SAH IS HARMFUL!!!

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Registered: 12-12-2002
SAH IS HARMFUL!!!
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Thu, 07-08-2004 - 11:32am

Or at least this woman thinks so.

Okmrsmommy-36, CPmom to DD-16 and DS-14

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-23-2004 - 12:56pm
So you admit it, you are part of the problem.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-23-2004 - 12:56pm
Yep. The shame.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-23-2004 - 1:00pm
So would you would take your child to a doctor who hadn't been to medical school if it were made legal?

When a reality does not equate to politically correct, it does not become a stereoptype. It still gets to be reality. That is - typical.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-23-2004 - 1:04pm
I know quite a few. You need to get out more. And there is no stereotype about women retraining and leaving male dominated fields for female dominated fields, because so few women retrain anway. Men do that. There is no typical behaviour at all assoicated with women anywhere retraining for anything, let alone the imaginary gender defined on you are trying to pretend exists. The typical behaviour for women is a)quit to stay home b)quit to do some unskilled pt thing with little responsiblity and lots of flexibilty.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-23-2004 - 1:05pm
That fact that I won't pretend I can't see how women are creating the problem they are complaining about? Sorry. Don't care to pretend that, no matter how loudly you stamp your feet.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-23-2004 - 1:07pm
I get snow days even when the schools in my town don't.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-23-2004 - 1:09pm
Sure they do. Early retirement for older engineers is quite common. And anyway, so many more engineers retire at 50 than become teachers at 50 that you can't possibly assign the stereoptype to the *become teacher* behaviour. Unless you don't know what a stereotype is.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-23-2004 - 1:16pm
Except for people who have huge inferiority complexes and no idea what a stereotype is. Fortunately, I think most of those are the wives of the engineers or the other bosses who will make decisions in the future about 50 yr old engineers based upon what 50yr old engineers are likely to do...rather than the engineers themselves. I can imagine it now...the dinner table... Dad the engineer boss is talking about some mature engineer woman he'd like to promote...but wonders if she's thinking retirement like so many engieers at that age. Mommy the sah, personality typical for a board like this pipes up "...but Honey...she's a woman...she's not going to retire like a man...probably she's going to just quit to be a teacher any minute now...you know thats what those older female engineers always do". I guess he'd laugh. Hope he thinks clueless is cute too.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-23-2004 - 1:17pm
Can you even consider the notion of being able to provide for you and your child AND YOUR HUSBAND at this point in time, if ever, just as well as he is able to provide for the three of you?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-23-2004 - 1:21pm
Exactly so if you want to try and claim there is some stereotype relating to who changes careers form engineering to exotic dancing...its clearly a stereotype defining male engineer behaviour.

Most people who actually retrain in any real way from anything requring education or formal training to anything else requiring education or formal training - are men. Hence there is nothing stereotypical about Grimal's move.

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