This is something I often see. Work is a good thing, don't get me wrong, but it can trample intangible good if we don't pay attention.
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I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionnaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it? You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.
- Tasha Tudor
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I wish I had understood this when I was growing up
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'What have you been doing lately?'
'I? Oh, minding the house—pouring out syrup—pretending to be amiable and contented—learning to have a bad opinion of everybody.'
George Eliot, from Middlemarch
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[The] Submission and simplicity [of Slow Living and the #TradWife movements] can be most attractive during times of duress. People have historically glommed on to charismatic religions when it feels like the world is changing in ways that make it feel unfamiliar—and they crave something, anything, steady. It makes sense, too, that some of the women who become followers of religious sects that preach the gospel of biblical womanhood may be escaping some form of personal or familial trauma. To give up control can feel very much like achieving it.
But there are so many ways to find the sort of steadiness that these accounts, biblical or otherwise, seem to offer. If nonbelievers are attracted to them because they seem to promise a life where you get to stop scrambling to do it all, where there’s actually time to do things like bake a cake, or make clothing you like, or just be with your children without an agenda—that doesn’t mean you should become a #tradwife. It just means that we’ve normalized the substitution of women’s labor for a functioning social safety net, and still organize society as if every family has an adult who doesn’t work outside the home, when that’s not the reality for 80 percent of American families.
That also doesn’t mean feminism has failed us. It means that legislatures largely controlled and influenced by men—many of whom believe in some version of biblical womanhood—have worked really hard to make a life of submission this attractive, and a life of agency this hard. They’ve rolled back reproductive rights, of course, but they’ve also stood in the way of the sort of childcare reform that would make parenting easier—not just for working moms, but for all parents. They’ve busted unions and suppressed the sort of labor protections that would put boundaries on the workday. They’ve ensured we’re the only developed country in the world without mandatory paid family leave. And it’s all very purposeful, if rarely articulated.
From 'My So-Called #TradWife Life: ELLE asked me to live like a “stay-at-home girlfriend” for a week. It didn’t go well', published 2023; Anne Helen (My Ko-Fi Here)
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"Shiny new things but they're all for show"
HOMEMAKER, I Would Leave Me If I Could, Halsey
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Audrey Hepburn quotes to live by 🎀
"For me, the only things of interest are those linked to the heart."
"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
"I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls."
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We were made for wholesomeness. Conversations that are rich with truth and hope and void of filth and slander. Stories that enrich our imaginations. Food and drink that nourishes. Music that compels us with beauty, rather than seducing us with vice. We were made for Heaven.
- Anneliese (@ feminine_not_feminist on IG)
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“When you talk, do you actually hear the shite that’s coming out of your mouth?” he asks.
“Do you know,” Sherlock says, “Mycroft says the same thing.”
John and Sherlock (chp. 1)
Homemaking by rageprufrock (AO3)
Sherlock (TV) – Teen
#Domestic #General #PTSD
The original plan for returning to England involved fucking around being shellshocked and suffering mandatory post-combat counseling and physical therapy to dissect the shattered mosaic of his feelings. That’s not quite how it goes.
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