So I just finished studying, and I had a full chapter on just gender discrimination. It was quite obvious that there was a lot of feminist input on this chapter. There was a sentence that really struck me and I just had to throw my opinion out there. “More often than not, women have supporting roles as wives, assistants, and secretaries.”
Now, I joke all the time with people that I’m going to college to get my Mrs. Degree. We have a laugh, but then when I tell them that I seriously want to be a housewife, you can see the gears turning. Also, my major is General Studies. Know how people graduate High School and lead perfectly happy lives without going to college to be a Dr, Lawyer, or some other overly specified career-person? Yeah, that’s what I want, only, I want my degree. I want my education. I want my college experience, so here I am, getting it. Expensive little desire? You bet, but this is what I wanted. Of all the things in the world I could be, I’d love to be a secretary. Honestly, that’s what I hope to be able to do. So here I am, majoring in General Studies with an emphasis in English and Adult Career Education (basically typing, office systems, etc.) striving to get my general education, but that doesn’t cut it for some people, and they can’t seem to get it.
Okay, a bit of a tangent there, but it all ties into my general point, I promise. As far as what I’m doing with my education, people think I’m short changing myself. Someone like me who’s had excellent schooling thus far and performed as well as I have should live up to some great potential, right? Well hey, that’s not what I want for myself, so shove off. Same goes for me falling into a stereotypical gender role and being a housewife and doing all the housework and errands and all that fun stuff. Just because it’s a stereotype doesn’t mean it has to be bad. If you don’t want to fall into that category then fine, I didn’t ask you to! That’s what I want for me though; that’s what would make me happy. Fact is, as much as I loathe cleaning and such right now, it’s really only because all those things have to be done in what could otherwise be my free time away from work and school. Give me a Sunday through Saturday off with no work, no school, no big commitments, and by Wednesday I’ll be on a cleaning and cooking spree. I’ll start baking in between loads of laundry and starting organization projects in the closets and even cleaning out computer files. It’s what I like to do!
So really, my dream future would find me living comfortably as a housewife doing temp secretary jobs whenever I wanted for extra money for vacations or gifts or whatever other extras came to mind. Now tell me, what’s so wrong with that? Will it hurt you for me to live my dream, just because I’m ‘allowing’ myself to fall into some stereotype?
And for those who’d care to ignore the truth in my words and focus on being negative and telling me how unlikely my dream is, I’ll have you know it’s quite attainable and I’m well on my way in the right direction, so again I say shove off, and have a nice day =)
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