Very Few Women (Day 416)

Very few women my age 

worked with visionaries. 

We were too busy: talking, 

frosting birthday cakes,

mopping the floors to

a mirrorlike finish. Really, 

being a housewife was

a very big deal. Respectable. 

My friends and I grew up 

looking forward to keeping 

our own homes. Now, it’s 

called something different: 

domestic engineering.

These young girls today, 

they think they want it all: 

Dating, college, husbands, 

corner-office careers, and 

then the kids, and those 

ridiculous jogging strollers—

they don’t run enough?

We could have done it all,

too, of course, but we 

focused on raising our sons 

and daughters to be less like 

their parents. Well, I for one 

am just glad I was able to be 

there for my children when 

they came home from school. 

The world is different now, 

though, isn’t it? Too expensive. 

And dangerous—all these men 

with guns, shooting everyone! 

Who knows? My turn may be 

next. Or yours. So, we’ll see.

(c) 2018, by Hannah Six

Image: ArtsyBee/Pixabay

With Disdain (Day 403)

With disdain, he considers modern women: 

ditching wifely duties, wearing sweatpants,

working on laptops after dinner instead of 

donning delightful pegnoir ensembles to 

entertain their men. So distasteful. 

They wanted to go into combat? Hah!

As far as he’s concerned, enough is enough.

Time to stop this ridiculous anti-male crap.

Time to stop trying to be men’s equals, learn 

to gratefully accept their cushy feminine fate. 

If these ghouls today really want to serve their 

country, they’ll go back to stiletto heels, micro 

skirts, and sexy lingerie. Instead of getting 

offended every time a man looks at them, ladies 

oughta smear on a little red lipstick, beautify 

the Earth like God intended they should.

After all, why would any girl pretty enough 

to hitch her little wagon to a well-heeled man 

give up all that luxury and ease—to say nothing 

of her biblical duty to take care of her husband 

and children? It’s the greatest job in the world!

The problem with modern women, he decided 

years ago, is they’re incapable of understanding 

how damn good they actually have it. Sad!

(c) 2018, by Hannah Six

Original images:

Housewife: Public domain image

Trump: Gage Skidmore via Flickr