American Thinker:
By Andrea Widburg
On Mother’s Day, the New York Post ran an article bearing the title, “Millennial men want 1950s housewives after they have kids.” The article’s text was more nuanced and more predictable: it reviewed a book revealing that Millennial men pay lip service to their wives’ careers — and like the money their wives bring home — but also want to have their wives function as full-time mothers and homemakers.
In 1988, Arlie Hochschild published a groundbreaking book, The Second Shift, about her investigation into dual-career households. She interviewed a range of couples, some who held traditional beliefs about male and female roles within a marriage and some who saw both partners espousing the modern view that said husband and wife both work and share household responsibilities.
Hochschild’s research revealed that the most progressive husbands, the ones claiming complete equality in the marriage, were creating an elaborate fiction. They often described themselves as responsible for “outside” work, implying that it was the same as “inside” work. Their “equal” role in the house amounted to mowing the lawn or taking out the garbage once a week or picking up milk on the way home from work. Meanwhile, their wives, who also held paying jobs, were handling shopping, cooking, cleaning, childcare, and everything else. Ultimately, the wives put in the equivalent of an extra month of work per year.
Ironically, the husbands who were most helpful around the house were the old-fashioned men who felt they’d failed when their wives had to work outside the home. Because they placed the most value on the mother/homemaker role, they recognized their wives’ sacrifice in leaving the home for the workplace. The more “modern men,” with their views of equality, saw traditional women’s work as valueless and were unwilling to sully their hands with it or to appreciate the wives for handling those tasks. MORE
I guess I’m old. I had to google Millennial to discover the age group. So my question is, isn’t this what the same aged group women wanted? I see them at my gym with their pajama wearing unshaven man slaves and they ain’t happy. Granted, weak men that allow themselves to sink this low. In the long run, maybe they didn’t have very good parental influence. Who knows. I have no time for pussies.
Millennial men want to marry women whose parents are rich &pay for everything.
Happening now across the street from me.
My friend Franklin always maintained that he’d be perfectly happy to earn all the money needed for household and family if he could only find a wife who was a mute toothless dwarf whose daddy owned a liquor store.
Uncle Al .
To funny, but Franklin forgot about the flat head for a place to set your beer.
Millennial men want their wives to be both Ward and June Cleaver an hard on the Beaver!
In other words, millennial “men” are actually still boys who want the freedom afforded by work that takes them out of the house (and to other places) where they can still view themselves as autonomous and not, necessarily, part of a married team or directly responsible for the fruit of their loins. If this study is true, they see their wives’ work as valueless because they weren’t down for the whole marriage gig in the first place. In the 1980’s they were called Peter Pan.
It is a slope. Downward. And not slippery, at all.
If men can have vaginas, pretty soon feminism won’t seem bat shit insane.
Show me a man with a vagina or thinks he has a vagina and I’ll show you a freak.
Ward I think you were a bit hard on the Beaver last night.
It takes time for a boy to become a man, a girl to become a woman…. and realize the difference between a wife as a princess who is a damsel in distress always in need of saving versus a Queen always ready to fight by her man’s side and protect what they’ve created together. Mutual respect.
This past weekend (Mothers Day no less) hubby and I went to the range with our 3 daughters for some quality family time. They will not be damsels in distress, and I pray to God they expect their men to be Kings.
I always wished my father was like Ward or Robert Young of Father’s Know Best. I realized that those 2 guys were clean cut, manicured, not a hair out of place–perfect. My father came home with grease, grim, and sweat. One was a fantasy and the other was for real.
As for my mother, she stayed home, took care of six kids, there was no time to put on heels and look like she just got home from the beauty salon. There was no salon time, dad was thankful she was there to take care of it all. I’m not so sure those programs did any good for kids like me. I do remember wanting my mother to be on Queen For a Day!