[rescue] Bigger Iron at Home (was: SNMP, Baby!)

[Brian Dunbar]

Mike Hebel [mailto:nimitz at nimitzbrood.com] on Tuesday, November 11, 2003
11:11 PM said;

> On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> >   This is something that really pisses me off.  My neighbor is a 
> > stay-at-home mom, *BY CHOICE*.  Her husband goes out and earns the 
> > money to support the family.  There is no forcing involved...they LIKE 
> > it this way, and they're happy this way.  Yet she gets a lot of flak 
> > from hairy-legged women about how she should ditch the guy who is 
> > "making her do this".

> I've known quite a few people like this.  They did this for their own 
> reasons - most often because the lady in question _wanted_ to be a mom. 
>   Several of them were women who had law degrees or full-time RN 
> certificates and could get a job anywhere.  They _chose_ to be where 
> they are - most people do.  Even if sometimes they don't realize it.

I just asked my wife (stay at home mom, educational specialist (learning
disabled kids) by profession and she reports no hairy legged woman
harassment.  Quite the opposite; a lot of moms tell her they wish they could
afford to do that.  Maybe we don't have enough feminazis in Wisconsin ....

~brian