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jinx the minx

> wrote:
> 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?
>

No doubt. But the women feeling threatened?? Gimme a break.

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jinx the minx