The fact that women could do a lot of things doesn't mean that they all did them equally well. And how hard was it, to serve corn pone, pickled beans, and pottage every damn day? People around here used to eat 15 variations of dumpling and bread, bread, bread...
Nowadays, y'all expect us to cook steak dinners and serve organic vegetable julienne, like you're living in a permanent episode of Downton Abbey. 😅
Would you really want to wear homespun and wear clothes full of patches? Nowadays, you can just go buy new clothes and the seams are straight, and you can just throw them in the washing machine, when they are dirty.
Y'all romanticize everyone's crappy life.
Would my husband trade me in for some illiterate, toothless woman, who smelled bad and served him boiled potatoes and sauerkraut for dinner, and died giving birth to his 12th kid?
Nope.
No and my wife would rather I be able share my feelings than mend fences with dull square nails but she did still swoon when I built a shelf from scratch once
My husband and I are both real tradespeople, so we have respect for labor.
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