“A good proletarian family welcomes an American guest to their home.
Guest:”You must have a really good cleaner – your house is so tidy and clean!”
Host:”Oh no, that’s just my wife…”
“But you surely must have a great cook – the food is fabulous!”
“Oh, nothing like that! My wife does all the cooking”
“Well, look at your lovely and well behaved children – your governess does a great job”
“No, that is not the case… my wife looks after the kids”
“Well, looks like that crafters in town are rather skilled – look at all the stunning textiles around your home”
“Oh no, my wife does all that too!..
Guest:”Don’t you bloody tell me that you sleep with that work horse too!”

Unfortunately, no matter how much we will rally for the gender equality, there will never be anything like that. The differences are too deep embedded into our minds and looks like some retailers favour the 1940s style of advertising, which brings the spirit of those times back and not exactly for better.

These twelve images were displayed on banners all around the shopping centre. I was a bit baffled by them. If they were innocently going for the ‘kitsch’ 50’s thing, why portray only this ‘super-woman’ character?

The images seemed to add more guilt/stress to the hysterical shopping frenzy.

Women really want the dream at Christmas.

Women have to try to push back against this desire to be Martha Stewart. Martha Stewart has trained assistants and she doesn’t exactly have the ideal family life, either, although she does great Home Porn.

Oh, nvm, she’s merely a fable.