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Even if they are lucky enough to have a husband who earns enough to give them the freedom to stay home, the economy or that job may shift and they have to be able to earn in order to be able to survive long-term. I cannot see, nor does anyone I read predict, that the world will return to one-wage households. So it is a disservice to women to tell them they ‘should’ be able to stay home. And women who can need to see this as a great blessing, that may make other women envious, as riches do make people envious. Making room for widely differing choices is hard, but necessary work.
And love, which is good parenting, is not predictable by life-style, which defeats our longing to have rules that always work. “I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan. Cause I’m a woman…” This is the song from a classic 1980′s commercial for the perfume Enjoli.
Where does bacon come from on hog?
He gently asked her what would help make things easier for her to make decisions. While she had so many issues, the number one thing was crushing debt. He went on to discuss how young folks are moving into adulthood with so much debt that they don’t see parenthood as an option as they can’t afford it. My delusion continued when I decided while pregnant with my first child to go to war-torn Sarajevo to cover Pope John Paul II’s visit there. CBS Radio sent me a flak jacket, required attire for the plane ride over, and with great pride I modeled it in front of the mirror and got all puffed up thinking of myself as pregnant-woman-war-correspondent.
I wrote, what now seems to me a ridiculous essay, on how I was going to be a super-mother journalist and would go into Iraq and interview Saddam Hussein while carrying my baby in a baby-bjorn carrier. Everything2 ™ is brought to you by Everything2 Media, LLC. All content copyright © original author unless stated otherwise. If you look up the lyrics to the Peggy Lee song, it’s “give you the shiverin’ fits”. Akin to other song lyrics like “I got chills, they’re multiplyin’” or “you give me fever”.
What Was the Commercial I Can Bring Home the Bacon and Fry It Up in a Pan?
I found this interview from 1979 that refutes this commercial as a declaration of the direction of a woman’s place in society. It is an interesting snapshot and demonstrates the popularity of this commercial. It uses the Leiber/Stoller classic, I’m a Woman as its basis. This song was popularized by the talented Peggy Lee and the singer of this Enjoli commercial is definitely sending out strong Peggy Lee vibes. I’m not going to ask my team to do anything I wouldn’t do myself. I demonstrate to them that while I check out from 5-8pm to be with my family, I can still get stuff done and done well.
There is no concept or ideal in Italy about “having it all”. There is the concept of being a “mamma snaturata” — a bad mother. I have bent over backwards in Italy to always pick up my kids at school, take them to water polo practice or scouts. I have felt a big cultural pressure to be a good mother here. There is zero pressure on fathers in Italy as far as I can tell. Enjoli Perfume Ad featuring a woman singing “I can bring the bacon home, fry it on the pan and never make you forget you’re a man.
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The Enjoli commercial featuring a modern career woman promoted the fragrance as “the new eight-hour perfume for the 24-hour woman.” It represented a woman’s various roles over the course of a day. “Bring home the bacon” refers to earning a living. “Fry it up in a pan” represents her attention to her domestic responsibilities. The end of the commercial shows the woman in an evening gown as she sings that she never lets “you forget who I am” — a capable, competent, take-charge individual who represented the feminist “superwoman” of the 1970s.
It came roaring back to my brain as I was frantically working on the brunch menu for my daughter’s birthday. I was so worried that the bacon burned in the pan and, as a result, my whole house smelled like fried pig. Cause I’m a woman…” This is the song from a classic 1980’s commercial for the perfume Enjoli. Also, so interesting to read how Italian working families have no guilt about leaving their kids with grandparents. I had to leave my then two year old with my mum for care when he was little and felt guilty every day. We often hear about how grandparents have ‘their own lives’ and feel encumbered by the burden of their grandchildren and daycare.
What commercial has the line I can bring home the Bacon?
I do think things are changing for the better on that front. I have several female friends in their 30s married to Italian men who say their husbands are much better about participating in household duties. As far as the grandparents are concerned, I agree with you, it is so nice to see that. It is rare in the US for relatives to step in and help with the kids and that is indeed something very nice about Italy. Family also often care for the elderly as well. Elderly people who would probably be in nursing homes or some elderly living situation in the US are taken care of by family (often with the help of immigrant “badanti” elderly care assistants).
Lucky for me, the Vatican cancelled the trip. I still didn’t want to give up on the idea and when my son was just five months old I travelled to Sierra Leone when it was in the midst of a brutal civil war just to prove I was as tough as all the other journalists. It was an incredible story, but not very smart of me to go. Two AP Television colleagues died there in that period and I realized it was not worth the risk. The lyrics for this are an update from the original song with a decidedly early eighties take on how popular culture was defining women’s roles.
So although I was a great mamma, it was a serious cost to me. Over the years, I have had to make many professional sacrifices as a mother and I don’t regret any of them. I have also learned that I have to keep work and kids separate. Forget the interview with Saddam Hussein, I cannot even bring my kids into the office on a day they don’t have school and expect to get much done. I cannot bring kids into the field with me on an interesting story, they inevitably get impatient and fed up. ” The Enjoli perfume commercial ’s jingle contained the iconic line, “I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan.” Charles of the Ritz launched the ad in 1978.
Firstly, I have to disagree with my sister on the point of grandparents helping out in the US. I think our family has moved around a lot and as such we all live far from family support. In 2003 when we moved from NY to AZ then to WI and now to TX I noticed how many young families do live near family and do rely on grandparents, aunts and uncles do help out regularly . I think much of the US is not as mobile as we have been and live in the general area of extended family and they rely on support of their families to a greater extent than we realize.
I can put the wash on the line, Feed the kids, get dressed, Pass out the kisses and get to work by five o' 9. I can bring home the bacon, Fry it up in a pan, And never, never, never let you forget you're a man, 'Cause I'm a woman. It's from a tv commercial for Enjoli perfume.
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