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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?
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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.
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...swapping recipes.
Then they joined this board, guised as Durians...
Now, there's something that would make a fearsome jack o'lantern! [shudder]
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Wrong, Tsuwn, The screenplay "Stepford Wives" has an ignoble end for the men.
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?? must be thinking of the execrable Revenge of the Stepford Wives
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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!   
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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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)
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