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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Women belong in the home, that’s what you should tell them. While their kids are at daycare or wherever, yours are at home with their mother. This is the real feminism.

I’m so glad society is shifting and now so many more women are proud to be SAHMs (just look at the posters on this thread). I think we will soon see enrollment rates for girls drop at college because what’s the point of an education when staying at home become normalized as a career path, it’s the hardest job in the world after all. [/quote]

You are a troll, but to respond to one of your trollish points, the woman in my family who stays home has a phd.  Who wants their children raised by an unintelligent partner?  One of the biggest factors in the success of children is their parents' education level.  [/quote]

You don’t need a phd to raise children. You don’t think that young girls who see women quit their jobs and who dream of having kids and having careers might think twice? The devaluing of college education will happen regardless because of AI but the current anti-working mom and pro SAHM public discourse will undoubtedly affect young women thinking about the future. Why take on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when you see your phd older cousin quit her job to stay home? [/quote]

My kids won't have to take on any debt for their education and education is what preserves and grows generational wealth.  Those with less who make decisions using the framework that you've described are more likely always to have less.  [/quote]

Interesting. So you are saying you don’t care about young girls in low to middle income families who dream of being professionals (and would for example take out a loan to go to law school) and mothers and might be persuaded against that by discourse that trashes working women? [/quote]

No, that's not my position at all. I support educating women, whether women choose to enter the workforce or dedicate themselves to being a SAHM.  I think education is intrinsically valuable.  I also think education is extrinsically valuable beyond whether it leads to career advancement.  It helps us understand and experience the world.  It develops our ability to reason. The intellectual satisfaction of learning is self-justifying.  The list can go on and on.

I equally support men and women who pursue better opportunities for themselves by taking on student loans. Why wouldn't I?

I also take issue with discourse that trashes women's choices to work or stay home, or attempts to prescribe to women what they should do with their lives.  The poster who is making these claims clearly hasn't had the benefit of meaningful education.  [/quote]

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