This insanity is based on a key falsehood:
“Homemaking is a non-skilled job, not a career opportunity and any idiot could do it.”
I reared and supported 3 children alone because my ex-husband was neither able nor willing to provide for us. The few years I was a full-time homemaker were the best of my life and I never belittled him to my friends. When they complained about their husbands, they always acknowledged that my husband was not like that and never expected me to belittle him.
Homemaking and child-rearing was the most important, challenging and rewarding job I ever had. It just didn’t generate cash flow for the government to tax.
Providing for a family requires very different skills and a very different mindset. I know because I’ve done that too. Trust me, my homemaking went down the toilet when I had to be a full-time provider.
It takes a very strong and narrow focus to maintain a well-paying career whether you’re a plumber, mechanic, doctor, computer programmer or executive.
How many of the women who belittle their husbands could do their husbands’ jobs? Why do they expect their husbands to be able to do theirs?
Because they think their job is a job for idiots and they are desperate to look down on someone else. It actually starts with women’s contempt for themselves.
The whole feminist movement is predicated on the principle that homemaking is an inferior position. That great lie that has nearly destroyed our culture.
If homemaking were so inferior, trust me, the government would not want that job, and the lust for power starts with the lust to control children and their upbringing.
My deepest sympathies for the useful idiots who betray their husbands, their children and themselves.
“Homemaking is a non-skilled job, not a career opportunity and any idiot could do it.”But actually that is true, from a certain perspective. After all - unless they marry a man who is super competent in the kitchen and with the vacuum cleaner, etc - women set their own standards of what homemaking is.
Since homemaking is whatever mama does, and any idiot can shoot a hole in the barn and draw a bull’s eye wherever the bullet hit, from that POV any idiot can be a perfect homemaker.
My father-in-law told the story of the mining camp which did not have a cook who wanted the job. So by common consent, whoever complained about the food automatically became the new cook. One day the acting cook got sick to death of the job, and larded the food with a lot of extra salt. When the group sat down to dinner, the first one to take a bite of it said, “This food is too salty . . . and that’s just the way I like it!"