Denise noe wrote:
> There is currently a trend for more women to drop out of the labor
market and
> stay home fulltime.  Awhile back, I posted that housewives seemed to
go off the
> TV since the days of Harriet Nelson, June Cleaver, Donna Reed and
(finally and
> perhaps suitably, for she was at the end of TV's housewife hegemony),
the
> magical Samantha Stevens.  I wondered if perhaps the show "Desperate
> Housewives" might signal a renewed recognition of those women who
make their
> careers in the home.
>   	Another poster wrote back to me, "Have you seen 'Desperate
Housewives'"?  I
> replied that I had not and the poster wrote back with a (somewhat
deserved)
> scolding: "You might try seeing a program before basing commentary on
it.  Of
> the housewives on that show, one has already blown her brains out,
one is being
> divorced by her husband because he considers her 'too much of a
Stepford Wife,'
> and one is screwing her gardener!  If you want more respect for
America's
> housewives, this program isn't going to help!"
> 	Soooooooooooo, do we need


What do you mean by "we"??

What do you mean by "need" ??

an antidote to "Desperate Housewives"?  That is, a
> program that would feature domestic goddesses or at least happy
housewives?  A
> program that would show women competently making a career of
homemaking?
>
>
>               ****************************
> Denise Noe
> Koko the Signing Gorilla says: "Fine animal gorilla."
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