Oh, that won't effect the romance if you skip it then? I just have a bad habit of needing to exhaust every bit of character dialogue I can in games.
Well I loaded a save after the Temple and before that conversation and just ran through the games' ending (for science) and it all seemed to work.
For example, the Second World War had ended. Woman took over the mens jobs and weren't going to go back to being housewives and living of the men.
After the war gender roles snapped back pretty quickly - at least in some places it was worse, I suspect that might be generally true. Things had been shaken up and that probably contributed to what was to come though.
That's a simplistic version of what happened and there are fuller accounts you can read but yeah the whole attitude towards culture in the 50's was pretty bad on the part of our political elite (is it any better?).
Those were pretty bad times, so probably.