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Gary

Bruce wrote:
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> In article >, says...
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> > Bruce wrote:
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> > > says...
> > > >
> > > > "cshenk" wrote:
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> > > > > Don and I decided one of us needed to be home when
> > > > >Charlotte was born and since I was active duty and he had just
> > > > >'retired' and my income potential was higher, he stayed home. It was
> > > > >tough because the stay-at-home women felt threatened somehow to see a
> > > > >man do it with a small child while the wife went to work.
> > > >
> > > > I think you have a high powered imagination - why on earth would they
> > > > feel threatened? More likely your husband felt threatened.
> > >
> > > Is that you talking or that same old chip on your shoulder?
> >
> > I completely agree with lucretia here. I can't imagine why stay at
> > home women would feel threatened by a "Mr.Mom."
>
> You may not be able to imagine it, but that's the reality cshenk
> described. Imagine harder.

cshenk is the one that needs to imagine harder. If stay-at-home women
felt threatened that a man would do that, they must worry that their
husbands might want to do the same and THEY might actually have to go
out each day for a workplace job.

Stay at home is serious work and lots of work but you don't have to
deal with other people. Stay at home means you are your own boss. It
makes a difference. If you've never done it, you are clueless. I was
able to do both and I do know the difference.

A stay at home man is often looked down upon as a lazy bum, letting
his wife go out each day to work.