Why I Want A Wife By Judy Brady

In Judy Brady’s short essay “Why I Want A Wife”, in 1972, published in Ms. Magazine sarcastically explains the sacrifices that a wife makes for her husband and her children. She supports her claim in working so hard for her family throughout the whole essay, by using a sardonic interpretation, instead of just coming out and stating the facts, and she makes the life of a man sound so easy and delightful that even she wants a wife. She has no filter because she is so fed up with doing everything for everyone, that she is putting all of her emotions and thoughts out there for everyone to hear because she is tired of holding it inside. I mean no one is really going to say “I want a wife who will remain sexually faithful to me so that I do not have to clutter up my intellectual

“I want my wife to quit working and remain at home so that my wife can more fully and completely take care of a wife’s duties” said Judy Brady… she kind of makes being a wife sound like more of an underprivileged job rather than an entitlement, and she makes women sound like easy ‘pick-me-ups’ when she concludes her piece by saying “My God, who wouldn't want a wife?”. She paints a picture of a superhero when talking about wives, almost like men couldn't survive without them because a wife literally satisfies their husband in every way. So really she is saying that men have no standards to uphold because even if they fail time after time, their wives will always make everything work no matter what they have to do to accomplish it. She appeals to logic when she talks about how she is being treated, because who on earth would love to basically kill themselves to make a loser that fails fix his own problems, because really all he is, is a lazy bum, happy? No