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[calissa]

A friend on LiveJournal is looking for stereotypes of mothers and homemakers.

I was thinking of stereotypes of perfect mothers and housewives. Not quite Stepford Wives, though. The warm beautiful woman who is there for everyone all the time and never has to make time for herself for she gets her satisfaction from making afternoon tea for all the neighborhood children, for instance. Or the ideal soccer Mum. There isn't one stereotype, there's a whole range of them, and I'm trying to pin them down. If I can identify enough stereotypes, then I might write them into a novel.

So... does anyone have any traits that they identify (or have seen identified in the media, in film, in fact, almost anywhere) with idea suburban mothers? Or any specific traits that indicate such motherly perfection? I ought to admit here, that my thoughts during my time out were not nice, so if you respect stereotypes of perfect mothers and homemakers, then you may not wish to volunteer anything.