Right. Basically, I'm the target audience here as a woman, but I'm a woman in 2009 reacting a story that's telling me how to get a happy life based on what people thought girls should want in the 1940s. The story's instructive, so I'm also reacting to it as sort of a lecture. Bob's the object in this story, so his behavior's not really under scrutiny. He's basically just the stand in for a desirable man (guys don't like girls who wear make-up, so Candy should look natural, for instance). He's mostly there just as an object to validate her correct behavior and criticize Betty's by falling in love with one and rejecting the other.
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