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> I think women have largely been presented a false promise by progressives There's a lot of sneering and judgment by women, toward women who choose to be a st
by vbtemp 6y ago
> I think women have largely been presented a false promise by progressives
There's a lot of sneering and judgment by women, toward women who choose to be a stay at home mom and not have a career.
- TuringTest 6y agoThe value behind that attitude is that it is a problem to think that women are the ones expected to choose staying-at-home, when culturally this expectation should be distributed equally among genders.
- LeonardMenard 6y agoYes, exactly. I am disappointed (but not sneering nor contemptuous) when I find out that another one of my well-educated and ambitious female peers has decided to become a stay-at-home mom. Not because I don't think it's a valuable or valid role to play, but because I have absolutely zero equivalent male peers who have done the same thing. Another well-educated women who choose to give up her career and stay at home, without a corresponding man doing the same, is just another data point that makes MY career look invalid, and sees MY career as optional. Like, more power to her, but it does make me sad at the state of society.
- vbtemp 6y agoAll of the time when I hear that commentary, it has to do with them finding stay-at-home moms unintelligent, petty, vapid.
- TuringTest 6y agoYou're literally replying to a post not following that pattern. This "all of the time" is uncalled for.
- yourapostasy 6y ago> There's a lot of sneering and judgment by women... Do you think they would feel differently if the bar to owning a home was lowered to one-income household, 20% DTI, 20-year mortgage, no more than 3% interest, 10% down, no PMI? I suspect a lot of distortions come from a very misaligned house purchase requirements to income availability picture.