"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Bruce wrote:
>>
>> says...
>> >
>> > "cshenk" wrote:
>> >
>> > > 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." If anything, a stay
> at home husband would be looked down upon as a lazy bum, staying at
> home and letting the wife work.
>
> I raised my daughter as a single parent since she was age 7. I was a
> stay at home (every chance I got) and also the working parent. I was
> the elementary school's very first male room mother. The beginning of
> the year room mothers meeting and I was the only guy among many hot
> looking moms. Sheldon would have liked that.
>
> Anyway, they didn't feel threatened, they treated me like their mascot
> male room mother. Those were good times. I did the room mother thing
> for 4 years and enjoyed being part of it all.
I don't get that either. I don't feel threatened by anyone unless they look
at me in a menacing way, are brandishing a weapon or are speaking to me in a
way that makes me feel unsafe.