This, but unironically. Have any of you seen this trad wife shit? Spooky. No, thanks.
This, but unironically. Have any of you seen this trad wife shit? Spooky. No, thanks.
What conservatives don't understand is we know you're full of shit because you raised us. You idealize about a time that never was and we know it because we watched it destroy you. We were all raised in broken homes because you broke them. We watched the war on drugs destroy our neighborhoods because you were the ones who were xenophobic. We know this is all fantasy because we watched you fail and we don't want that for ourselves or anyone.
So please. Keep your fetishes in the bed room.
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The issue is not the ideal. The issue is the methods used to achieve those ideals. Made worse with their denial and repression of others ideals that don't align with their own.
No, the idea is inherently patriarchal and racist. The idea is fantasy because, no, people can't afford a home and three kids on a single person's income.
The people who made this work were privileged whites benefiting from generational wealth while the rest got clothes lined by the real fucking world.
4 kids...
What is this Patriarchy you speak of ? Is it a new flavour of ice-cream ?
Patriarchy is the systemic bias that men in charge make policies that put more men in charge simply because they are men.
If you've ever seen a Republican panel on women's health, you'd understand.
So it's a system that keeps women down right ?
Less about keeping women down, and more about elevating men above them purely because they are men.
That would be "pistachio"
Ah understood
The issue is also the disconnect from reality: achieving such an ideal would require policy that is diametrically opposite to what they're pushing for.
(apart from the inherent sexism and racism)
The issue is also the ideal, one man, one woman, 2.5 kids, a dog, an incredibly inefficient suburban lifestyle. The American dream was a racist, classist far right fantasy that can't exist at the same time as evel surface level equality under capitalism. Even if you randomize the races and genders involved, you're still effectively living your ideal by submitting to the ideal economic unit for advertisers, not yourself.
It's rotten from the core, and downright evil to want. No matter how you work towards this ideal you're going to trample the rights of others and objectively make the world worse with your existence.
I'm reading this and I'm not sure you clearly demonstrated your point. Not that you need to answer to me but I wouldn't mind hearing you out.
Fair, rephrased and reorganized:
The picture depicts the "American dream" or "nuclear family." This consists of a straight white Christian man with a moderately well paying job, a wife that's exclusively a home maker, two kids of different sex, and at least a dog and two cars in a house with a lawn surrounded by a white picket fence.
This ideal was developed by marketing companies and the US government for a few purposes:
One; it is an incredibly diverse marketing unit. You have an adult male to market towards, an adult female that needs new appliances and groceries, a little bit that will need sports gear and whatever throwaway that like baseball cards, a girl that needs clothes and makeup, a lawn that needs accessories, a stand alone house that needs constant maintenance, two different cars each requiring regular new purchases to maintain. If every family is like this, companies know exactly what to market to who and how to present their products. It also increases and diversifies consumer spending compared to any other household makeup allowable in 1950s America.
In otherwords it's the perfect setup for a capitalist consumer class that will never want better, never want equality, never strive for more. Especially as it's setup as the American dream, the end goal for every true American.
Two; its the opposite of the ussr atheistic communism. While it's a fairly prototypical patriarchal idealist fantasy, it's also well support by the Bible and all major denominations of Christianity, even the American ones. It avoids any controversial beliefs also supported by that faith, say polygamy or underage marriage or anything of that nature. It also acts to separate families into distinct units that can't easily rely on each other for support, promoting individualism versus more traditional multigenerational households common in the ussr.
Because it emphasizes family and individuality while uniquely emphasizing conformity to the norms the government and companies want it's the perfect counter to communist and socialist grass roots support; which traditionally start with comparisons to how (multigenerational) family households take care of each other to achieve a higher standard of living for everyone.
In very short this ideal itself is evil, it is not how most of any humans have lived before the 1950s pretty much anywhere, and was artificially created as an ideal to promote consumerism and fight communism. It's antithetical to the idea of community, commonality or equality.
Not only are the means previously used to reach this ideal evil (see us actions in the early 20th and 19th centuries in regards to colonialism) the concept itself is abhorrent to anyone that has experienced non consumer societies.
I'd be really interested to see who had a stronger sense of community in the 1950s -Americans who were largely unionized and members of religious communities or Soviets living in a nation that was undergoing purges and famine. Im not sure which one of those had a stronger sense of community but I see no reason to accept that the Soviet union had a greater sense of community just because of a bias against America.
Ahh, I get it now. Thank you!