Home Economics Story, The (1951)

"Four years in the lives of four home economics students at Iowa State University."

This swell little educational video was once the subject of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode. I believe it is actually on one of the MST3K Shorts DVDs.

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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[kehya]

i really wish home economics majors were still like this. now they're called "Family and Consumer Science" and a lot of the fun was sucked out to make it less offensive to feminists. not that there's anything wrong with feminists, but now how am i going to learn about the physics of a mixer?

[lexidizzle]

"Meanwhile, all the lesbians at her high school went off and became doctors and lawyers, so that when Beth's husband beat her, she could be healed without being asked what she had done to 'provoke' him, and then could sue the bastard for divorce."

[harriman nelson]

Lesbians and gays.....another Curse of the modern Degenerate Age in which we live. Listen,Sugar,women and men are NOT equal and never have been,especially mentally. Mind your place and keep quiet. Hitler and the Nazis had the right idea on this subject.

[angel palm]

It's sad that as corny as this video is, it just goes to show that young women back then had more ambition than all the Kim Kardashian/youtube celebrity wannabees of today.

[ihatetaft]

MST3K!

[hwales1]

Where the hell did they get a baby for their "sorority house"?

[MegaAries1992]

There is something wrong with feminists, they're snooty, anti-penis, elitist bitches who think they are entitled to anything they desire just because they're female. They are not for equal rights among genders at all. They've already accomplished most of their goals over 40 years ago and are now as irrelevant as the Ku Klux Klan.

[emtpmpknhed]

Highly informative for that time period, I must say.

[ArtemRomanov]

This movie is 60 years old.

[nanlisa]

Even though I had home ec when I was in school back in the 70's, I chose not to be a wife and a mother. I was raised in a family of eight kids. Six brothers, one sister, and myself. Four of my brothers are mentally handicapped. (Unfortunately, one of them passed away back in July of 2000.) I don't have the time, money, or even the patience to devote to raising a child. My religious beliefs have a lot to do with it as well.

But I still had to learn how to cook.

[donkwich]

14:17 Look, look, look at my crotch

[littlesongbird1]

My mom couldn't believe that all I learned in home economics was literally how to bake cookies. She felt they should teach us sewing, child care , etc. even if it was boys and girls. It's no wonder so few people my age know how to sew or even cook decent food!