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Originally posted by mmm3587
I like to think that people make their own position in life. Society influenced these women to never work and never have kids. Essentially, to live a pretty pampered life. They've, for a while, had no major responsibilities aside from getting the Jag washed and getting their hair done. I think it sucks that society has programmed anyone to think that this is acceptable. Men, women, children, whatever.
But that's karma. Some people really bust their asses and have nothing. Others bust their asses and get somewhere. For most of society, the era when you can just do nothing and sit by the pool all day is over. If some are realizing that later than others have, I sympathize, but I'm loosing a lot less sleep over that than I am the hungry, sick and dying here and around the world.
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Really? It was society? I actually wonder what influenced them to do so. Because the society I grew up in involved two grandmothers and a mother who all worked. If these women are from my generation (maybe a big if), it seems outdated to think that they were really being told not to learn a skill/trade/career and to assume that someone would come along and support them.
I guess I tend to agree with DS (and from your spelling of losing, I assume you are her) that the women who quit working once married and who don't have kids are kinda looking for a free ride. I think the same of men who do comparable things (an example, trust fund brats who would rather drain off their family's wealth than get a fucking job).
