Breadwinner issues/Don't Women?
Breadwinner Issues
It really pisses me off when husbands tell their wives- oh, look who’s bringing home the money, who’s the sole breadwinner of the family?! You better be grateful and forever indebted to me because I slog to provide food on the table for you and the family. Does the woman have every right to scream back that she is bringing up THEIR child for fucking peanuts? Don’t you have to be eternally grateful to her as well for cleaning the diapers, washing the clothes and literally putting food in its edible form on the table?
In my opinion, mums deserve the most respect in the world. The horror of childbirth she had to endure is already big enough a sacrifice made, and putting her life and ambitions, hopes and dreams on hold just to feed and clothe a child is simply admirable. I’m not saying fathers don’t do a good job, they do, but at least they get credit and recognition and financial returns from what they do, and because they earn the money, they supposedly have this power over it (yeah I know children equals biggest reward u can ever receive and blah blah but that’s besides point). Technically if you earn the money you own it. However, when a father earns cash it should technically become the couple’s, because he has to fulfil the role of the father. The mum takes on the role of "nurturer" , minds the kid, and she gets all the shit.
If a women were paid the minimum going rate for all her labour as mother and housekeeper- child care, transportation, errands, cleaning laundry cooking-- her yearly salary would be over $35, 000, more than the average salary of male fulltime workers (Newman, 2002).
"But because societal and family power are a function of who brings home the cash, such work does not afford women the prestige it might if it were paid labour"
As long as men dominate the public sphere, the marketplace and the government, they will wield greater economic and political power within society and also be able to translate that power into authority at home.
Why are some women so afraid to leave their husbands even though they treat them badly? It’s because they are brainwashed into believing they cannot possibly stand on their own two feet and begin to make decisions and money for themselves. They become reliant and hopelessly dependant on their husband because they think they cannot do otherwise.
When people ask how many children im gonna have and when I say probably none, guys look genuinely confused and ask, but aren’t all women supposed to have children? Don’t all women like children anyway? Don’t they have this natural inborn instinct that makes them turn to mush and goo when they see cute little cuddly boogie babies? Don’t women naturally know how to cook and clean and change soiled diapers and wash the dirty laundry? Don't Women?
It really pisses me off when husbands tell their wives- oh, look who’s bringing home the money, who’s the sole breadwinner of the family?! You better be grateful and forever indebted to me because I slog to provide food on the table for you and the family. Does the woman have every right to scream back that she is bringing up THEIR child for fucking peanuts? Don’t you have to be eternally grateful to her as well for cleaning the diapers, washing the clothes and literally putting food in its edible form on the table?
In my opinion, mums deserve the most respect in the world. The horror of childbirth she had to endure is already big enough a sacrifice made, and putting her life and ambitions, hopes and dreams on hold just to feed and clothe a child is simply admirable. I’m not saying fathers don’t do a good job, they do, but at least they get credit and recognition and financial returns from what they do, and because they earn the money, they supposedly have this power over it (yeah I know children equals biggest reward u can ever receive and blah blah but that’s besides point). Technically if you earn the money you own it. However, when a father earns cash it should technically become the couple’s, because he has to fulfil the role of the father. The mum takes on the role of "nurturer" , minds the kid, and she gets all the shit.
If a women were paid the minimum going rate for all her labour as mother and housekeeper- child care, transportation, errands, cleaning laundry cooking-- her yearly salary would be over $35, 000, more than the average salary of male fulltime workers (Newman, 2002).
"But because societal and family power are a function of who brings home the cash, such work does not afford women the prestige it might if it were paid labour"
As long as men dominate the public sphere, the marketplace and the government, they will wield greater economic and political power within society and also be able to translate that power into authority at home.
Why are some women so afraid to leave their husbands even though they treat them badly? It’s because they are brainwashed into believing they cannot possibly stand on their own two feet and begin to make decisions and money for themselves. They become reliant and hopelessly dependant on their husband because they think they cannot do otherwise.
Men presume women are born with a broom with one hand, and a diaper in another, as well as a insatiable penchant for childbirth.
When people ask how many children im gonna have and when I say probably none, guys look genuinely confused and ask, but aren’t all women supposed to have children? Don’t all women like children anyway? Don’t they have this natural inborn instinct that makes them turn to mush and goo when they see cute little cuddly boogie babies? Don’t women naturally know how to cook and clean and change soiled diapers and wash the dirty laundry? Don't Women?
Don’t women my arse. Wake up and make your own damn coffee.
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