My class read an article called "Why I Want A Wife" by Judy Brady. It discussed all the reasons as to why that is so. She uses satire to get her point across. She wants a wife not for love but for someone to dedicate their whole life to pleasing their partner. This style of writing is very effective because it gets the point of the article across by exaggerating the roles of wives in a household which are true to an extent.
According to the article a wife's duties are to:
- Support their partner and children while they go to school to continue their education
- To keep track and organize everyone's appointments
- Care for the children and arrange for others to care for them when the wife is working
- Tend to their partners physical needs
- Clean and cook for the partner
- Listen to their partner's complains
- Take care of their partner's social lives
- Tend to the needs of guests while not bothering them
- Is sensitive to their partner's sexual needs but only to satisfy their partner not themselves
- Understands if their partner decides to replace them with another wife
She uses these examples to create a "perfect wife" that will everything asked of them. It is a ridiculous concept but some people believe this to be true. She explains all the duties of a wife in detail, while the duty of the partner is to focus on themselves and complain about how hard their life is while the wife's duty is to listen and sympathize with them. According to this article a wife's job is to make the husband and children happy. She describes the role of a wife as a job more than a partnership between a couple. She is describing someone that doesn't exist to prove that wives are human too, they are not superhuman beings that can do everything perfectly. They need help from their partner, it is a team effort and should take care of each other.
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