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Once again, we get the old myth: women were forced into the role of domestic slave, there to enact his every whim. And "his every whim" more determined by today's fetishes than those of the time.
Pantyhose were invented in 1959. Up until then, all women wore garters or garterbelts. They hadn't become a fetish object yet. Does anyone with an agenda about the past ever do a survey or something of the men and women who actually lived in that time? Or is one screed by Betty Freidan (who no one in the feminist camp even listens to anymore) as far as research goes?
