For those of you tired of having to support yourself in the workforce, we just learned of a new movement called the “Stay At Home Daughters” movement. It involves quitting your job, staying home and learning how to be a good wife. And listening to whatever your dad tells you to do until you get married and your husband takes over your life. Crap! There’s always a catch, isn’t there?
Looks like we won’t be quitting our day jobs. But Bitch magazine has a very interesting profile of the Stay at Home Daughters movement, which encourages young women to refrain from school and learn how to be “keepers at home.” Which mostly means supporting their fathers in anticipation of their lives as wives and mothers.
Interestingly, they’ve taken to the internet with their beliefs, through blogs, YouTube videos and audio tapes. More »