Commentary
The English TV personality Susanna Reid once said, “Women telling men to step out of roles so they can step into them isn’t going to endear people to feminism,” nor “is telling women they are betraying feminism by enjoying the pleasures of being a traditional housewife.”
Wise words. Sadly, in these hyper-modern, ridiculously polarizing times, where the ideas of oppression and equality have been distorted and weaponized, very few women are willing to heed them. All is not lost, however; a few brave females are taking to social media to defend the lost art of being a homemaker.
To understand why they must defend being a housewife, one must first understand why being a housewife has been demonized, and where the demonization stems from….