The critics claim the lifestyle wasn't real because TV isn't real life, but then they repeat the lie (which is constantly reinforced by TV shows) that most housewives in the 50's were treated like cattle.
They're falsely claiming that part of this is about glorifying the worst negative Hollywood tropes about the 50's housewife. It has nothing to do with that, but they need to pretend it does so they can call it dangerous.
On some level, I feel like they know the actual horrors of the housewife were that housewives with nothing to do once appliances made their work quick - became monsters.
They're always trying to create a narrative around this point.
I think this might be backwards, women became such monsters as they got older and had nothing to do, they were desperate to be able to get away from them.
I know that's the opposite of the feminist narrative, but I've nearly every feminist narrative is grounded in telling the opposite of what actually happened.
The critics claim the lifestyle wasn't real because TV isn't real life, but then they repeat the lie (which is constantly reinforced by TV shows) that most housewives in the 50's were treated like cattle.
They're falsely claiming that part of this is about glorifying the worst negative Hollywood tropes about the 50's housewife. It has nothing to do with that, but they need to pretend it does so they can call it dangerous.
On some level, I feel like they know the actual horrors of the housewife were that housewives with nothing to do once appliances made their work quick - became monsters.
They're always trying to create a narrative around this point.
It doesn't help that no fault divorce put the family courts at their beck and call.
I think this might be backwards, women became such monsters as they got older and had nothing to do, they were desperate to be able to get away from them.
I know that's the opposite of the feminist narrative, but I've nearly every feminist narrative is grounded in telling the opposite of what actually happened.