Hah, my first reaction to the 'just a housewife' attitude was 'clearly, you have never actually met a military wife, especially a Special Forces one' (which I think we can roughly correlate to a SHIELD-spouse) because they would have chewed you up and spit you right back out for *that*.

I thought about her being SHIELD (because she certainly rolled with it all, even not!dead!yet!Fury in her barn) but my brain ran off with it being her farm and hasn't come back yet. :D

It all circles back to the lack of female representation in films I think - having Laura be 'just' a housewife and then show us how important that is, because it is, would be excellent - but when you don't also have other shades of female lives you get the 'just a housewife, ugh' reactions going on and then I feel the urge to make Laura more than that. (Which, we have other ladies, but minimal screentime to date.) And then I wonder if that's also a bad reaction and I should write the thing where she is 'just' a housewife, because sod that noise.

I think the canon is most likely to end up with her being a Military Wife, and I think that'd be interesting to explore. I'm not familiar with this though, so I've wondered off into 'she works for SHIELD' and other territory...but have ended up researching the US military anyway because I wondered if mayb she was military herself before SHIELD. Oh, the black hole of research *grins*.