Flashback Feminist Friday--Housewives
Today’s post is exactly the reason I feel that we need to continue to be aware of gender roles in marketing, education, and the media. 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?!! T...