F* Word Housewives

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it."

- George Bernard Shaw-

I'm very disappointed and I guess well... pretty shocked. I guess I shouldn't be shocked, but I am. Today I was trying to look up pictures for my blog. I googled the words house wifes (I don't know why I did it like that, lack of sleep I suppose) and what to my wandering eyes should appear was many women without clothes on and tiny underwear. I thought maybe it would be different if I googled housewives, it was not different. I didn't understand how googling such a pure word could bring up such pornographic pictures. In my state of shock I remembered Chuck Klosterman's book SEX, DRUGS, AND COCOA PUFFS* In his book their is a chapter titled, "Porn". The very first line in the chapter is exactly what went through my head during my state of shock, "When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?" When did that happen? I know that my mom wasn't a housewife so maybe my idea's of housewives are a little off, but my friend's mothers were housewives and definitely not scantily clad women. They were more the let's have hot chocolate and play board games type of moms.
Klosterman had a google search as well in his book that was slightly different than mine. In his search he found this, "There are 6,250 sites on the Internet that prominently include the phrase 'naked housewives'. There are also 7,110 that include the phrase 'nude housewives,' which I suppose is technically classier. We have 586 that promote 'housewife whores,' while a solid 2,600 offer a more generic alternative ('housewife sluts'). I could only find 51 that contain the phrase 'my wife is a whore,'". Seriously what happened? Are "normal" housewives the latest mythological creature. You can find them in the toy section next to unicorns and ligers.
I guess maybe it would make sense to find these pornographic housewives in the toy isle, because they there purely to be looked at, bought, played with and then discarded.
If you're not a pornographic housewife you might be a Meth addicted housewife. Utah statistics show that Meth is the most abused drug by women between the ages of 18-35. The average age for women to get married in Utah is 21. There is a culture in Utah that makes women feel that they have to be perfect in every aspect of their life. This is very exhausting and I believe leads to a lot of "perfect" moms to be Meth addicts.
So if you're not a porn crazed housewife and if you're not a housewife that is stirring drugs on your stove then what kind of housewife are you? Oh...you're the housewife that doesn't contribute to the economy, so you're the lazy housewife. This is another way that men and FCP's have been able to put women against women. The feminist movement was about change, it was about equality and it was about the freedom to choose. Now women did not have to stay at home if they did not want to they had the choice to have a job outside of the home. But it's a choice that every woman is free to make for herself. Now their is such a negative connotation in the word housewife, probably equal to the negative connotation of the word feminism. In these negative connotations, housewives would be the radical right wing ideologists and feminists are the radical left wing ideologists. Where the base for feminism and choice is respect for that choice is probably right in the middle of that. If feminists and housewives (that are apparently not feminists) could find a way to meet in the middle the world would be a different place. But until the FCP's stop whispering in feminist's ears that women who aren't "contributing to the economy" are not feminists, and until the FCP's stop being FCP's this can never happen. And the word housewife will remain tainted. And it really won't happen with shows like, Desperate Housewives.