Flashback Feminist Friday--Housewives
Pigeon-holing people into certain gender roles has been
detrimental, and I believe that there is a swing to the other direction, with
more trans and non-gender conforming individuals in the media, but we still
live in a rural community, and these “traditions” are hard to break.
We have reality-TV celebrities encouraging women to provide
in their homes a sanctuary for their husbands, where he does not have to cook,
clean, change diapers, or ask for sex.
Melissa Gorga, a Real Housewife of New Jersey, has written an advice
book, Love Italian Style. In it, she and
her husband, Joe Gorga, speak about their sex life, in which Joe says:
“Every girl wants to get her hair pulled once in
a while. If your wife says "no," turn her around, and rip her clothes
off. She wants to be dominated.”
REALLY?!! This is exactly the type of attitude that has
been called out in Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, and that we hear rapists say!
Melissa
also goes on to say
His style was to
make corrections and to teach me from the beginning days of our marriage
exactly how he envisioned our life together.
Why
are women submitting to changing themselves for their husbands? Women
I
encourage you to read the article on Jezebel, as there are many more disturbing
excepts, but this is the one that is most appalling to me, as an advocate.
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