Experts told [women] how to catch a man and keep him, how to breastfeed children and handle their toilet training, how to cope with sibling rivalry and adolescent rebellion; how to buy a dishwasher, bake bread, cook gourmet snails, and build a swimming pool with their own hands; how to dress, look, and act more feminine and make marriage more exciting; how to keep their husbands from dying young and their sons from growing into delinquents. they were taught to pity the neurotic, unfeminine, unhappy women who wanted to be poets or physicists or presidents. what is the effect of friedan's comma usage in this excerpt? it shows the building importance of each item in friedan's list of ideal female traits. 0 it separates items in a long list of expectations without slowing the pace of the paragraph. it creates abrupt pauses that allow the reader time to appreciate the absurdity of each additional skill.