Those 50s housewives Peterson mentioned suffered from historic levels of depression. Perhaps having to do with the rise of the suburban lifestyle shift and the social alienation that brings. Their “comfortable secure lives” were necessarily attached to being married to a man with a career whose entire job consisted of day drinking and domestic violence. Divorce was out of the question for most women of the era. Even the term “domestic violence” wouldn’t come about until 1973 with the advent of the second-wave feminism and the Violence Against Women act wouldn’t be passed until 1994.
So, no, Dr. Peterson, women of the 50s didn’t have it so easy and it is incredibly reductive to read the work of a feminist scholar and activist who lived through that dire period and go on to spew your ignorance about a subject you know nothing about to an audience of impressionable young male followers.
CW: Domestic violence
This one got me heated. I’m mad.
Those 50s housewives Peterson mentioned suffered from historic levels of depression. Perhaps having to do with the rise of the suburban lifestyle shift and the social alienation that brings. Their “comfortable secure lives” were necessarily attached to being married to a man with a career whose entire job consisted of day drinking and domestic violence. Divorce was out of the question for most women of the era. Even the term “domestic violence” wouldn’t come about until 1973 with the advent of the second-wave feminism and the Violence Against Women act wouldn’t be passed until 1994.
So, no, Dr. Peterson, women of the 50s didn’t have it so easy and it is incredibly reductive to read the work of a feminist scholar and activist who lived through that dire period and go on to spew your ignorance about a subject you know nothing about to an audience of impressionable young male followers.