Heaven forbid wives do something nice for their husbands!

I happened to stumble across one of those "1950's ads that didn't age so well" videos on YouTube.

Some of the ads in question have indeed not aged well at all. Such as a medical doctor (or, at a minimum, someone claiming to be) exalting the virtues of smoking a particular brand of cigarettes. Or an ad showing medical research results about how a particular brand of cigarette is good for the throat and sinuses. Or an advertisement about a beauty product containing actual radioactive radium (with the ad prominently stating that fact, and claiming that it's not dangerous in such low doses.)

The same video, however, also had a couple of ads that showed an archetypal 1950's happy housewife doing something nice for her husband, like for example preparing and serving him coffee (or the particular brand being advertised, of course.)

And... that's it. The was nothing more to it in those ads than that. Both had the actress talk about how she wanted to make her husband happy after a long work day with a good cup of coffee, with the husband thanking her for that. And that's it. Nothing more to it.

Apparently, these were ads that "didn't age so well."

Yeah, heaven forbid a wife would want to do something nice for her husband! The horror! Such an antiquated concept! All wives should be insufferable nagging second and third wave feminists who make a marriage as miserable as possible. How dare a woman want to actually be nice and kind and do something for her husband as a show of love and respect! That's unacceptable!

(And yes, this is something that, rather obviously, should go both ways. In a good healthy relationship both partners love and care about each other, want to be nice, kind and respectful to each other, show appreciation to each other, and do little gestures of kindness and appreciation for each other. It's the little things in life that make a relationship work. To love and feel loved, to appreciate and feel appreciated, to care and know that your partner cares about you, to do small acts of kindness and love and to be the recipient of such acts. That's what a good healthy relationship should be.)