Can any one tell me anything about the word "Stepford".
It is used in the following sentence:
"There's a meanness and cynicism rampant, and fresh air is needed. Besides, your job is just as much at risk if you join the ranks of the Stepford librarians by remaining silent."
I believe it might have something to do with a movie called The Stepford Wives. But what does it mean exactly?

the movie in turn stems from a satirical sf novel wherein the Stepford (CN) Wives are computerized android duplicates. the finale shows the robot wives drifting like the living dead around a vast supermarket and swapping recipes.

...swapping recipes.
Then they joined this board, guised as Durians...
Now, there's something that would make a fearsome jack o'lantern! [shudder]

Wrong, Tsuwn, The screenplay "Stepford Wives" has an ignoble end for the men.

?? must be thinking of the execrable Revenge of the Stepford Wives

Hmmm. Women. Computers. Food. That sounds familiar ... lemmee think. Ah, yes! Well, helloooooo Helen! Now I understand so many things. We have a Stepford Wife in our midst! Ooooo, goody! I just luuuurve mysteries being cleared up!

Hi Pieman:

Can't help you with the meaning of Stepford, but I can provide some brief quotes about the film, courtesy of Halliwell:

"It was hard to tell Katharine Ross playing a robot from Katharine Ross playing a normal housewife." (Les Keyser, Hollywood in the seventies)

"The first women's lib gothic -- hardly the landmark the world had been waiting for." (the late Pauline Kael, New Yorker)