Episode notes
When GamerDude was growing up, a "normal" relationship in society was a father who worked and a mother who stayed at home and cooked, cleaned, and took care of the kids. Dating back then - whether conciously or unconciously - was geared towards finding a mate to complete this "normal" relationship. GamerDude talks about how the attitudes of parents, and schools, helped cement this mentality of what "normal" was, and how this mind-set was reinforced by the movies and tv shows everyone watched. He talks about how Leave It To Beaver and Father Knows Best depicted the "typical" home, and how they showed the goal for a "good" relationship.
He also talks about classes in school that helped further confirm this. Boys took shop class - either wood or metal shop, so that they would learn marketable skills, and girls took home economics classes, where they ...
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