Training your husband
I just came across both a funny and slightly disturbing book called The New Bride's Guide to Training her Husband , by Emily and Ken Addison. I thought it was going to be a joke, but no, these people are serious (either that or I missed the punchline). It isn't even the only husband training book out there, but this particular book's thesis is that men need to be dominated, and that women are better suited to manage a marriage and husbands, and therefore, should be in charge of both. I grew up in the Dick and Jane era, when "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father knows best" were not reruns. Then in my late teens, the bras were burned, white and male Dick's role was to be forever typecast as the perennial "Don't Bee" screw up in every elementary school post structuralist morality play. Reading the New Bride's Guide got me reflecting on something that has been bugging me for a long time. In the post WWII "Mad Men" e