Treating Foreign Women Like a Commodity

[SAT 9,609]

ah yes, such a submissive wife..true to form.

Humor...

(My wife is truly my better half...)

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

Ah...this is a question that my wife can answer...

Let me untie her and remove the gag-ball from her mouth so she can answer...

Does she have any recommendations? All the ones I've tried taste weird or don't sit right.

[Dan and Judy 614]

Ah...this is a question that my wife can answer...

Let me untie her and remove the gag-ball from her mouth so she can answer...

I don't think it is ever appropriate to use a ball gag on your wife.

[decocker 7,198]

(My wife is truly my better half...)

then by all means, keep her (tied) tight!

[SAT 9,609]

Does she have any recommendations? All the ones I've tried taste weird or don't sit right.

lol thank you Nola, for a moment I thought humor lost to sarcasm and disgust...

[SAT 9,609]

I don't think it is ever appropriate to use a ball gag on your wife.

But she yaps and nags me to death...trying to get any work done around here is torture lol.

[Dan and Judy 614]

I find that spider gags muffle the noise sufficiently without the possibility of her choking on her own vomit and having to go get a whole new wife

Edited January 29, 2013 by Dan and Judy

[Dr. Obvious 49]

Propaganda campaign

The government’s war time efforts to recruit women had several themes, the main one being patriotism. The campaigns told women that the war would end sooner if more women worked. Women were also warned that if they did not work then a soldier would die, people would call them slackers, and they were equivalent to men who avoided the draft (Rupp 96). Women who took war jobs were praised.

Another propaganda theme was high pay. The government cautioned, though, that wages should not be overemphasized or women might spend too much and cause inflation (Rupp 96).

As a way to lure young women into the factories, advertisers showed women workers as glamorous and even fashionable. They mentioned that women did not care much about their appearance while at work, but that they were still feminine underneath the dirt (Gregory 32). The campaigns equated factory work with housework as a way to alleviate women’s fears about working. Therefore, women already had the skills needed. But the government cautioned that war work should not look too easy or women might not take it seriously. This method reinforced women’s role as homemaker and that her main duty was to her home.

The government’s propaganda also called on husbands to encourage their wives to take jobs. It emphasized that it would not reflect poorly on the husbands and their ability to support their families if their wives worked (Rupp 96). The campaigns told men that they should feel pride when their wives took a job much the same way that they felt pride when their sons enlisted. This campaign was based on the assumption that women did not work because of their husbands’ objections (Rupp 153).

The government focused its propaganda campaigns on white middle-class families whose women were not already working. It did not target the women who were already in the workforce and switched to higher paying jobs without any encouragement. Although there was a lot of diversity among women workers, women of color were absent in advertisements. The stars of the campaign were middle-class domestic housewives with no work experience who would leave when the war was over.

At first, the propaganda campaigns featured the few women who worked in skilled and high-paying jobs, even though they were a small percentage of women workers. Not until there was a labor shortage in 1943 were the unglamorous, underpaid, low-status jobs a part of the propaganda campaigns (Rupp 142).

The propaganda campaigns used during the war never had any intention of bringing about permanent changes in women’s place in society. Rather, the government used them to fill temporary labor shortages with women workers.

http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/propaganda.htm

Tsk, tsk, another reason for real muricans not to trust the government. BRB, have to mine some more aluminum for my foil hats.

[SAT 9,609]

I find that spider gags muffle the noise sufficiently without the possibility of her choking on her own vomit and having to go get a whole new wife

it's better after you edited it lol.

[Rose13 30]

I clean because he does ALL the cooking

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

She works, cleans, and cooks. I don't know why she still lets me live here.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

German women are no where near as hardcore as Danish women. You want to stay home with your children and want to have men open doors for you and not slam in your face? You are weak and lazy! I think the Dane thought he'd be getting some perfect American housewife who always had a perfectly clean house and cooked 3 times a day. If only he knew....that I'd only cook like 6 times a week, let the cleaning go sometimes, and heavens forbid ask him to do the laundry twice, I think he would have opted to stay single.

It occurs to me that I never asked what my husband's expectations of an American woman were. The fact that I was foreign alone did enhance the relationship for him (he mentioned this a few times), but I don't know what points exactly. I'll probably annoy him with that question later this evening.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

I forgot all about this song. RELEVANT CONTENT :

Gray is life without you

Gray like the dust covering the table

Gray like the bread on the floor

Gray like the liverwurst

Under the bed

My fridge is empty

I have no clean socks

No one shops or sweeps

Pays attention to me

Puts up with me

Come back, life is too hard without you

Can’t you see

That what we had was great, right?

Who makes me coffee in the morning?

Who closes the door when I leave?

Who cleans the windows and the shoes?

Who brings the trash to the door?

Who, if not you?

Come back, life is too hard without you

Can’t you see

That what we had was great, right?

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

I forgot all about this song. RELEVANT CONTENT :

hah! Another in a similar vein in English

Put another log on the fire.

Cook me up some bacon and some beans.

And go out to the car and change the tyre.

Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.

Come on, baby, you can fill my pipe,

And then go fetch my slippers.

And boil me up another pot of tea.

Then put another log on the fire, babe,

And tell me why you're leaving me.

Now don't I let you wash the car on Sunday?

Don't I warn you when you're gettin fat?

Ain't I a-gonna take you fishin' with me someday?

Well, a man can't love a woman more than that.

Ain't I always nice to your kid sister?

Don't I take her driving every night?

So, sit here at my feet 'cos I like you when you're sweet,

And you know it ain't feminine to fight.

So, put another log on the fire.

Cook me up some bacon and some beans.

Go out to the car and lift it up and change the tyre.

Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.

Come on, baby, you can fill my pipe,

And then go fetch my slippers.

And boil me up another pot of tea.

Then put another log on the fire, babe,

And come and tell me why you're leaving me.

[Dr. Obvious 49]