Comments on: Why I Want a Wife.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:52:53 +0000

It seems like this is trying to be sarcastic in the end, after listing off all of the things that a wife is expected to do, the author just tosses out there, “Who wouldn’t want a wife?” to accentuate the satirical nature of the piece.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:49:34 +0000

The way this is written makes it seem like in all families the husband doesn’t even like his kids and just sees them as a nuisance. I feel this is a strange point to make, as I am pretty sure that most fathers love their children just as much as their wives do…

By: Sara Levy

Sara Levy — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:09:50 +0000

You know, I really don’t think this essay is very funny. I know it’s “feminist humor,” but I don’t think it’s accurate. I think any man who is like this doesn’t deserve to have a wife, and that many men who have wives are not like this. There is such a thing as a man who respects the woman he loves.

By: Sara Levy

Sara Levy — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:07:18 +0000

Do men love their children? The husband that the author depicts here seems to want to have nothing to do with his.

By: Sara Levy

Sara Levy — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:06:34 +0000

Now this paragraph seems realistic to me. Even though it was written in 1971 it still applies today.

By: Sara Levy

Sara Levy — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:59:08 +0000

I’m confused, does this women even like being a wife? The picture she paints of a wife’s “duties” is oddly specific and detailed. Is that what it is like for her?

By: Linnea Bickeboeller

Linnea Bickeboeller — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:34:45 +0000

He is basically saying that woman are tools to make men happy and lazy. He is pretty much a jerk

By: Linnea Bickeboeller

Linnea Bickeboeller — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:33:24 +0000

He wants a wife who is like a prostitute, only the fact that she would be his own personal prostitute because she is not allowed to have sex with anyone else while he can philander about with whom ever he pleases because he is a man and thats what makes it right. Pig.

By: Linnea Bickeboeller

Linnea Bickeboeller — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:28:19 +0000

He just wants a wife to wind up doing for him what he cannot and does not want to do

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:07:56 +0000

I read a really interesting opinion article in the paper recently about feminism, and about how ‘feminism’ has come to mean something undesireable, something bad, but really, anyone who believes that women should be able to go to college and get a job in what they want, not just a nurse or teacher, is a feminist. This reminded me of the newspaper article, and how we really have come pretty far from what it used to be (although we still have a ways to go).