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'How to get a husband': Cringeworthy 1950s dating article advises women to 'cry softly in a corner' and 'stumble into a room' to attract eligible men

Alice Murphy For Daily Mail Australia
 
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A 1958 magazine article advising women on how to attract a partner has surfaced on the internet, triggering a frenzy across social media.

Titled '129 Ways to Get a Husband', the feature in American magazine McCall's included a varied body of tips ranging from bizarre and desperate to downright sexist and politically incorrect.

One of the more outrageous instructions told women to be flexible about their potential partner's decisions: 'If he decides to skip the dance and go rowing on the lake, GO – even if you are wearing your best evening gown'.

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No government in the 12,000 years of modern mankind history has led its people into anything but the history books with a simple lesson, don't let this happen to you.

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How things change. Crying softly in the corner is what I have to do to get fed most nights.

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What the eff is it any business of the stupid Limeys what we were putting in magazines 70 years ago? Piss up a rope you crooked toothed bastards.

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What the eff is it any business of the stupid Limeys what we were putting in magazines 70 years ago? Piss up a rope you crooked toothed bastards.

You seem to be a bit cross tonight, @Frank Cannon.

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How things change. Crying softly in the corner is what I have to do to get fed most nights.

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What the eff is it any business of the stupid Limeys what we were putting in magazines 70 years ago? Piss up a rope you crooked toothed bastards.

You know how a British woman cleans her ass?

She waits for him to get drunk, then throws him in the tub.

Cheers, mate!

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You seem to be a bit cross tonight, @Frank Cannon.

Listening to a bunch of losers who have a disgraceful history mocking us for an article 70 years ago is bullshit.

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   It's not purposeful @Frank Cannon It's for entertainment only.
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Listening to a bunch of losers who have a disgraceful history mocking us for an article 70 years ago is bullshit.

Agree but you're not passing out candy tonight, are you?

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How things change. Crying softly in the corner is what I have to do to get fed most nights.

Poor baby!   I was raised a preacher's kid.  I feed whatever comes thru the door since that was the rule at our house.   
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Cringeworthy indeed...the article should be titled "How to Come Across as Desperate" ... OR "How NOT to Get A Husband". 

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Agree but you're not passing out candy tonight, are you?

No. I hide in the bushes with an air horn and yell at the kids cutting across my lawn.

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The idea to get a convertible sounds good to me.  :cool:

Some of these ideas aren't terrible. Take up hiking, learn to bake pies. No man can resist a good apple pie and you have to burn the calories somehow.

That said I'll leave the real evaluation to the womenfolk, this is a game I cannot understand as far as I can tell they use magic.
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You seem to be a bit cross tonight, @Frank Cannon.

He seems his usual charming self to me.

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He seems his usual charming self to me.

You're effing right GD it.

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My, how "woke" feminism and political correctness has changed what used to be the "standard" of the day to "cringeworthy" today.  Times change, people change...what a bunch of politically cowrecked snowflakes...piss off wankers.  Always looking for something to be "offended" about...sick of this BS.
« Last Edit: November 01, 2018, 04:50:27 am by SZonian »
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Boy did Grandpa have it made. No wonder they had more kids back then. The broads had their shit together.

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Thought you were supposed to spray it in the air. Well, that explains some things.

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Thought you were supposed to spray it in the air. Well, that explains some things.

That's why Dave won't sleep with you. You've been using it wrong.

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Boy did Grandpa have it made. No wonder they had more kids back then. The broads had their shit together.

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Feminists have run out of stuff to get pissed off about so they had to dig up an article from the 1950's.

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Today's women don't want husbands. They may want their money or status, but marriage is just an inconvenience to the millennial woman.
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