It’s cringy and gross, and the idea behind it is rooted in sexism and archaic patriarchal bullsh*t
to issue a credit card card to a woman without a husband’s signature. So, if it makes me a killjoy to not laugh at jokes about men having control over women’s buying power, then I guess I’m a killjoy.
Another embedded idea in the “hide my packages” joke is the trope that men are controlling in general. This idea also needs to be doused with gasoline and set alight. I mean, men can and will try to be controlling, because that’s a norm that still exists to this day, but it’s time for all of us to quit putting up with that shit. We need to demand better, and part of that means owning our buying power and not asking for permission.
Because guess what? If you can afford it, you deserve to have it. If you can afford it, and your husband doesn’t think you should buy it, he actually doesn’t get a say.
Every couple needs to come to some kind of agreement about finances, and each partner should spend within the confines of that agreement. But. Don’t lie. If a woman has to lie to her husband about her purchases, she’s got a much bigger problem in her marriage than a few too many Amazon boxes on the front porch.
It’s one thing to simply not mention a purchase because you are totally confident your spouse wouldn’t have an opinion on it. But all these supposedly funny memes imply that a wife ispurchases from her husband. Which tells me that either he is a selfish controlling douchebag, or she has a spending problem that needs to be addressed. Either way, where is the joke? I promise I have a sense of humor, but this joke falls flat for me every single time.
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