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Originally Posted by skylark
I think that the backlash is defensive... like maybe the stay-at-home moms view the show as a criticism of their own lives. Trying to look from their perspective... I've often felt a little patronized and defensive when watching a Wife Swap show where one of the wives is telling the other that she isn't a good mom for not cooking, cleaning, etc. everything around the house because the other mom has a job she is trying to balance.
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I can see their perspective. But I didn't see the purpose of the show as saying that being a stay at home parent isn't a real job (although, many feel that it isn't so that's also the basis for the backlash). I see the show as saying that some stay at home parents dream to have a paid career and this show will get them that on a trial basis.
As Wife Swap and stuff, the mothers do get criticized a lot. In traditional gender role families, instead of criticizing the men for not stepping up and making it more 50/50, the moms are criticized for not doing "a woman's job." (
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