I think I'm now almost an expert on the how to successfully become and be an Urban Stepford Wife (USW). There are of course some handicaps inflicted by living in an urban space, such as a lack of a garden, or a huge kitchen in which to cook 10-course meals. But, all you really need, apart from perseverance and good lighting, is tons of heavily chemicalised cleaning products, spaces to clean, an oven, cookie dough, heels and a skirt. A little, frilly apron helps as well.
Oh yes, and you need conviction that what you are doing really benefits the world, your marriage, your husband and God.
I'm a believer – why, just yesterday, after cleaning the kitchen and the two bathrooms, having made mint iced tea, dinner and done the laundry and finally truly lamenting the lack of a good vacuum cleaner, I felt like I'd transcended into a higher state of being. Of course, this could have just been thanks to the ton of chemicals I'd inhaled while on my knees, scrubbing the bath tube etc.
Being an USW allows one to not only carry out such mindless tasks daily, but to imbue them with a higher meaning – while all along living in a germ-free environment. I thank my lucky starts for giving me a chance to fulfill my-until-now, suppressed USW.
Oh yes, and you need conviction that what you are doing really benefits the world, your marriage, your husband and God.
I'm a believer – why, just yesterday, after cleaning the kitchen and the two bathrooms, having made mint iced tea, dinner and done the laundry and finally truly lamenting the lack of a good vacuum cleaner, I felt like I'd transcended into a higher state of being. Of course, this could have just been thanks to the ton of chemicals I'd inhaled while on my knees, scrubbing the bath tube etc.
Being an USW allows one to not only carry out such mindless tasks daily, but to imbue them with a higher meaning – while all along living in a germ-free environment. I thank my lucky starts for giving me a chance to fulfill my-until-now, suppressed USW.
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