I don't know if you saw those chick flicks in the 90s and early 2000s. Always a generic housewife, tired of her children and partner. That wants to go on an adventure to "find herself" and all this retarded shit. That portrayal of the housewife is not only lazy and senseless but it has played fucking mind games on a whole generation of young impressionable girls that grew up watching that shit.
I don't think there is a single more important and significant profession than the housewife. They say it's a man's world and while that may be true they fail to realise that behind every man there was a mother that had to carry that little shit for 9 months. The way Hollywood portrayed the oldest and most noble profession of all, being a great mother saddens me to unbelievable depths. Instead we have a generation of girls that believe being sexualised is empowerment and that having a fucking meaningless and senseless job that pays an average wage is somehow more important than being a great mother.
I'm also saddened by the fact that feminism has turned women against men in recent times. Academics try to argue that women were repressed throughout history across multiple ancient civilisations using examples such as the denial of the vote as evidence. Ignoring the fact that numerous wars were fought in the name of women and that women have held monarchical titles in various parts of the world throughout history. To act as though the social code didn't restrict men and women (manifested in different ways) equally is malicious.
We are taught a simplified view of history, stripped of it's nuances. In ancient Greece for example, a vote was given to a family unit not to an individual. The man being the representative of the house would cast the vote as the man represented the household on the battlefield. You need to understand back in antiquity governments were essentially groups of strongmen going to war in order to protect their clan from invaders. These same men would subsequently govern and lead their societies.
Men and women were partners. Are partners. The battlefield was reserved for the man and the home was entrusted to the woman. Each had their role and duties to fulfil.
There are countless ancient stories that directly deal with love. Common themes in these stories relate to protecting women from external dangers that wish to threaten her, pursuing and overcoming obstacles and literally fighting fucking gods for love. A modern feminist may be offended at the notion that a woman needed to be protected by a man but in ancient times where rape, pillaging and war was the norm, the notion of requiring protection begins to make a little more sense. While a modern feminist may find these themes patronising we are able to reasonably argue that men in ancient times viewed women (or the social ideal was) as things that needed to be treasured and protected, rather than attacked and objectified as many modern academics have come to suggest.
Boats are named after women (weird start I know but bear with me). This is because sailors would spend extended periods of time at sea where they would form a deep emotional connection with their vessels and they would bestow feminine characteristics such as beauty and strength upon them, similiar to how they would describe a beloved woman. Note this is born out a man's admiration and love for women.
If you want to cherrypick information from any given point in history to illustrate a point you can do. But to act as if women and men loving and respecting one another to be a modern phenomena and a product of feminism, as if it hasn't been happening since literally the start of humankind is deceitful.
I'm not trying to suggest everything was perfect. Like us, they were only human. But it's also disingenuous to try and portray men thoughout history as tryannical and evil creatures that wished to repress and inflict harm upon women. I'm sure bad agents existed as it always does but to try and draw a picture of pain and suffering with a wide brush seems dismissive and retractive.
It is one of capitalism's greatest sins to turn women against men. What is so wrong with tending to the children and caring for the home? How does that make one a second class citizen?
We now have a generation of women that are firmly hung up on the notion that strong women do not need men. This is verifiably false. We need one another. I'd go as far as to argue we complete one another. Single parent households create dysfunctional children. There's multiple studies that illustrate the benefits of both parents being present in the same household. I suggest you do the research if you don't believe my claim. But it's paritally why deliquency rates in black communities are so high. Because of absent father figures. Also have you seen the sudden rise of incest porn? To act like you can simply re-marry and combine 2 families together without some fucking sick perversion happening is short-sighted.
Both parents working, leaving the child is akin to child abuse as children need constant care, love and attention in order to thrive, something they will be deprived of by putting them in a child care facility where they do the bare minimum. Those early formative years are critical and being unable to establish a firm bond with your child is going to be damaging whether you like to admit it or not. I don't believe women should be forced to take on the role of caregiver however it makes sense to have one parent outside working making a living to support the family while the other takes care of the children. It has been that way for tens of thousands of years for a reason and there are some arguements as to why this should be the woman since last time I checked men don't produce breast milk. But to convince a whole generation of parents that leaving their child during infancy to be healthy and perfectly normal is one of the most destructive things to happen to western civilisation.
I do not care what economists say. Labour markets like anything else in the economy are susceptible to supply and demand changes. If supply doubles as women enter the workforce in droves yet demand remains stagnant as overall population stays the same you are effectively halving the cost of the "worker". We've been convinced to dilute the labour market despite it being against our best interests have no confusion about this and this is a part of the reason why both parents working is a necessity rather than a choice for many.
Men and women need to work together. We need to throw away the silly notion that being a mother is repression, yet seeking validation through pointless sexual acts because you are technically free to do so is somehow liberation and not something oddly and uniquely sad.