#pompade

Example 1 (Good Boy Archetype):

This one is going to be based on Ira Levin's original The Stepford Wives novel, where the plot is about normal women being replaced by near-perfect robotic replicas of themselves, created by their husbands to clean the house, cook for them, and basically be the perfect wife. The concept is very simple: in society, the wife is supposed to listen to her husband's needs. Now, who is the husband supposed to listen to? His employer. That means the Stepford man is robotically submissive to his employer - the perfect worker. He's everything a boss desires in his employee. What do bosses expect from their workers? 1) Punctuality 2) Reliability 3) Effective communication 4) No friction of interests Whatever the boss says is always right. When he speaks, you're quiet. When he decides, you obey. When he judges you, you never forget it and immediately reform. To most workers in our society, that would be a nightmare. But the Stepford man doesn't mind - in fact, he doesn't have a mind of his own. All he thinks about is his job and how good he looks for it. He'd quit hanging out with friends just to clean his house (or car) because the boss could visit at any time. He doesn't befriend co-workers except to slowly stepfordize them too. He wears classical clothing because it's timeless and never fails to make his boss's company look prestigious and respectable. Why else are most of us expected to wear classical clothing at a job interview? It's practically tailor-made for the Stepford ideal. He always keeps track of the state of his boss's company, and he may even donate to it to keep his boss satisfied. When he sleeps, he dreams about his job. Once he has a Stepford wife, he'd also think about his wife. Why? Not because he loves her - he cannot love her - but because she's useful for keeping the house clean and having children to create another generation of workers for his boss' company.