but she tries. She is completely stifled by her respectable, lower-middle class life - it's bitter sweet.
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Was talking with a friend about this generally the other day. For several decades now women have been told "you can do anything you want to do!" and I think this directly translated into NOT teaching them basic life skills. Cooking and cleaning have been seen as menial jobs in the employment sense, rather than something everyone should be able to do regardless of education or career. And then most of these women ended up running a home after all, whether working or not, and were (are) completely unprepared for the task. My maternal line hasn't known shit about cooking in three generations. Word is my great-grandmother was awesome at it, but she didn't teach my grandmother, because my grandmother was smart and was going to college, for goodness' sake! I've had a late but intensive education on the subject, and you'd better believe both my son and daughter will not leave this house without understanding the principals of cooking.