Everything about this article makes me frustrated. This is
why those jokes “get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich woman” are an
issue. Women really believe that’s the heterosexual relationships are suppose
to work. At one point the author of this blog says, “maybe I needed to show him
I could cook to prove that I am wife material.” What. I. What? Why? A part of me is frustrated and the
other part of me feels sorry for her.
She is going into a relationship were the expectations are already set:
she cooks and does whatever “wifey” things she needs to do and he gets to do
whatever he wants to do. Why limit yourself like that? Does anyone else have any thought on the
article?
This is the most surprising thing I have heard in awhile! The part that said: "Three sandwiches a week, times four weeks a month, times 12 months a year, meant I wouldn’t be done until I was deep into my 30s," she writes. "How would I finish 300 sandwiches in time for us to get engaged, married and have babies before I exited my childbearing years?" was the worst for me.. This poor woman wants a marriage and kids and yet she thinks this guy that is making her make 300 sandwiches is the one she wants to do that with?? So sad..
ReplyDeleteI just cannot believe that she is 100% ok with this idea that she has to live up to her boyfriend's expectation of what a wife does. There's nothing wrong with that fact that she likes to cook for him, but that she proudly and willingly admits that it is up to her to be 'wife material' in order to satisfy him is beyond ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteJust the idea that someone would feel the need to "earn" a marriage through some physical act is absolutely ridiculous, but the fact that her partner is more than willing to go along with it is absolutely revolting, at least to me.
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