This is what men feared would happen when women decided they’d
had enough of staying at home and
raising the kids, so demanded jobs in the workforce and were out all day long
and burned their bras. On the one hand, the men liked the idea of no bras, and
then they missed all that lingerie. They thought that maybe if they paid women
less money than they got, the women would decide to go back home.
Instead, the women got around the problem of not being
around to cook real meals by preparing ready-made, pre-packaged or frozen foods
in their new microwave ovens. Eventually, the children came to think of this as
normal and didn’t question the Kraft Mac & Cheese Hot Dog pyramid.
The women, on the other hand, thought that this dish was a
symbolic representation of the home under a masculine hegemony, laughed a
little inside, then ate a salad.
Kraft’s Main Dish Cook
Book, Pillsbury Company, 1970
Also from this book: Suburbanites, Mariachi Supper
Also from this book: Suburbanites, Mariachi Supper
