Facebook.com/RaisingHomemakers

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Sidenote: The main website for RaisingHomemakers is … oh god I think I just threw up a little.

So this link reminded me that in 1998/99, my “Home Ec” teacher was pushing hard for me to get into the “Future Homemakers of America” club because I can cook, and sew, and I know my way around a die-cutter. Apparently they host some sort of districts/states/nationals type of competition where young women (and a token boy, I’d guess) pit these skills against each other in a blood-soaked battle to the death… or something

I was horrified. Though she assured me that “homemaker” in this sense just referrred to the “skill set” (OHTHATMAKESITBETTERTHANKS) I managed to avoid her for the rest of the year.

According to the ‘pedia, it turns out that it was in 1999 that the FHA officially renamed itself to the “Future Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America.”But to me, they’ll always be that heartwarming group that tried to tell me that my natural affinity for arts and crafts meant I’d make a great mom.

Fuck. Them.