Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
| Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm |
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.
Kat

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Why would I have a debate with myself?
That's the problem with newcomers trying to be insightful about posting dynamics that have existed for years; they don't have the background history necessary to make an intelligent contribution to the discussion, Ma...er, Doogey.
*I* have a distaste for waitressing, it's a sucky job.
edited for typos
Edited 10/4/2003 7:24:03 AM ET by muffinsandtoast
I'm a writer but even I couldn't come up with this story line. Whoever the board poltergeist is, he/she has missed his/her true calling. Bwhahahahahahahahaha
outside_the_box_mom
I also remember that Max hired a housekeeper just before she left the board. She supposedly moved into a larger home and needed the help. That one sorta blew her cover cause she had always sworn she'd never have outside help. The thing was her story was getting harder and harder to maintain. I always suspected that's part of the reason she left.
I think the personal assistant/CPA/floral arranger was another attempt to create a Max-like personality. But it was more than the creative writer could handle at the time.
Sometimes it's annoying, sometimes it's funny but it's always amusing!
Note as I waive my long-time poster status badge: I'm not here too often but have been around a long time, mostly on the Parentsplace board. :)
she was due to have her new baby june or early july.
eileen
I think SOME not all of the regualrs here just have a lynch mob mentality b/c of some of the nssty's that have been around these parts and a just assume that if two sahm's agree and post common thought they are one in the same...it is kinda how this board seems to work...just ask MAX! Most of it comes from militant WOHM's. I know of a regular old time poster here who does have more that one screen name she uses here and has been banned, (no clw it is not you). the finger pointing going on here or innuendo as someone pointed out...It really is irrevelvant and does not add to the debate but proves some weakness in charachter and very bitter and miserable livleyhood imo...please remember I say some regualars as in one or two not all since this board is full of regualrs old and new. Most of the ladies here are knd hearted gentle women who are very passionate about their work statis and their families. Just ask Max...she can tell you.
Stick around it really all works out in the end... I still have a poster following me around claiming Iam not a Norweigan from norway and that I dont struggle in the written word of English...I just use it to win some point...LMAO~ It is histaricle actually and I need to stop playing into her b/c i believe she means well in the end just has seem deep issues.
And your welcome and congrats on that new baby...Im also pregnant with child #5
Edited 10/4/2003 3:07:21 PM ET by silverunity
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