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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I worked like a bugger for a big salary for years before having DS. I certainly imagine I will again someday. In the meantime, guess the GNP will have to muster on without me!
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Princess Diana could have been a pretty pampered princess like the SAHM's that we are talking about on this thread. She easily could have spent her days working out and attending fashion shows. She decided to use her position to help others. Now, some of that was because she had to but some of it was because she felt passionate about certain subjects. I deeply admired her focus on landmines before she died. She was a person with problems but she used her position and wealth to make a difference in AIDS education, land mines and mental illness.
When you talk about ultra-rich SAHM's with staff that spend their whole day concentrating on themselves, I don't see why you would respect them for simply living their lives. Heck, with that theory, I might as well respect Charles Manson for living his life and I think he is one of the scariest people in the world. These women have a chance to do so much more-to use their time and their money to help others. They don't and choose to live in a vacuum. I do find it sad and a terrible waste.
I do not know any women like that and I haven't seen any on the board. My sister, as I have said before and gotten in trouble, spends her whole life on herself. It is her comfort zone. She can life her live like that but I don't have to respect it.
Kristi
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