Traditional Marriage and Sex Roles in 1954 Look Like Feminist Marriage and Sex Roles Today
Note, this was made in 1954. As with anything, if it resonates, it has truth in it.
For those that don’t know, standards and practices in 1954 were such that they couldn’t come right out and say a number of things. The sailor outfits on her previous suitors say they pump-and-dumped her, and her “brothers” really were her bastard kids.
Daisy was a slutty single mother!
The Dun & Bradstreet book was the mother looking up Donald’s net worth. Provider Tool Uber Alles!
The delusion that the 1950’s were this nirvana of perfect Biblical marriage keeps a lot of tradcon feminists from seeing the truth: Marriage 2.0 has existed for a very long time, the idea of “Biblical God-given marriage” has been non-existent for a very long time, and feminist marriage existed long before the name Betty Friedan was ever known.
Isn’t it amazing how similar the narrative is in the manosphere today regarding marriage, as it is in this piece made back in 1954?
If you read all of the old materials that get posted up once in a while in the manosphere on the 1900s to 1920s you’ll see the same things. In fact, not surprisingly this was that 20ish or so year period that led up to the 19th ammendment being ratified in 1920.
I’d say that was approximately when the “rot” of feminism and/or “equality” really started to make an impact and it was just hiding under the surface until the 1950s and 1960s when it became more prominent. As technology increased in homes and allowed women more freedom there became more discontent. That’s why the Bible says that women should not be busybodies and the like in 1 Timothy and Titus 2.
It’s existed all along but more at some times than others.
Something that’s kind of stuck with me in watching this is whether there was an intended meaning out of making Daisy’s mother a caricature of Whistler’s Mother. Perhaps this is another shot on what true motherhood and family values were in 1954. To quote that site:
Perhaps this narrative literally *was* family values in 1954?
Donald ended up being an MGTOW. And he wasn’t the first. Men and women, because of their fallen nature, have always messed up their marriages (along with everything else).
1950s America wasn’t the utopia so many make it out to be. Society was already far down the slope of its (so far) irreversible decline.
The Cartoon itself mimics a few marriages I know of Today and mines is very similar.
Interesting post. Thank you.
Also, I love Donald duck, old cartoons are the best. Like tom and jerry too.