High Heels and Homemaking: A Tongue in Cheek Commentary

Time was when women had one task and they did that task well: homemaking. From the time she could spell her own name, she was bred to doll herself up to get a good husband with a good job who would do the “heavy lifting” so she didn’t have to concern herself with it. This ideal husband would be gone from the joint domicile 60% of the time during the week so she also wouldn’t have to deal with having him lying around the house and harrumphing for attention. This 60% of the time was hers to do with as she pleased, or more accurately, for her to do with as was needed to maintain the joint domicile. Women were happy then, or at least most of them were, until a select few decided to pick up and broadcast “the plight of the housewife”. Men realized they were getting the shaft being the only ones going outside of their homes during the day so they latched onto the concept of women moving away from their expertise and into the uncharted waters of professional occupation. Little did either men or women realize at the time, but that was the beginning of the end for the family unit.

Since women have been working outside of the home, the divorce rate has risen precipitously, the number of blended families has increased fourfold, and the suicide rate in teenagers has skyrocketed. Coincidence? I think not. By transcending the boundaries of the home, with its positive reinforcement of family values, and going out into the great, wide world, women were exposed to… other men. It’s interesting that their husbands didn’t think of this when they were celebrating the equality of the “modern” female. By seeing other men outside of their homes and embracing their individual selves, women began to cheat on their spouses. This, of course, had been going on for many years by those same spouses, but while it was something frowned upon, women generally understood that men need more from a relationship than occasional sex. These women, once liberated from the confines of the home, began to explore their own sexual natures further, and hence the escalating divorce rate. While men can cheat with few ill emotional effects, women need to invest themselves in all of their relationships, so they would get divorced.

This, in turn, obviously adversely affects the children, who now have to deal with mom in one place, dad in another, and eventually the blended family of people who should never have to share that joint domicile. These fractures can be easily attributed to the women’s movement that pushed women out of their homes and into the workplace. Once high heels replaced slippers as the shoe of preference for females, all bets were off, and all hell broke loose. Now families eat out at fast food places more often, escalating the obesity rate in our country, children fight more with siblings as they try to obtain “absent” parental love, people have more random sexual partners, and women don’t know their own identities. They have no sense of self, and that spreads to everything they do, including their outside jobs, which is heavily ironic.

Time was when women had one task and they did that task well. With the mounting number of tasks placed on women these days, they cannot possibly fulfill all of them well, and they only have themselves to blame. Well, that and their stupid husbands who thought they had a smart idea.

Sam