Are You A Good Wife? (assuming you scored well on the Likely to Marry quiz)

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As a follow-up to our Likely to Marry quiz, we once again present the findings from the World O'Crap blog. Note that this also follows the Bush Admin's Marriage Plan, which astute readers will notice gets half-a-billion more in funding than the increase given to NASA to do the whole "get us to another planet & back" thing.

This time, our quiz comes from the September 1949 Ladies' Home Journal. Perhaps you can also give this quiz to the poor people apparently targeted by the new plan, just to give 'em a diagnostic. Anyways:

Are You a Good Wife?
1. Does he think you are affectionate and loving?
2. Does he like the meals you serve him?
3. Can you cheer him up when he is depressed?
4. Do you manage to stay within your budget?
5. Can you accept his viewpoint when you two disagree?
6. Does he like the social life you provide?
7. When he is tired, do you see that he rests?
8. Does he take a real interest in the home?
9. Are you responsive to his gestures of affection?
10. Do you welcome your husband's friends?
11. Have you any habits that greatly annoy him?
12. Does your temper often get the better of you?
13. Is there friction between you and his relatives?
14. Do you often "check up" on him and his actions?
15. Are you frequently tired and irritable?
Credit 1 point for each Yes to the first 10 questions and each No to the last 5. You should be proud of a score of 13 or more, since 10 is about average. Something is wrong if you score 8 or less. You may still be a home wife but you need to analyze your incorrect answers to find how you can make improvements.

You have 10 minutes. Remember! Spelling counts!

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Feel free to read anything into these questions that you wish. Because I have a puerile brane, i see the Do you often "check up" on him and his actions? question as relating to whether you bother him when he's wanking it to net pr0n.

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

omg I totally failed this is just like Geology all over again, thanks.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Does he like the social life you provide?

Wtf is that supposed to mean?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

perhaps you need to bring home random drinkin' buddies for you husband to watch TV with?

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I got 12.

― Pinklady (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I am very proud that I am an average wife (10). I expected a far lower score.

Whre is the husband quiz?

― quincie, Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, then, PP, do you accept his viewpoint when the two of you two disagree? i mean, after taking care of screaming children all day, providing him a social life, making him take an interest in the home, and NOT being tired & irritable, do you just automatically give in and accept anything he happens to say?

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

from the blog:

Of course, it takes two to make a marriage work. While Ladies Home Journal offered no comparable quiz for husbands, I did find some advice for you married men which I will present in our next Healthy Marriage Seminar. It comes from an unlikely source. . .

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

wtf? Yes, i dont take care of kids all day, ...., he doesnt, i am, no!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

well, this is why your score isn't higher...

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, I'm happy with where it is!

― Pinkchampagne (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you accept his viewpoint when you two disagree?

In '49, who thought women actually had a viewpoint, other than not to burn the roast?

I'm shuddering from visions of Stepford wives with this question.

omg I totally failed this is just like Geology all over again, thanks.

I'll see you in remedial, Ally, as I just scored myself, and failed the quiz big-time. Proof that the 'happy homemaker' went the way of the ark.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

13 points. I'm a good wife! I guess.

― america's first municipal lunatic asylum (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

9. Are you responsive to his gestures of affection?

uh, hmm.....

(this is terrible!!)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't actually fail, I got 10. I was disqualified from the cooking section as my kitchen hasn't worked in over a year thanks to broken stove. I decided the question about providing a social life meant "Do you wear slutty elf outfits?"

― Allyzay, Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't even need to take this quiz to know that I'd be a really good wife to some really good woman. Now, to find said woman, drug her, and convince her she's my wife when she wakes up....

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I was disqualified from the cooking section as my kitchen hasn't worked in over a year thanks to broken stove.

(arched brow) A year? Why haven't you hogtied the landlord into fixing it, yet? (She asks, suspecting they are currently sunning their arses in Bermuda)

(How have you been, BTW? Not kvetching too badly at joining the ranks of the "smart unemployed", I hope? Can tell ya there are worse fates.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I got 8, and there is no way I would change to get more than that. I still think I'm a good wife. The point is, I'm a good wife to the only person that it matters to.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

That "Does he like the social life you provide?" question still weirds me out. Are you supposed to provide friends and social activities for your husband because he's incapable of arranging these things on his own? That just seems...odd.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Or he's prolly just a tad too shiftless to bother

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I got 12. I was a bad wife, though.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought it meant does he like the things you suggest when you suggest going out and doing things together. This is definitely a no for me as I like dancing to pop records and watching football. He, er, doesn't.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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