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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frankly,  I don't want to work with [b]someone who thinks I didn't raise my children properly because I chose to work[/b].  I don't think those kinds of women deserve to work. I'd rather hire someone else.

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As a SAHM, when I interview to re-enter the workforce in a couple of years, am I going to be at an automatic disadvantage with WOH women because they think that I look down on them because they didn't stay home?[/quote]

Sounds like it - at least the insecure ones. [/quote]

Jesus.  I never said that all SAHMs have that kind of opinion.  In fact, most of the SAHMs I know who want to go back to work someday DO NOT.  Maybe you're defensive because you DO believe that working mothers are doing it wrong. You are entitled to your opinion, but I don't have to like you.  I generally don't like people who see the world in such black and white terms.

It's not about insecurity.  It's about not liking closed-minded people.  It takes a lot of fucking balls to walk into an interview, let it be known that you think your choice to stay home was somehow the "right" choice for [i]all mothers[/i], and expect the people who might hire you to like you.  Unless you're interviewing at the conservative family coalition, I think that attitude is bound to offend a lot of people (men and women).

Finally, I personally believe that a woman who thinks that mothers who choose to WOH while their children are infants are bad parents, doesn't deserve to have a job.  You know why? That job she's looking for, now that her kids are older, was made possible by thousands of trail-blazing women who DID work when their children were infants.  Having that opinion is spitting in the face of the women that made sacrifices so she could even have the opportunity make her choice in the first place.   No one wants to work with an ignoramus.

Similarly, I believe that men who have the opinion that fathers who share in childcare burdens are somehow "less", shouldn't be fathers.

Do you understand me now?  Can we put this to bed?  Finally?
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