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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a mom who doesn’t work outside the home and if someone described me as an [b]unemployed [/b]mom I would probably punch them in their flinty eyed face so whoever wrote that, if you’re wondering why the moms at your school don’t like you let this be a clue. [/quote]

This seems like an odd bone to pick. From the Oxford Dictionary:

un·em·ployed (adjective) [b](of a person) without a paid job but available to work[/b]

Whether you are educated and wealthy or poor and uneducated, both of you can be considered unemployed. Even if you don't like it, it's true.[/quote]

Beyond the literal definition, it can have a negative connotation (you’re not ambitious, you don’t work, etc., which if you’ve ever been a homemaker with kids, is patently untrue on all accounts)[/quote]

I absolutely understand this but it is still, nonetheless, true.[/quote]

Words, and the context in which they are used, matter.  In this case, ‘unemployed’ while factually correct, was used to disparage women who were volunteering at their children’s school.  I was a stay-at-home dad for a long time, and spent many hours (and dollars) volunteering at schools, cleaning the house, doing the shopping, and raising my kids.  The shit is work, if people want to trivialize it by throwing in factually correct but dick-head terms, have at it.[/quote]

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