It mildly terrifies me that a lot of things we think are natural are just things that were invented by American advertising agencies in the 40s and 50s
The nuclear family, diamond engagement rings, owning a motor car, etc are all works of fiction that we have subsumed into being part of our culture, instead of it being astroturfed by a bunch of skilled marketers
@yassie_j My wife's a home maker right now. I will tell her she's fiction.
Okay, I told her she's fiction; this was her reply:
"That's erasure of me and my choices as a woman; who would say that?"
Which I think is hilarious.
@yassie_j I mean you stated it:
"Even the idea of a woman being a homemaker while her husband goes out to work is, in itself, a fiction. "
So I wanted to tell my wife she was fictional because I thought it would be a gas. Her response was... cutting, to put it mildly.
@cobweb Oh no, I get it, I just think a lot of that shit rocks.
The nuclear family where you can all afford to live on one salary? That kicks ass. The car? Freedom to go anywhere? That's an easy sell, it wasn't dastardly marketers.
And the whole point about home making wasn't very solid at all - lots of people choose it because it's fucking great.
@yassie_j @cobweb I mean, you're the one making the point that people are claiming it doesn't exist.
Multiple people say they're doing it just fine, and that it's a choice.
I guess in a deeper way none of this matters, it's just what we're talking about online. I don't see a deeper meaning to any of it; I had no broader point.
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