I want a wife
How accurate was the “I want a wife” piece? The "I Want a Wife" piece which is written by Judy Brady is obviously a satirical piece of work that attempts to show gender roles and expectations for women within marriage. However, its solely catering to a feminist audience, so wont she just have a biased opinion? Brady’s entire piece is basically just criticizing men while empowering women in an attempt to lie about everything wife’s do. Yes, some of the things she says is true but if you combine everything she says and look at it logically it seems highly unlikely that a wife does all of what she says. Brady portrays the role of a wife as a gruesome task where they sacrifice their entire life to server under their tyrannical ogre of a husband. She provides unreasonable standards of what a wife does and makes it out to seem that every wife is perfect and hardworking while they slave away under their husbands just to be “replaced” if a “more suitable wife” appears. She says that women by doing everything like providing for you while you peruse higher academics, taking care of every single related to the children whether it be the transportation, the education, the cooking, every single aspect is done by the women. Not only that the all the man’s physical needs along with every single chore in the house, and then the wife will care for the husband when he’s sick, or when he’s unhappy. Then at the end of the day the wife will satisfy the husbands sexual needs. The piece is satire yes but the meaning behind it is still that women do everything in a relationship while men do practically nothing.
I agree with you. This could have been how it was back when she wrote the piece, but right now society has definitely changed a lot because in a lot of families the wife and husband both share numerous responsibilities with each other. In some families, both parents do the cooking together, buy the groceries together, plan out family activities together, and don’t have many specific tasks that the husband says the wife has to do.
ReplyDeleteI like how you prove the contradictions present in Brady's piece. It portrays multiple unreasonable standards and makes it seem like the husband does not appreciate/do anything in return.
ReplyDeleteI like how you broke down the piece and explained how it sets unrealistic views on husbands and the fallacies that are part of it.
ReplyDeleteI like how you analyzed some of her hyperboles and connected it to her audience
ReplyDeleteI agree on your stance that Brady's piece might not be entirely accurate especially in todays time where women have more rights than before in the 1970's. I also agree and find interesting that although she writes in a satirical fashion to mock husbands, she may still have a biased perspective.
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