It is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Applebee's is the only place I've ever been to which has been aggressively mediocre. Usually mediocrity implies some degree of indifference; it's not the kind of adjective that can take an intensifier. But no. Applebee's is aggressively mediocre.