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I recently came upon one of those quizzes that sometime grace ladies\u2019 magazines, this one from 1963<\/a>. I include it here because, to be honest, it made me think of Debi.<\/p>\n

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Note first of all the entire premise of the quiz: Does your guy treat you wrong? Have you ever wondered if it\u2019s your fault? As regular readers will know, this exact line of reasoning is shot through Debi Pearl\u2019s Created To Be His Help Meet<\/em><\/a>. Next note the scoring. This, for instance\u2014\u201che\u2019ll never treat you wrong, because you love and trust him.\u201d In her book, Debi suggests over and over again that if you just respect and obey your husband no matter what, he\u2019ll become a good husband. And then note this\u2014\u201cthe way you distrust him would make any boy behave like a heel!\u201d Similarly, Debi too suggests that husbands\u2019 faults are the result of their wives\u2019 failing to respect and obey them.<\/p>\n

The problems with this thinking shouldn\u2019t be hard to see. A woman\u2019s love and trust does not guarantee that a man will treat her well, and blaming a woman for her boyfriend\u2019s maltreatment is is truly toxic. I found this quiz an interesting illustration of the way some of Debi\u2019s ideas can be found in mainstream pop culture\u2014or at least, in mainstream pop culture in 1963, though I rather fear that this sort of logic remains more pervasive today than I would like.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"