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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I made the comments about SAHMs wanting to be fawned over.  Maybe it's not true of a lot of the moms on this forum, but where I'm from in the south there are a lot of SAHMs who think they're practically saints.

This is based on my facebook newsfeed of SAHMs in small town Georgia who pretty much got married and started popping out kids the second they graduated college.  I think a lot of them SAH because they do not have the earning potential to pay for childcare, but I seriously crack up at the fact they post 10x a day on Facebook about going to the park, play date, whatever with their kid.  They have no other interests or life.  And then they post "odes to SAHMs" about needing to be appreciated for all their selfless hard work doing laundry, cooking, taking care of boo boos all day, etc.

I have no problem with people deciding to SAH, but then expecting to be thanked and worshipped as a woman because you did the same crap I manage to do as a working mom (except I'm also a full time attorney) just makes me think these women are lazy and pathetic.  Not to mention their constant posts back and forth about how being as SAH "mommy" is the highest calling!  Clearly they are trying to make jabs at anyone who has the audacity to achieve a career.

I have the feeling these SAHMs in the south are much different than a lot of the SAHMs in DC area who likely had careers at one point and may return to the workforce.  But dear lord, I can't take one more obnoxious former sorority girl turned housewife post about how "hard" and "busy" her life is![/quote]

I hear what you're saying, but surely you have to realize the same can be said for all the WMs who go on, ad nauseum, about how they work two jobs compared to SAHMs.  To me, it appears these are women who want to be "thanked and worshipped" and treated as martyrs.  And on my FB newsfeed, I see post after post of WOHMs talking about how they "managed to do it all" in one day, and how hard it all is.  It appears there are certain types of people who enjoy the martyr complex, and they can be found both at home and in the workplace.[/quote]

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