So, does the contemporary home maker have a genuine interest in politics or does she just go along with her hubby’s opinion? Do married American women care about what’s going on in the world as much as their counterparts? Maybe it’s just my observation, but whenever I am in a company of other couples, men seem to be a lot more passionate and opinionated about the politics than the women. Why is that? Is it because we don’t care for discussing the subject or we trust our partner to make the right decision without us being involved, or possibly we’re too busy being submerged in our own family world of cooking, cleaning and taking care of kids or maybe we just plain don’t care? In our family, my husband is a better politician than me. Thanks to him though I do seem to keep up with the major headlines by catching a glimpse of the national Fox News channel in the morning. How ironic, back when I was single, I seemed to have a higher interest for politics, bbc.com was actually one of my bookmarks and I checked it almost daily. Now I believe I can rely on my husband to make the right decision when it comes to the elections, but I am genuinely curious about them as well. I like to check out Washington Post online, it’s pretty decent when it comes to news coverage.
on Mar 25th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Guten Tag! Malikka Congrats on your marriage and your newborn baby. You are /were a good catch!! And of course yes homemakers do have an interest in politics or perhaps it s the lack of interest by one of the most important demographics of contemporary society but due to the social engineering of our collective community and the supposedly innate roles that we are to play have contributed to a homemakers (man or woman) lack of interest. Most would rather just watch Family Guy or King of Queens to get their ideas as to what the politically correct norms are. Laziness? Lol well ok the BBC is not that bad…P.S.say no to FOX and of course watch John Adams on HBO this will give you soem insight to the roles women historically have played in american society
on Aug 25th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
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