About pillow cases having 'housewife' written on the packaging?

[brettgirl2]

In Sainsbury's. I mean have I entered a timewarp and gone back to 1950? I was and put them straight back on the shelf.

Because 'housewife' is a vile sexist term

You might think it is, I don't.

You don't have to be a gentleman to eat gentleman's relish or a housemaid to get housemaid's knee.

I don't see why it's a vile sexist term either. Women with older children who look after the home & don't have paid employment may not choose to self-identify as SAHMs - what are they supposed to call themselves?

Dozy if you have children I'd call you a SAHM
f you don't I'd call you a lady of leisure :o
Housewife to me just sounds one dimensional, like you have no purpose beyond shining the curtain rings. But if you choose to call yourself a housewife then who am I to correct you?

Yabvvvu it's a pillowcase!
Housewife
Housewife
Housewife
Housewife
Housewife
Housewife
Maybe a housewife invented in.

I have tennis elbow, vile ball batting cunterists

It a tennis player to tennis elbow !! :/)

* or a tennis player **

Apparently you now have to be a man to eat McCoy's crisps though! And yorkie's, and one of those triple chicken things from KFC. Meh, men can keep that crap.

Oh, & lady of leisure is much less one dimensional!

Oh dear, oh dear. This is a prime example of someone taking offence where there really is none to be taken!

In fact, grabbing it with both hands and taking it for a long walk!

OP, I challenge you to find rectangular pillow cases with a flap at the end that are not called 'housewife', then come and post them on here.

interesting how opinion is divided on this thread as to which are which...

"Flappy pillowcases" hmmm, not so appealing!

Right consulted Laura Ashley: housewife is the non-flappy one! Oxford is Flappy!

A Housewife pillowcase was adapted from a previous design with no flaps by the Housewife Co-op based in Bolton back in the late 1890s. It's named in their honour as the internal flap to keep the pillow in place was considered a breakthrough idea. I learnt this back in my sewing class days so no idea if it is right!

It's like getting pissed off about agricultural husbandry - it's not just man's work!

so the housewife is the one without the useless dangly bit?

It's like a wifebeater vest, isn't it?

Hahaha, indeed stealth!

Thanks, slowco4ch, what a great story. OP, would you be happy if they were called Housewife Co-operative pillowcases?

YANBU Brettgirl - I agree with you and I am technically a 'housewife'....totally outdated phrase - could call the the pillowcase 'plain rectangle' instead.

Yes lets rename them "Who ever changes the pillowcases pillowcase"...
bit of a mouthful though.

spb

I like to think of myself as a 'Family Manager' or better yet 'CEO Ukatlast Family'.

where is the course stealth? pmsl at 'the one without the useless dangly bit'

Surely if it just said 'plain, rectangular' then those of us who are domestically challenged would know wtf it meant?

professionally offended really is a mumsnet-invented term that needs to go to room 101...... It's only a discussion, just interested what others think