I am a senior, and I live in an apartment downtown. I have two roommates. They are slobs. They never clean up after themselves. It's disgusting. One of them will spill food on the counter or floor, and just leave it there. UGH!! Once, I came home to my roommate putting her dinner on a plate, and she turns to me and said, "Oh, by the way, I was making dinner and went to sprinkle some salt, and the cap came off, so...if you see salt all over the place, that's why." That's just a minor example of how gross these girls are.
Then, the other day, I was thinking about how much it irks me that they literally never clean, and I had the MOST anti-feminist thought. I thought:
"When these girls get married, their husbands are not going to be pleased with their messiness."
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?? I couldn't, and I was the one who had the thought. I don't want to be a housewife when I am out of college, and I don't think it is solely the woman's job to clean, so I was shocked by myself. Then, I thought about it, and I kind of came up with a justification to my thought.
My train of thought was more along the lines of this: if you get married, you have a life partner, with whom you will be living under the same roof. So, no one is going to tolerate someone who never cleans up after him/herself (at least, I hope).
This modification makes more sense, but the fact that I automatically jumped into the patriarchal mindset was what was truly disturbing. And it kind of reinforced the Friedan article we read for today.
Feel free to judge me.
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