There has been a lot of change in what we see on TV as a housewife. Being a house wife has changed so much from the old popular 1988 show “Roseanne”. In Roseanne, she was a hard working mother who not only took care of her children, but has an everyday 9am to 5pm job as a factory worker. When the viewers would watch this show, they would see the struggles that Roseanne went through to keep her family happy and keep her sanity. Roseanne was always working hard and still had a good attitude about her life. Even when something wasn’t going right, she kept her cool and found away to overcome it. This is completely different from the housewives shown on TV today. For example, a popular show that viewers watch today is “Real Housewives of New Jersey”. These women in the show are housewives that stay at home to take care of their children and do not work, but it is easier for them to do it because they have very wealthy husbands that want them to stay home and don’t need them to work. Even though I do like this show, it in my eyes, doesn’t show the true struggles of a real housewife. This is because for these women, it is easy and if they didn’t have children, they would still be doing the same thing they do now. When people see their life throughout the show, you see the children and that they do take care of them, but the show is more focused on the drama and wealth of the mothers. So it makes me think, why is the show called REAL Housewives of New Jersey when they hardly focus on the housewife aspect of it?
Very good argument. But these women now that they are famous are also contributing by becoming authors, making paid public appearances and even having talk radio shows.
ReplyDeleteI too have seen several episodes of the " Real Housewives" and in all the shows from New York City, to Orange County, to Beverly Hills etc there is one common theme, wealthy, high fashion woman who do not work, with maids, nannys and personal assistants. While some of the housewives do work rarely woman with actual jobs are chosen to be on the show. The moms are "stay at home" mothers but their children spend most of the day with nannies or taking care of themselves. The children are spoiled and incredibly disrespectful to any authority figure. How is this lifestyle in anyway what any woman would desire?
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