On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:16:54 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>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.