Posted on 06/11/2007 10:30:30 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Because Dad doesn’t read all the mommy books he’s not doing it right. I think Dad’s doing fine using his instincts and Mom doesn’t have a clue.
She probably realizes it and would rather have a profession.
A pity it took counseling for this woman to understand her situation.
I would remain single before I'd ever marry a hyphenated anything.
Oh. But, of course. Because all women are idiots. /sarc There are men that are incapable of voting, as well.(notice, I do not say all men) While there are also quite a few well educated, well informed conservative women. (such as the female Freepers) Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go do get the Monday chores done.
It also reinforces the idea in the children’s minds that Dad is the law-maker *and* the judge. ie, “I have the power and the authority to control whether you ever see another cookie forever!”
This goes a long ways towards getting the kids’ attention.
As my mom was fond of saying: “This is not a democracy. I am a benevolent dictator. If you piss me off, you will see more dictator and less benevolence.”
UnPC, this alone says it all.
In short, it's a Dad thing, she wouldn't understand...
the infowarrior
The kind of woman who feels compelled to hyphenate her last name
That's the first thing that jumped out at me. I often wonder about women that do the hyphenation thing.
My dad was a great "mommy" and he also worked. I don't know where my mom was at the time, but I know he used to take care of me and even would take me to work with him. Of course, I was always daddy's little girl and even when I got older my mom worked on making me feel guilty for not being closer to her.
You’re correct, of course.
The reason I think it was a mistake was that women were, if we listen to the deranged ranting of feminists, much happier before we gave them the right to vote. Ever since the 19th Amendment, a hard-core minority of women have been giving us men a non-stop shower of verbal manure.
Ergo: how do we make women happy again? Take away their right to vote and end the feminist ranting.
;-)
I don’t think her problem was so much that he was running the household, but that he was really good at it. She had bought into the TV myth/image of men and women.
She fully expected to be the powerful breadwinner every day, and come home at night to “Three men and a baby”, with her husband starring as the bumbling boob who cries “Thank god you’re home! I can’t do this!” while the pots boil over on the stove, the toaster smokes gently (with charred fried eggs all over the inside), and the baby screams inconsolably.
She of course then saves the day by getting everything back on track in less than ten minutes, makes snarky comments to herself about her ridiculous husband, and still has time for a bubblebath at the end of the evening.
I think it's genetically programmed into them. It's the signal to leave the nest and start your own household.
Uh, honey, that's what you and he decided together would happen. That's why he stayed home while you went off to work. Don't you remember?
"You can do it your way, or you can have us do it...but you can't have both. If you want to control how it's done, do it yourself."
An ancient principle of Man Law.
As for how to make women happy? Lots of chocolate. I think it's in our genetic makeup or it's the estrogen that just makes us unhappy with everything. :-)
Seriously, there are people who have written on here and were very serious and quite sexist when speaking of the 19th amendment.
That is why many Ameican women have problems staying at home, because many were not prepared when they were young to do it. If their moms made them learn how to cook, clean, and etc, the way dads make their sons cut the lawn, take care of repairs, do heavy work around and outside the house it does not become a culture shock when they get marry and assume those chores. I knew two Asian women, one was from Hong Kong where she is used to the shopping and free Western life style, while another one was from rural Taiwan raised in a more traditional stay home regiment. Guess who got cabin fever and culture shock to domestic chores. Mind you, both women worked outside of the house and come home. I think alot of it is upbringing. I rarely hear that a contempary career man has culture shock when he has to push the lawnmower around on a hot afternoon, chainsaw a couple of trees, or work on the car. It is the women who are having culture shock in domestic duties that theirs mothers and grandmothers have been doing generations before (most of it have been automated vs hand power). Ladies it is time to go back to basics before one ventures outside.
It makes sound economic sense for the parent who can earn the most to go to work. And with one parent home, the child is getting parental care instead of daycare.
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