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- Dec 17, 2019
Then telling women they are not failures or lazy if they want to be SAHMs or SAHWs or just want to work part-time. It gets them out of the workforce.
this probably belongs in a philosophical thread about gibs but I'll put it here: I agree that most women will freely choose to prioritize the domestic sphere over paid work. But there is an obvious consequence of this; financial dependency on one man can easily turn into financial dependency on the community.
This thread is full of angry yapping about how people need to just get off their lazy butts and get jobs. I think many people here are capable of simultaneously holding the two beliefs 1) able bodied adults have no excuse for not working 2) women should care for children and the home and not consider the obvious implications because you all simply don't really think about women and our lives and the realities of not earning your own money in the same context as you think about, well, real people.
Women having to combine fulltime paid work with small children is very hard but what is also extremely unfortunate is middleaged women having to do lowstatus lowpaid work because their husband died, got sick, is no good, etc etc etc, and no amount of years in the home mean anything in public life. It's not just a personal issue, either, women who have raised children who must now earn their own living are now less available to their own families and their communities.
I expect I'll get a lot of responses that those women's children should support them. I don't want to make this comment too long so I'm not going to sperg about how that's not a sufficient answer, I just want to point out that if society is telling me I have to work or I'm garbage that is going to make me very very wary of taking time off work to have children.