Occhidiangela,Mar 8 2005, 04:16 PM Wrote:Woman, you're hard to ignore ~
you're a wife, you're a mother,
and so much more.
The up front combinatino is a challenge to get right. Funny, have any of you noticed those who try (or get stuck with having) to add father to that list and all the rest can morph into that stressed out "supermom" who needs therapy?
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I don't see those words as anything bad. When adding up half the population, you get plenty of everything, and plenty of good things added to society.
Occhidiangela Wrote:Raised 4 kids: yes, what a concept, raised her own kids, did not delegate it to THE STATE, THE COURTS, GRANDMA (who ws dead) or anyone else. Ran a household on a budget. Knew how to say NO. Put research into deciding on our family's diet, and we ate what she put in front of us, or nothing. Guess who got enlisted in preparing and serving all that? And learning by doing . . . the kids. Phi Beta kappa grad from college. Gave a gift money could never buy: herself.
Pretty pointless rant actually. If it works for you, great, but a lot of people don't do it exactly that way and that's also great. A lot of peopel go for this approach and some cscrew up miserably. I used to get into arguments all the time, would never follow some rules without being annoying, and still worked out pretty good, somehow I picked up the responsibility and some good work habits from somewhere.
Occhidiangela Wrote:A woman: much more than yet another body for the state or the corporate labor pool. But gee, that is such an old fashioned concept.
Not really. I don't walk around seeing people talk about someone as simply "a member of the labor pool" and this applies to both genders of human.
I will agree that a lot of people get too caught up in value systems like "traditional families" or "liberated ones" without it entering their brain that peopel all need to do different things with their lives, some go traditional and it works "like you" some go independent thinking (me I think, hard to think of other value systems that stand out), some go "liberated".
Edit: changed the part before this.
Edit 2: Let's try again. It's hard responding to a rantish post, the main problem I had was it seems to say the stereotypical "traditional" raising of kids is always the best wayt to do it, I don't agree pretty strongly with the "always".
Of course, the biggest question I and many young peopel have about women's day in my area is: Why isn't it a day off school? :P
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The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
Some people in forums do the next best thing to listening to themselves talk, writing and reading what they write (source, my brother)