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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You ladies are prolific. I am having trouble catching up and the posts just keep on comin'!!
April
The thing with this whole thread is there are very very FEW women who do absolutely nothing with their lives but pamper themselves and oversee staff. I think we can all agree that this may not be the most productive of choices in life. But this has shifted into saying that anyone who employs a lot of people in their home as help and doesn't work REGARDLESS of what they do with the rest of their lives is shallow. If someone is that shallow, I don't think having a job will do ANYTHING to change it. And having a job really has little bearing on how shallow someone is. I think it's a character issue.
I am also going to add, although I know this isn't to you personally, but I'm on a roll here, I think all this muffinsandtoast must be lying crap is totally disgusting. I see a big difference between her and the other posters people are alluding she is. First of all, she was goaded into relaying this information about her life, she did not offer it freely. Almost every post I see either smacks of jealousy, or maybe people just don't want to debate the actual philosophical issues behind what is being discussed so the resort to name calling. When I read islimshady doing the same, my jaw practically dropped out of my head, because I can't believe SHE can't remember being accused of lying because of her supposed "impossible lifestyle". We are all well aware that life is VERY different for all of us depending on what we do, where we live, and who we are, and none of us can presume to know what is impossible. Well, except Opinion 123, who knows everything about everywhere. But that's a different story.
I am done ranting now, I apoligize tichmich for using my reply to you to vent.
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