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Do all men want a submissive barbie doll of a housewife?
Eh, Probably not. Some men have always wanted a Stepford wife; the size of the group however, varies depending on the time period. During the 1950/60’s Women were told that being at home with the children was “the dream”, and with the immeasurable amount of pressure placed upon them, woman succumbed to a patriarchal societies demands. Around the 1970s however, women finally began to act on the depression and dissatisfaction of what they were doing with their time. Women wanted a life outside of the house; powered with the ideology of books like The Feminine Mystique the 1970s quickly turned into the second wave of feminism. In 1972 Ira Levin published

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