@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.

@cobweb @havoc thank you, this is exactly what my post is about

Some people seem to believe that “well, I didn’t experience it, so it must not be true!!”

@yassie_j @cobweb If it's a choice and people who are not rich are doing it...

What's stopping anyone else?

@Len0w0ThinkBad @yassie_j @cobweb

That's the thing I think would save Capitalism, actually. Every full-time job should be able to function as the head of a traditional household.

I think the animosity and political division we have today is because workers do not have a large enough slice of the pie.

Minimum wage workers are the lowest paid 1% of workers. I guess it only works for the 99% of the rest of workers.

@cobweb @Len0w0ThinkBad @yassie_j
Something like 55% of Americans own their homes. It seems to be working for quite a number of people?

I'd rather get that percentage even higher, but... is the system all bad as is? It seems to be working for a lot of people.

@havoc @cobweb @Len0w0ThinkBad you know that life expectancy in the US has dropped, right? Like, in the last few years? Children are getting shorter (due to malnutrition), there are more people who are in precarious employment, and the ratio between earnings and house prices is multiple times worse than it was even a decade ago.

If a country where children are poorly fed, people are dying more often, and the national minimum wage hasn’t changed since the release of GTA V is “working for a lot of people” then you must be the most un-self-aware person in the USA.

@yassie_j @Len0w0ThinkBad @cobweb I do not think anybody in America actually cares what happens to anybody else; it explains our gun laws, car sizes, everything - as long as people can afford to buy a house and go on vacations, nobody cares.

I mean, the prison industrial complex? We just collectively look at that shit and shrug. Pretty horrifying.