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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be better if we reverted back to the old ways and I didn't have to take care of a sick baby all day, and work, and then after putting said baby to bed, drive downtown and work more until 3AM.  All so I can live in my 1200 square foot home.

How freaking ingenious - who is the moron who fought for my right to kill myself working and being a mommy at the same time with a child who is always sick and never well because she is in some F-ing daycare rather than with mommy?  And because most women work now, home values are double what they used to be as a value of average salary compared to average home price.  Today, the market expects two people will work to pay for a home.

Being a woman today rocks!  [/quote]

You make good points, which will be glossed over and buried by something else.

Feminism and patriarchy are two sides of the same coin. They both oppress women, just in different ways. Now instead of being a slave to your family, you can be a slave to your boss.

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AMEN, and I am so glad someone has finally pointed this out on this board. I see all this constant bickering between SAHMs and WOHMs and there is this underlying lionization of the modern workplace that I just don't get. [/quote]

I stay at home. Why on earth would I fault, judge, or criticize women who work out of the home? I don't. And I don't truly believe that any but the angriest minority of women on either side really truly cares what any other women do.

If you believe feminism is so unbearably awful, then, by all means, return to the pink collar ghetto. Insist that your boss pay you less since you don't have a family to support. And you'd better not have gone to college for anything besides an M.R.S. Have your husband tell you how to vote. Sign everything Mrs. His Name His Last Name. Make sure he knows he's valued, and that helping out around the house, even helping raise his own children, is totally unnecessary. Since several PPs, or one really big dingbat troll, seem to have no clue what feminism is, may I suggest Gail Collins's excellent http://www.amazon.com/When-Everything-Changed-Amazing-American/dp/0316059544.

Really. I think the grown ups know that most adults make their best choice possible, and it's total whipped up BS to pretend we all gve a shit what anyone else I doing.

Oh and: duh, patriarchy still colors how we all live and work. Whether or not we get to bury patriarchy rests on our ability to recognize that equality is positive.[/quote]

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