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Sitcom Syndrome, And Why I Choose To Ignore All Of The Suffering Housewives On TikTok
What is my ultimate nightmare that I plan on avoiding like the plague is their lifestyle, and the entertainment of millions of users on social media at that!
Interestingly enough, many housewives and stay-at-home mothers are taking full advantage of sitcom syndrome by essentially using the daily, lived experiences of many women that are based on being overworked, unappreciated, exhausted, depressed, and overwhelmed with their childish, failure-to-launch husbands as nothing more than an energy grab for likes, shares, reposts, and earnings.
These ladies are posting reels where they are exposing how terrible their husbands are in bed. They are cursing and screaming at their children for leaving spills for them to clean up, because in the eyes of everyone in that household that is mom’s job. With tears in their eyes mothers are sharing their disappointments that come with missed anniversaries and being made to feel more like maids rather than women who want to feel noticed, beautiful, and appreciated. Some wives are infantilizing their husbands by leaving post-it notes for him to remember simple gestures like buying flowers, washing dishes, or folding the laundry.
This, my friends, is supposed to be comedy.
