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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]tangents about scandinavia are missing the point. it's rude to say this to someone and intended purely as an insult. anyone who says this is an ahole.  [/quote]

I agree that it’s rude to say it, but picture someone being in the position to need to answer a question about why they are staying home with their kids. I think making people answer that question is asking for a rude answer.[/quote]

No one asks someone why they stayed home. Come on. You're creating a strawman because you can't just acknowledge that this is a rude thing to say. Give it up.[/quote]

I don’t think these conversations happen in real life. Maybe in some passive aggressive frenemy situation.

I’m a SAHM and I do occasionally hear women say they hated staying home or couldn’t wait to go back to work or worked hard for their degrees or some variation of this. It doesn’t phase me at all.

I think insecure people feel bad or would find it offensive whether a working mom says something rude to a SAHM or a SAHM says something rude to a working mom. There is this one mom at my child’s school who seems insulted if I invite her daughter for a play date. Mom always answers with some variation of her working or can’t because she is working. It is her ton that is rude. Other girls in class hang out and I’m trying to be inclusive. That mom openly complains about any event during work day.[/quote]

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