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cshenk

Gary wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Bruce wrote:
> >
> > In article >, says...
> > >
> > > 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."
> >
> > 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.

Thats what I am talking about Gary. No one calls a stay at hom Mom a
lazy bum. A man however, especially 20 years ago, was in for some
serious crap.

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