Back to the 60's

Anyone who is familiar with the 60's housewife image must know that it involves a hairstyle that withstands wind, a flare skirt with a constant apron, make up even while bustling in the kitchen, and a welcoming smile that is always there to welcome their husbands and guests when they get home after a long day of work.

During the 1960s the trend of the housewife and the nuclear family continued to be portrayed within the media. Women within the home were still confined to limited roles, yet they were depicted as having more power. This new twist on the housewife arose in response to women challenging the ideal post war image. Kennedy’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, established in 1961, and Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, contributed to the growing concern for the need of women’s fulfillment and opportunity outside of the home. Women were prepared for marriage at a young age and were brainwashed into accepting gender roles which confined them to their duties in keeping a perfect nuclear family.

How different is our society these days? With women empowerment on a boom and women holding equal if not higher roles in society compared to men?

From the recent couch potato-ing while watching tv series which i have been doing, it is quite obvious that we are heading back to the 60's without us being conscious of it. I personally fear for the younger generation who are growing up to be women in less than a decade. With Tv programs such as "One Tree Hill", "Gossip Girls", and "90210", teenagers are portrayed in such a fashion that seems fashionable to the younger crowd, but what might seem detrimental to those who are skeptical and analytical like myself. Only yesterday did it dawn on me that the characters in these series are babies, teenagers, minors, or young adults who are barely matured enough to hold their liquor, let alone have babies and get married. The media is subconsciously portraying that it is okay to live with the here and now, and marriage as a solution, instead of thinking things over the see how their actions of living as a teenager in a certain way might attribute consequences to the rest of their lives. Sex, lies, deceit, promiscuity, drama and settling down at and earlier age doesn't really keep them as far as we might think from the 60's housewives image that we know off.

Before you say that i am coming across as old and obsolete, think about what kind of generation we are bringing up and how keeping a child sane and responsible is probably going to be a harder challenge that keeping the child away from drugs and sex. The norm is becoming the exceptional. Do you really want to raise your child in a situation that goes against our gradient of norm?