Can Mama’s Boys Be Good Husbands?

Mama’s boys can be good husbands only if they are feminist men raised by feminist mothers.
Mama’s boys can be good husbands only if they are feminist men raised by feminist mothers.
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“I ended up falling in love with someone I wasn’t supposed to and my entire changed. I lost the support of my birth family but I gained so much more.”
Some of the core tenets of those first self-help books written by eugenicists – incompatibility and deference to men – persist in modern marriage advice.
While women may no longer be told to stick to kitchen duties in many homes, do they have the agency to put their self-respect first and wishes of others around them second?
Must a woman shut up on conversations around job security, finances and money, because society will focus more on her husband’s incapability to provide for her, instead of her capability to earn?
It is not enough to raise feminist daughters if we still expect women to shed that cloak of progressiveness at the altar of marriage and turn into demure submissive wives.
This becomes the crux of our existence in Indian society; get married, start a family, or what most people call it- settle down. When will it change?
Achieving equality on the work front is incomplete if women still have to struggle for equal distribution of the workload at home.