08-10-2004, 06:42 AM
Well you know, there is a Stepford Husbands and Stepford Children made-for-tv movie following the original. 
But you have to remember the book was written a long time ago, when feminism was very very high, and an idea like that was plausible and horrifying.
Now, we've been raised to want personality so that's what we'd be after. But those men in Stepford were all old and couldn't get anything else, so they took robot versions of their otherwise over-shadowing-them wives.
But you have to remember the book was written a long time ago, when feminism was very very high, and an idea like that was plausible and horrifying.
Now, we've been raised to want personality so that's what we'd be after. But those men in Stepford were all old and couldn't get anything else, so they took robot versions of their otherwise over-shadowing-them wives.