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Originally posted by taxwonk
I am not arguing with you. I am merely curious. Would you say that those women who choose to be stay at home moms rather than go back to jobs outside the home are deluded, or otherwise incapable of appreciating that what they are choosing to do is burdensome and degrading? Or are you suggesting that there is some element of cultural force or coercion that deprives them of the ability to choose freely?
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Oh, for heaven's sake. Do you think she wasn't speaking hyperbolically? Sahm-dom as slavery is pretty much a thing of the past, at least among those of us have the luxury of choosing it (not that I actually chose it, exactly, but that's another story). The most degrading thing I have to do any more is change the occasional poopy diaper, and that's hardly ruining my life. The rest of the distasteful stuff (scrubbing toilets, pulling weeds, getting up early in the morning) is contracted out (or in, in the case of the getting up part).
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