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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s fairly boring and reductive and reduce anyone to what they are doing for what is the end is probably only like 20% or 30% of their life.

I also think competency is such an underrated thing, so if you are competent and energetic about whatever you’re doing you’re like in the top 5% of people. [/quote]

Huh?  It’s your job that has an end date, aka your retirement.  Unless the worst happens and you experience a loss, you are a wife and mother for good.[/quote]

Well yes and no. This question was if thoughts on “stay at home mothers” which is a description of a specific time in a woman’s life. You’re not a SAHM when you’re 67 and your kids have their own families. It’s a role and identity that has an end date like anything else. Eventually I stopped identifying as a student. One day I could stop identifying as a lawyer bc I am doing other things.

I think it’s reductive to box people in generally….so yeah I find it boring and undermining to lead with assumptions about someone being a SAHM just as much as it is to assign anyone one facet of a person to their entire being. [/quote]

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