Is it now common thought that completing basic household tasks makes a woman less empowered?

Here is a commercial that is supposedly very sexist.

Apparently it’s the “taking care of my home is a dream” line that has some so disgusted.

Give me a break. Haven’t you ever referred to something as a dream, as in a good experience, not as in a future aspiration?

Instead of bashing this commercial, one should be asking, “ok now where are the commercials of girls doing math problems and playing with model cars?”

But then again perhaps that would bring up other issues as we have a culture were some toys are only for girls, and some toys are only for boys. It’s kind of hard to have it both ways isn’t it?

To me the main issue seems to be extremes. On one hand there are extremists who think that a woman’s place is in the home- period! That’s her job, she should love it, and anyone who says otherwise is trying to distort the natural order of things.

Then there is the other extreme of NO, NO, NO. These women (and men I suppose) scoff at anything related to home making. They insult women who choose to stay at home with their kids. They imply you are an oppressed idiot if you enjoy cooking and cleaning.

I don’t understand the need to be so extreme. Why can’t there be a balance?

If a woman enjoys cooking and cleaning that doesn’t make her less of a woman, nor does it mean she is lazy and uneducated.

Likewise if a woman doesn’t like cleaning, doesn’t want kids, and loves her career it doesn’t mean that she is ruining the basic foundation of society.

To each his (and her) own.

We as women need to stop battling each other and come together. Stop making each other the enemy, and learn to accept that people have a right to choose whatever they feel is best for their life.

We’d get a lot further that way.

Now excuse me while I go respond to emails, join a conference call, start my monthly reports, go grocery shopping, clean the kitchen, and crochet.

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