Someecards dug up the Marital Rating Scale by George W. Crane, Ph.D., and M.D., of Northwestern University, from 1939, which gets passed around on the internet from time to time.. It's like an extreme version of a regular online quiz — it's literally a rating scale for your partner.
On the rating scale, men can earn points for good behavior — such as being polite and mannerly even when alone with their wife, helping out with dishes and the kids and being a good conversationalist. And they get bonus points for some categories, like remembering birthdays and having a date night once a week (he gets five points per date).
Men lose points for bringing random people to the dinner table without telling their wives, comparing her to other women, burping without apologizing, leaving drawers open, reading the newspaper at the table, flirting with other women while he's with his wife (but not when he's not with her?), rehashing his years as a single guy and snoring, among other things.
And then there's the wives' rating scale, in which men can tally up points to see whether their wives are "prize worthy" or not. It's probably one of the more backward things you'll ever read, and here are some of the things that got this author a low score: Slow in coming to bed, wearing soiled or ragged dresses and aprons (or, sweatpants with holes), failing to sew buttons on or darn socks regularly, wearing red nail polish, being late from time to time, having crooked seams in their tights, putting their cold feet on their husband at night to warm them.
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