reconsti-tuting the fam
warning: contain a massive dose of sarcasm and mockery
around this time
"Dr." Popenoe (honorarily by Occidental) sees the returning of soldiers after armistice as an opportunity to (run his mouth and) bolster marriage, boost reproduction, and enforce strict gender norms (Stern, 189).
Be It Ever So Jumbled There’s No Place Like Home is a booklet distributed by the YMCA which outlines Popenoe's devious master plan for the returning soldiers, making them into genetically productive machines. At this point, considering Popenoe's ever-escalating influence through the AIFR, it seems like his master plan could actually work. Like a certain elected individual.
quick stats
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aifr
For the tl;dr peeps out there. Got u fam.
client base
how many?
how long?
white, middle-class migrants to South California.
14,000 consultations to 4,197 individual clients
15,000 one-hour consultations per year or about 350 per week.
all
stats
are extracted from
the
book
So this was basically when gender norms, misogyny, and gender gap came like a huge destructive hurricane sweeping away women's social standing and rights. It was all thanks to this randomly lucky plant breeder who got himself more public power than he could handle.
A direct quote from the book sums it all up:
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Even though this husband was generally disengaged from social life, except for his obsession with baseball, the wife was instructed to “take him ‘as is’—he’s an extravert [or extrovert?] and she can’t change that.” In order to save the marriage, she was advised to “act as if she enjoyed the game” of baseball and take responsibility for enriching “their common life with other activities that he finds enjoyable and profitable."
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