May 7th, 2008For the love of…
As long as there are products like The Mom’s Ultimate Family Organizer, the harder it will be to force equality among most parenting relationships about whose responsibility it is to maintain and keep up a family (here’s a hint: it’s not just Mom). It will be harder for women who choose to work outside the home, it will be harder for men who choose to stay at home and babywrangle, it will be harder for everyone.
Can we quit with the gender stereotyping? Why can’t a family have their own organizer? Why can’t this be a shared or distributed responsibility? Why are people buying this crap?
May 7th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
People buy this crap because there is a whole segment of women - you can see them in the comments there - who think that managing the house is their job, or at least they’re the supervisors of the household and everyone else, including the husband, is a minor underling. This is even if they work 60 hours a week outside the home. It scares and saddens me, honestly.