What are positive and negative qualities in a "Stepford" wife?

Question

What are positive and negative qualities in a "Stepford" wife?

Answer 1

Positive:  Attractive, keep their appearances up, keep a well-run home, they are there for their children and husband

Negative:  they don't have an original thought in their head, they can only act and respond the way they have been programed, no surprises, very uncreative

And these are only the tip of the iceberg!

Answer 2

Positive: happy to look after the home, care for their children and their husband, put their family before themselves, feminine and attractive in appearance, good social skills and enjoy spending time with other wives, faithful, obedient, always smiling, nurturing and helpful.

Negative: excessively dependent, blindly obedient to their husband, haven't developed their individual personalities, incapable of standing up for themselves or having a debate.

(I'm not sure whether you mean the qualities of the original Stepford wives in the film, or real life women who call themselves Stepford wives. I've described the robotic wives from the film, but real life traditional women have varied personalites and they can of course still be intelligent and free thinking.)

Answer 3

positive....they are hot

Negative....they don't work, they are lazy and they rarely put out for their husbands

Answer 4

Negative ????

The periodic Stepford wife behavior is what motivates guys to tolerate the other c**p.

I guess the only negative might be on the level of " One loses appreciation of a sunny day if it never rains."

Answer 5

Positive: Lack of facial expressions - this prevents wrinkles.

Negative: Lives so boring it's mind-numbing

Answer 6

Negative - In the book the real wives are KILLED and replaced by look-alike robots.  There is nothing positive about killing your human wife and replacing her with a robot.  It is murder.

Answer 7

No affect for negative.  You don't know if she is really happy.  

Negative is they don't have any original thoughts and don't know the meaning of spontaneity.  Kind of like some of the posters.

Answer 8

The positives: nurturing, forgiving, generous of spirit, values self-sacrifice, respectful of and loyal to her husband in and out of the home.

The negatives -- aside from those traits that differ from individual to individual -- are an excess of positives. A 'robotic' Stepford wife would be blind to or in deep denial of serious flaws in her husband and home life that could threaten her emotional or physical well-being.

In short: easier to abuse and to persuade that she *isn't* being abused.

My own wife may be very submissive, but she has her limits, and if I push too far beyond them I will find dragons with suitcases and legal briefs.

Answer 9

Is there a positive? Stepford wives are stupid bimbos with no original thoughts. They just make babies and cook food for their family. I have no idea why anyone would want to associate with one.

The Stepford Wife story is about evil little men killing their successful wives and replacing them with emotionless robots. Anyone who happily refers to themself as a Stepford Wife is a moron who has no idea of what it means.

Answer 10

Positive: They are robots.

Negative: They are robots.

I find it really funny when women call themselves "Stepford Wives." I guess they don't know the story. It is a story about men who kill their wives and replace them with vapid robots.