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.

Oh get over it. Not everything has to be politics. Don't buy it then and move on in your life !

Go on confuddled!

Yes tell us confuddled

Given the history of it being invented by the housewife cooperative I think it would be offensive to change the name. If it was named as an instruction as to who should change it that would be different, especially if it was to be a new name.

MinesaPint, you're dead right.

the current fashionable euphemism for it is the toilet. it has no name and goes through euphemism fashions.

This is the best thread ever!!! Talk about being PO!!

So should I not have Oxford pillowcases because I don't live in Oxford?

Well OP, if this is the worst thing you have to complain about, you must be having a wonderful life. I'm jealous of you.

YABU.

It's a bloody pillowcase!!! I don't understand why people get so het up about crap like this.

presumably it's just one of the things that was bugging her and the one she happened to share at the time. Do you only ever start a thread on MN when it's highly serious?

No but I also can't understand why or how a pillowcase can be considered sexist.

Well given that it's called the "housewife" I can see quite clearly how it may be assume it refers to women's work. Apparently that's not the case (I didn't know that before this thread) but seems fairly obvious to me.
A bit like if a dry cleaners advertised: "Women! Get your husband's shirts cleaned and pressed here for only £2 per garment." I'd be up in arms.

How about Crapper, as it was invented by Thomas Crapper.

Whils we are at it, why not ban the use of Mum, Mother, Grandma, Aunt, Sister, Dad, Father and all the other 1000's of words that refer to gender. Everyone refers to the glass ceiling for women, but when you get stupid references about housewife for a pillow case, then it's a wonder that these women are ever let out of the playpen. There's just no hope for the future now.

I despair doesn’t even begin to cover it.

WTF did you search to resurrect this ZOMBIE!!

I think I said all I want to say about 1000 days ago