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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> 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!

+1.

FIFTY years ago before we were married we took turns to take all our
laundry to a public launderette, sort both our dirty laundry into heaps
for the kind of wash required, fill the machines, move wet clean stuff
to the dryer, take it from the dryer and fold and sort it back into his
and hers, all on public view. He must have done that scores of times.

It never occurred to anyone to notice or care who was washing what.

Janet UK