BITCHfest: Ten Years Of Cultural Criticism From The Pages Of Bitch Magazine - Plot & Excerpts
Since the concept of an “angel in the house” took hold in Victorian times, Western culture has elevated the image of woman as domestic goddess while consistently undervaluing, if not just plain denigrating, the actual content of domestic work—a contradiction that has often made, in the modern age, for major antagonism between the so-called female realm and the actual living, breathing women who occupy it. Okay, so you probably wouldn’t know that from watching an average set of television commercials on any given network in any given prime-time slot. Check out this woman who’s cheerfully scrubbing out the toilet while her children and golden retriever look on. Man, she looks happy. Here’s another woman practically speaking in tongues because she’s so thrilled that her dishwashing detergent doesn’t leave spots on the glassware. Like Vanna White on a letter-turning bender, she runs her fingers ecstatically down the side of a glass in close-up. And sweet fancy Moses, here’s a woman who is apparently so taken by the new Swiffer duster that she’s dancing, dancing in her Mom Jeans, around a home that’s not even hers.
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