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Which Housewife Decade Would You Choose?
At 33:04 · chapter starts 31:10
A TikTok showing housewives from different decades prompts the episode's most historically irreverent segment. Paige opens with an honest admission: if all her friends collectively decided to become tradwives, she would probably go along with it. But then the real question emerges — which decade? The options range from the 1950s full-dive domestic era to the rebellious 1980s, with a detour through Rosie the Riveter and the post-WWII pushback when men returned from war and tried to reclaim domestic authority. Paige lands firmly in the late '60s/early '70s: drugs are available but still from a doctor, so they feel sanctioned; gossip is rampant because everyone's on the phone all day. Hannah's grandmother is offered as evidence — a woman who would spend all day making the house perfect, then apply a full face of makeup the moment her husband called from an hour away, and who later became a glamorous secretary in Mugler sets. Hannah's own verdict: she would have been labeled hysterical and lobotomized, then wonders, genuinely, whether you can smoke weed on a lobotomy.
Hannah Berner's grandmother would spend all day managing the house, then put on a full face of makeup and lay out a perfect dinner exactly as her husband called to say he was an hour away. Later she got a secretary job where she wore Thierry Mugler sets and charmed everyone — whether or not she could type.
Paige tells Hannah that their friendship didn't just change her career — it changed her whole life. Before Hannah, Paige didn't know she wanted to say more things or be louder. She also ended most of her sentences as a young woman with 'and then I'll be married,' until she realized marriage might just cause more problems.
