I wonder if Camera Girl knows that if she were a zoomer she’d be considered a “trad wife.” I’m actually afraid to tell her what that is. She’d shake her head and tell me that people today are ridiculous and I shouldn’t waste my time talking about ridiculous things. But she’s so far out of the mainstream that she might as well be from another planet.
And that brings me to the topic of today. How to find trad wives for my grandsons. It’s a complicated question. I wonder if Google Ads has a category for it? I’m sure there are dating sites that categorize people by the lifestyle they align with. But I don’t trust my grandsons to handle an assignment this important. I’m not even sure if their parents are up to the challenge. I think this requires Camera Girl to handle the interviews.
I don’t expect her to have the final say over the bride but I think she should be given a veto over the candidates that are obviously flawed. Now of course the heart wants what the heart wants. But I think it would make good sense to have some oversight of the matrimonial process. Let’s face it, men are not very savvy when it comes to women. In fact, the zoomers may actually be responsible for this whole kerfuffle about the question of, “What is a woman?” Maybe they honestly don’t know. Sure, they’ve seen them online but have they ever spoken with a live woman since graduating college?
What would make sense would be some kind of practical exam. Let’s see:
- Make spaghetti and meatballs from scratch.
- Make decent coffee.
- Make pancakes.
- Figure out the menu for the week.
- Bake an apple pie.
- Entertain your prospective in-laws without saying the word “cringe” once.
- Show that you like kids.
- Tell a joke.
- Go shopping with your prospective mother-in-law.
- Don’t look at your phone once during dinner.
Now I know this is a stone-age list. Women nowadays can’t cook, don’t want kids and have no interpersonal skills except in the office or on-line. But that’s the point. Men should be trying to find a way out of the awful world that girl-bosses and feminism has created. If they marry, they need to find a woman that they’ll be able to stay married to for more than a month. And if a woman doesn’t intend to have children, then there’s no imaginable reason to marry her in the first place. If she wants companionship, she should save time and money and buy a cat or two or three.
Now it’s entirely possible that there are no more wifeable women left. Maybe the whole western world of women is composed of girls who want to work in middle management and eventually end up as middle-aged, Botox-shooting, cat-keeping, barren girl-bosses spitting venom at the whole male sex for not wanting to serve as their place-holder partner at the corporate parties and gatherings.
If that’s the case my recommendation is for my grandsons to go marry a girl from a traditional country where women still give birth to children and think of house-wife as a pretty nice career. But we’ll have to see how my talk with Camera Girl goes. She’s ornery and may not agree right away. But she’ll come around. She likes to help young people. And she can give remedial classes in the spaghetti and meatballs exam question if it’s a problem. After all nobody is perfect.