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[quote=Anonymous][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]

That actually wasn’t the question though.  OP asked “what do you think about women who are content to be just wives and mothers”.  It wasn’t about the early years of being a SAHM although some people took the thread in that direction, and it’s not the same thing.[/quote]

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