Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
Find a Conversation
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

Pages
When i think back on those times...I feel very fortuante to still be alive.
Edited 10/4/2003 6:50:34 PM ET by silverunity
Edited 10/4/2003 7:21:02 PM ET by silverunity
I know Maxchandler & her sister went to a meet & greet of some of the ladies from the board & I know one girl Maxchandler invited over from here at ivillage that had just moved to Nashville & they have gotten together. That girl has been posting a long time over at the board. Claire is a regular. I've not met her but we have exchanged gifts & pix.
When you post daily (or about that) on a board for as long as we all have over there you become friends & do decide to meet IRL. After all these years we feel like one big happy family.
I prefer to just lurk here. I'm not into debating. Every now & then I'll put in my nickle's worth but usually don't even offer a penny.
Maxchandler does participate at some of the ivillage boards like the general chat or sah support ones & I know I've seen her at like a specific topic board (cosmetics, disney, religious support boards) I've seen her postings. They are under her new name but her profile even says she use to post as Maxchandler.
What is wrong with giving your user name (if you don't mind) from one web site to another? I don't find that odd. Then again I don't mind saying where I post. If people from one site want to go over to another to see what is going on I'll be glad to say I've posted there.
It doesn't matter how long the posters have been posting. The mere fact that you can take a group of posters who agree with one another & accuse them of all being one person yet take another group of posters doing the same thing and demand respect for them since they have board status is wrong (feel free to disagree but I won't change my mind). Being a public debate board you are bound to get new people all of the time. This board has a bad reputation (which I'm sure you could care less about) for being snobbish. I've heard that lurking around ivillage & places outside of this community.
Don't bother replying. Your on my "ignore" feature along with a few others from this board that I totally disagree with about, well, everything. This is really a waste of my time, but I was bored & checked the "ignore" list tonight. Turning that feature back on since I think it is the greatest thing ivillage came up with on this new format.
I'm curious as to what her online friends thought of all her lies.
Her sister is a Sahm and has been for about as long as Maxchandler. As for other friends, there in her hometown, she has met and became friends with several Sahms, more so since her oldest started school 3 years ago. So she does now. Our board is made up of sah/woh/wah and pt variations of them all. We have ladies who have grown kids, those with small ones, and up until very recently ladies like myself that are not mothers. It isn't a parenting board so not for mothers or sah or woh only. We have some single ladies who chat with us from their work. There are women who sah and women who woh that are very into their careers.
Like I said. I've known her for over 6 years. Many of us women do feel comfortable enough to give out personal information, participate in secret pal & secret Santa gift exchanges, and even give out pix. We trade coupons, etc. We don't openly give out the information right on the web site for anyone and everyone to read. I think you misunderstood.
Lies? I've never once caught Max in a lie. The others have not either. There has never been any questioning of her or her character on that board in all the years. Like I said, we are all friends who chat off/on every day, let the others know when we will be away and not posting. It is a nice board with a lot of really nice ladies to chat with.
She never mentioned you.
If you've read this board for such a long time, you will surely remember that she claimed she graduated from college and then she claimed she never set foot on a college campus. She claimed she was tall and thin and then she claimed she was short.
Could you describe her physical appearance in generic terms? I mean, if you've met her you could tell us a little bit about her appearance without revealing her identity. Can you do that?
Pages