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Originally posted by dtb
This is perhaps the most ignorant thing I've ever seen you say (and that's saying something!) I'm not saying that women with lots of time on their hands (armies of babysitters and no work outside the home) can be dullards -- in fact, I agree that most of them are. I had much first-hand experience with lots of them when I was on maternity leave.
However, you try staying home (without babysitting help) with a child (or two, or three) all day, and you'll be so grateful you have a job to go to, I wager the complaining-about-his-job, crotchety SD would disappear forever.
Raising children is real work. A lot harder than sitting behind a desk all day, that's for sure. Anyone who can spout off such ignorance clearly has never cared for a child. From the tenor of your attitude, I'm sure that after two days of looking after a child you cared about, you'd be begging to go back to your miserable job.
d(And I have no respect for "full-time mommies" (what kind of bullshit label is that? If you're a mother, you are by definition a full-time mommy) who don't have pride in their children -- what, you'd rather they be ashamed of them?)tb
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DTB,
My problem was with women who do nothing else but have kids and raise kids and talk about their kids and live every waking moment for their kids. I failed to specifically define the target of my ire, and so I deserve the heat. Please understand, as the shild of a career oriented woman, I have nothing but respect for women who juggle career and children. Its their steallr example that causes me to have such a low opinion of husband-hunetsr who never have a real job, start pumping out kids early and never do anything else. I knew these awful women in college and now see them at reunions - they have nothing to say except what golf course they joined and how much they enjoy mommyhood. Sorry - solely devoting your life to doing something everyone has the biological ability to do is not grabbing life for all its worth.
The most interesting people are those who have the time and/or ability to interest others with their unique views, humor or world experience - none of which you'll get if you've been doing nothing but living in idyllic suburban ignorance shuffling from the nail salon to soccer practice to the golf course pool. Like it or not, our ability to interest others and bring something to the conversation is a product of our life experiences, good a=or bad. I'd wager that the life of an indulgent kid who followed a band across the country is at least more interesting than a woman who rarely leaves the neighborhood. If all you do is work, you're dull. If all you do is raise kids, you're dull. I didn't make this rule - its fact. I cannot help it that when I sit down and discuss politics/sports/music/you name it with women who've never done anything other than raise kids, they bore me. And they can't help boring me.
S(what can i say... its a fact)D
