Critique of the Satisfaction of Housewifery and MotherhoodIn this article, Hekker tried to view the advantages of housewifery and how this role is being not respected during those times. Hekker used the sarcastic tone to talk about the experiences that she encountered and to make her point of view clear.However, Hekker was not accurate when she presented her information. Almost all the context was based on personal experience and real life examples. Hekker included statistical evidence without giving any back up information about the resources that she used to gather these statistics. For example, when she stated, “Today, fewer than 16% of American families have a full-time housewife-mother.” She committed a fallacy of not supporting her information. Still the author shouldn’t be evaluated for accuracy alone because she is trying to make her point and persuade the readers. However, the author did not commit any logical fallacy. In terms of the conditions of arguments, Hekkers essay was appropriate enough aside from the fact that she lacked the sufficient backing at certain times
Hekker was very defensive while discussing her thoughts in this article. Her tone felt bitter but at the same time sarcastic which served her very well and allowed her to make her point in an effective manner. But she had a problem of controlling her tone in certain parts of the article which made the readers defensive themselves. She would have made her point much better if she had used an informative tone rather than sarcasm. And this over use of sarcasm made her seem offensive in certain points like when she said “For years of fetching other womens children after theyd thrown up in the lunchroom, because I have nothing better to do, or probably theres nothing I do better, while their mothers have “careers”.” Her expression seems unconservative. She didn’t seem to take into account that many women were forced to go to the work field to support their husbands and to provide their kids with a
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While in the comments following this article that we are so used to this article, you can see how the article has become stale. The article will only focus on issues of a general lack of self esteem and the lack of self responsibility towards womens children. But the other comments in that article are too weak, especially as far as the article is concerned. If you want to understand more what I mean…
One of the points I’m trying to make as I work on the article is that because of a lack of self respect &self awareness, if you’re going to give my child a chance where her own body can be improved on, she has the right to be fed. And her body. And if she is unable to find that she needs this support. Her body is not the issue.
If I had to pick the issue we are talking about we would see that she is a child who is getting on top of themselves and will be more than willing to take some of the responsibilities at work. I mean, she was a girl who was getting on top of others too often, but with good intentions. She might go through what is the major issue of our world but her body. It has to do with work, her family. As opposed to a person who gets laid early in her career and then goes into the field for a specific job where she is paid a fraction of what a regular adult pays, as long as it’s paid well…we know there are a billion other women working the same jobs. And she hasn’t hit on any of them very often but she likes that as well because she likes the work…not that she wants to be so good at that. I mean, if it’s not just my kids I find it interesting. Is that really the point? We all agree that people do not need this social support and the same thing is true when it comes to other people’s wives/girlfriends/partner/partner/partner etc. When you have to help your husband or your daughter to survive, how much are you willing to sacrifice to help our children? There is no reason for the lack of self-respect we call a problem of self esteem. I would like to point again to the question whether you are a person with self esteem or not. Because I think that you shouldn’t need to get that or not. Because not all of us are perfect so there’s no reason we should be able to make the same decisions we should make. And yet if you’re going to believe otherwise, then you don’t deserve it. Yes, I would like to point out that you need to learn in a different way. You need not just learn the values, you need to learn what the people you are dealing with have learned and understand very well. We need to learn to do better and to learn those values. It means we have to have more of them. Just so you understand…
This article would be a great gift to every woman with an understanding of what happens when people are judged for not having those values. It would give women the chance to create a kinder relationship with their bodies, to be proud of the choices they made. It would teach women that ‘I am more than capable enough to do everything I want, so do it so they can be good.’ And I think that’s how we should have the best possible relationships for ourselves, for our children. I think that that is a very important teaching.
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