Close behind was "Shrek 2," slipping one place to No. 3 with $24 million in its fourth weekend, while "The Stepford Wives," a light comedy about perfect wives, opened at No. 4 with $22.2 million, which was higher than the studio expected, Reuters said.
"I was used to drag queens, and all these women up there seemed programmed to have careers as perfect wives".
Men are still not doing 50percentt of the housework and child care; corporations are still preventing women from occupying 50percentt of upper management; parents are still pressuring women to become perfect wives and good mothers.
Their only dream was to be perfect wives and mothers; their highest ambition to have five children and a beautiful house, their only fight to get and keep their husbands.
But for all the "lean in" rallies and glass ceilings women are breaking, we can't seem to get away from antiquated notions of how women must first and foremost be perfect wives.
Second of all, this statement just feeds the tired notion that women must be perfect at everything they do -- perfect wives, perfect mothers and perfect career women.
