On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:44:47 -0500, jinx the minx
> wrote:

> wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:12:18 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>
>>> wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:43:19 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/14/2016 10:32 PM, cshenk wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't know why people/morons seem to assume that older women
>>>>>>>> never worked outside the home, Hell a lot of us worked outside
>>>>>>>> the home as well as doing most of the work at home after work.
>>>> At >> > > least these days the husbands, boyfriends etc., are helping
>>>> out a >> > > whole lot as a rule with the house and kids.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheri
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> True on the younger ones helping more but plenty of the older
>>>>>>> generation men did too. They were however raised where the
>>>> mother >> > didnt generally work outside the home and it probably
>>>> seemed sane to >> > them to not think too much about how the floors
>>>> got mopped and such.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Of eligible women participating in the workforce, in 1950 it was
>>>>>> about 27% while today it is almost 60%
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm suprised it is that low. It seems more like 80% now.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Stay at home moms was quite common when I was a kid, not so much
>>>> now. >> Lots of things have changed, but back then one person could
>>>> make >> enough money in a good job to support a family, buy a modest
>>>> house, >> one car. I'm not sure we progressed when we warehouse kids
>>>> in day >> care.
>>>>>
>>>>> We didn't really. 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.
>>>
>>> No, it was there, prejudice clear and simple and women who could not
>>> hndle a man as a stay at home parent.
>>>
>>> He'd do the laundry in the complex and there were several who'd get
>>> upset that he was washing my under things and Charlotte's baby clothes
>>> and *loudly 'whisper'* that he was some sort of pervert. Charlotte was
>>> in a stroller at his side as they did the laundry. Reverse it, lady
>>> doing her husband's underthings. All normal and no comments. They
>>> could handle a guy doing his own laundry but got snarky if it was
>>> during the week. They could not handle a guy during the week doing all
>>> the families stuff while watching a toddler.
>>>
>>> I went down and confronted them once but it didnt get better until
>>> several other guys picked a time and showed up enmass for laundry at
>>> the same time.
>>>
>>> You can pretend what you wish, but 2 decades ago, a man washing his
>>> wife and kids laundry in a public complex, could be in for a less than
>>> pleasing environment. If you are unaware of that, then you simply
>>> didnt live on that side of life.
>>
>> I am not pretending anything - clearly you Americans must have
>> perverted minds if that is how people saw it, though I kind of doubt
>> it. I go in the laundry room here and even if someone else is in
>> there at the same time as me, I am NOT watching what clothes they are
>> washing. Jesus Christ - what a sewer mind you have!
>>
>
>Sounds to me like her husband felt inferior and self conscious.

Or perhaps couldn't take some ribbing?