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cshenk

wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> 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?

Here it goes again. It's abuse if sent to a woman, but just a little
ribbing if sent to a man. Have you bothered to read yourself?

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