Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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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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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 6:52pm
When I've been in the pool I don't want to smell like chlorine through the night. So I take a shower.

If I've been to the beach I have to get rid of the sand when I come in and then yes, I'll take another shower that night = 3 that day.

I like to get my day started by jumping in the shower. Doesn't take that long. Before I climb into bed at night I want a shower. It helps me drift off to sleep after a warm flow of water.

You just don't get my point. But OK.

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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 6:53pm
Huh? Do I know you? I'm sorry, I don't recognize your screen name.
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 6:56pm
We give monetarily to such causes. I would have no clue which ones as my dh and the accountant take care of that.
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 6:57pm
I couldn't imagine having to have a job to feel worth something or secure. Can't imagine.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 7:00pm
Are you having a Max flashback? I know I am.

Susan

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 7:03pm
LOL OTBM. I was just thinking the same thing.

Susan

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 7:03pm
But not all changes are for the better. Lots of people expend huge amounts of energy in inventions and implementing societal change. But is change always an improvement just because it is a change? And are all inventions (or discoveries) good? Personally I think the world would be better off if nobody had invested great energy in domesticating the tobacco leaf, or the opium poppy.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 7:06pm
I disagree with Thoreau on this. The unexamined life IS worth living. Introspection is a fine thing, but hardly necessary for life to be worthwhile.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 7:10pm
Why yes. A paying job is the only thing that matters. In fact, it matters even more than the end results of that job. Drug dealers are more deserving of respect than wealthy, idle SAHMs because at least they keep the (black market) economy moving and they provide job security to police and jail guards. Which is more than you can say for SAHMs.
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Registered: 08-19-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 7:17pm
Please answer my/iaudrey's question: Do you believe we have an infinite amount of these resources at your disposal? "These resources" being water and energy.

Yes, I am getting your point that you like to be clean as a whistle and that showering is something you enjoy and you must have crisp sheets or you simply cannot sleep. *You* aren't getting *my* point that all this use is wasting environmental resources. You have conveniently ignored that point time and time again.

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