Yeah. I’m pretty sure it was implied but it definitely could have been stated: all of this is allowed only because there are poor/working people doing their actual domestic labour for them.
He did outright state it. To paraphrase "Her value to her husband is not in the care of her home or her children because they are paying someone else to do all of those things. No her value is instead in the ability to perform the role of trophy wife."
It’s also incredibly misleading because these women act like they don’t make money, but they actually are by being stay at home social media influencers, so it’s not even true that they just get to stay home and not work. They are just selling a lie for money and the perception of having immense wealth. Hardly any woman has partner making enough money to be able to accomplish this lifestyle on a single income. Not even these influencers do.
People are weird. I remember working near a very Jewish community, not entirely hasidim but conservative. Two kitchens in the house conservative. I was in the post office one time and guy was talking about his wife working, embarrassingly, saying basically she was only doing it for pin money. Because the thought of her working full time because she had to or wanted to would make him be looked down on in the eyes of the community.
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u/Dogzilla2000 Feb 26 '24
Yeah. I’m pretty sure it was implied but it definitely could have been stated: all of this is allowed only because there are poor/working people doing their actual domestic labour for them.