Shortly after the FIFA Women's World Cup was finished, the English Football Association released a controversial tweet about the team's homecoming after the England Women's team finished third in the tournament. After many negative comments about it, the tweet was later taken down.

To be honest, when I first stumbled upon this tweet, I thought nothing of it. If anything, it seemed like a nice, supportive, homecoming tweet about how the team would be returning to their families. Then I started reading people's comments about it and was confused. Many people claimed that it was sexist and demeaned the women athletes. Yes, we know they are athletes; we just watched them play soccer in a world competition. To me, this tweet is just proving that they are more than athletes and they are going home to be reunited with their kids, partner, or parents.

This got me thinking, when did it become such an insult to call someone a wife? Or a mother? Whether or not a woman has another job or not, being a wife and mother is hard work and should be celebrated. A woman should not feel hurt when a person gives them a title of wife, mother, or daughter. It is a title that should be taken with great honor. It does not make them any less of a woman, or insinuate that they must not have a job or do anything with their life besides sitting by a pool or getting their nails done. They are simply being called something (or at least one thing) that they are.

On the other hand, for those women who are housewives or stay-at-home moms, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. We should never look down on them because they may not go to an office building and work a typical 9-5 job. They have a twenty-four-hour, seven-day-a-week job taking care of a household and/or children, which is just as hard as - if not harder than - any other career. When I tell people that I would love to be a stay-at-home mom, I receive comments about how I should "start living in the 21st century" or how I am "not helping the feminist movement out." The thing is, if the feminist movement is about empowering women and them being equal to men and being able to do what they want in life, why are so many people hating on the housewife? Maybe they chose to be a housewife or a stay-at-home mom. They should have the power to do that without being judged by other women.

Support the housewife. Support the stay-at-home mom. Support the woman who owns her own business, works in the office, or is the top lawyer at a firm. We have the opportunity to choose what we want to do or be in life. Support each other in that.