The article criticizes the Netflix series 'With Love, Meghan' featuring the Duchess of Sussex, suggesting it romanticizes domestic life for women. The author reflects on her feminist upbringing, where housework was viewed as a constraint on women's ambitions. She recounts her experiences in France, feeling that the rigorous domestic expectations placed on French women symbolize a lack of liberation. The author argues that the series glorifies parts of life that her generation has actively sought to escape, emphasizing a disconnect between modern portrayals of femininity and historical feminist struggles.
Cooking, cleaning, and managing a household are tasks that disproportionately fall to women, reinforcing gender roles that we as feminists fought hard to dismantle.
The Duchess of Sussex's portrayal of domestic life in 'With Love, Meghan' glamorizes aspects that my generation sought to resist, showing how far perceptions can shift.
Looking at the lives of French women, I felt they were trapped in traditional roles; we gained personal freedom yet faced societal expectations of being the perfect homemakers.
Women's ambition should not be limited by the confines of domesticity, which many of us felt was an area we desperately wanted to break free from.
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