Does it bug you that many women, who should be staying at home with their young children,?

Question

instead are getting up early every day and going to work at jobs they don’t really need so that they can afford to buy an extra vehicle they don’t need, eat in fancy restaurants, and go on extravagant vacations?

These women, in my opinion, are pursuing an opulent lifestyle at the expense of their children. OK, I’ll admit there’s another reason this bothers me. I’m a well educated white guy with a crummy job. There are not enough good jobs to go around and if some of these yuppy bitches in short skirts would stay home, it would open up more jobs for those of us who really need them. I’m talking about the women whose husbands make good money already. I am not talking about single mothers who need to work to support their kids. That’s another thing. These affluent women are taking jobs that a single mother, one who is maybe less well-connected, might be able to get.

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I've got to admit that I don't really believe this stuff myself. I was mostly just trying to provoke a response. Looks like it worked.
I am frustrated at my inability to find a rewarding career, and that's the reason for this outburst. I am a single guy who does not really mind the "crummy" job I have. In fact, I am really something of a slacker who would rather have a less-demanding job at lower pay than slug it out in some high profile high stress job.

So never mind. If I had a wife and kids, I would probably want her to work so I could spend more time sitting on my lazy ***!

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Hey never mind. I don't believe this crap.
I was thinking of trying to get a job as a conservative radio talk show host, so I thought I would try out a likely topic. Looks like I hit some nerves.

Answer 1

But you see, my friend, the percentage of working women today who don't *need* to work is vanishingly small. Look at the median income today - it's well under forty thousand a year. Yet the median price of a new home is a quarter of a million dollars. The median price of a new car is fifteen thousand. Utilities and insurance costs are astronomical. And have you tried to buy shoes for a growing child lately? Eighty bucks for a decent pair for my nine-year-old granddaughter, and they only lasted seven >weeks< before she outgrew them. And unless her mother buys the kid clothes at the Salvation Army store, a proper wardrobe with which to start the school year is three hundred - and at the rate the kid grows, that'll ALL have to be replaced by the first of the year.
Now pile on those expenses the cost of gasoline, the cost of auto insurance, the cost of food...hey, you find me a pound of freakin' hamburger under two bucks and I'll show you dog food in disguise! And don't even get me started on the price of heat for the winter!
Sorry, my friend, but those working women haven't a choice, with rare exception - and she (Anna Nicole Smith) just died! And most of those working women are in fact NOT single mothers but are married to guys just like you: hard-working, educated adults with s h i t t y jobs. Gotta have two cars, and not just for running kiddies to soccer, fer Christ sake, but for essential transportation. Hey, I'd love it if my wife could take the bus to work - but in most of the country, including right here, they ain't no bus TO take!
Sorry about your job, but dollars to donuts it isn't that the jobs are hogged by women. All the experts tell us that the times, they have a'changed and you cannot count on going from your graduation right into a well-paying job and be guaranteed that job until you retire or kick the bucket. A working adult of *whatever* level of education and experience can count on a major career change at least (!) five times during his lifetime! That almost always means going back to school to prepare for a new job and starting out at the bottom all over again! I know, it's crummy - but it's life these days. It 's not that the women that are screwing the guys out of jobs - the women face that same daunting prospect. Hey: YOU try going back to retrain for a new job with three small kids and a monster of a mortgage. Bottom line: I feel for you, brother...I even find myself wishing I had made a career out of the Army when I had the chance. But life goes on, and you and I gotta go with the flow.

Answer 2

What about the mother who makes enough money to support the household and the husband works because he wants too. And you call these working women b******!! I guess your mother never had a job or she'd be one too right? You're attacking something that you can't have with a biased, sexist opinion. It's no wonder you have a crummy job. Look at your ideal! Envy is such an ugly thing and so is jealousy.

Answer 3

Who are you to decide what people should or shouldn't be doing? Maybe you are jealous because you dont make enough money at your crummy job to do these things and cant find a decent job. Instead of focusing on what others have you should concentrate on bettering yourself and see a therapist about your anger issues.I don't think that you are worried about single mothers not having jobs I think it is more about you. I think that you are just too lazy to get off your butt and find a better job for yourself. You are really sad, I hope that you come to your senses.

Answer 4

We did without a second car and luxuries so I could stay home and raise our two children. We wore second hand clothes and bought used everything. When the kids were in school I worked in the cafeteria,(yeah...lunch lady) so I could have the same hours/days/vacations as they did. They turned out great and are now in their 20's with kids of their own and I wouldn't change a thing! I'm not sorry and don't feel deprived. Quite the opposite!

Answer 5

Why must it always be someone elses fault. A lot of those mothers have children to send to college and have worked hard at their own education to allow that. Stand on your own two feet and get a job because you can, if you put your mind to it. Take on the responsibility yourself and stop blaming others for making your life hard. We can all do that if we wanted to, but for me it's not a choice.

Answer 6

well sounds like i'm the only weirdo in the bunch but to a degree i understand what you are saying. to many people have children becuase it's the "thing to do" not becuase they want to raise their children. if they don't need the money for the basics they are putting materials before their own families and allowing someone else to raise their children. i'm a single woman who would love to hav children - adopting some - but the problem - i am gone 13+ hours a day 5-6 days a week for work.... who would be raising the children - the after school programs or day care???? thats NOT fair to the kids..

Answer 7

Lighten up man. Quit blaming your problems on somebody else.
If you are so well-educated you should be able to find a good job if you work hard enough at it.

You sound like a bitter guy with anger issues. I think you need some counseling.

Answer 8

I'm guessing you're only asking this question cuz you want a job, as you said earlier.
Not that I AM a mother that does that, but why do you care and maybe they have a good reason. If their husband is already making good money, then, who's against extra cash?!

Answer 9

Yup it bugs me too. I am one of those women whp works a job to pay for a car...but I teach, and not many people want that job anyway. Looking to be able to stay home in a couple years when my husband finally gets his degree, then you can have my job. :)

Answer 10

What bothers me are parents (of both sexes) who create a world of "no consequences and no rules" for their children. They indulge them in their shallow desires for the best and newest of everything (without working for it themselves), they get them out of every scrape at school and deny any attempt at discipline. They wink and smile when alcohol is served to minors in their homes. Sometimes they even provide it as long as "the kids sleep over". They are despicable in the raising of their own children and in contributing to the delinquency of the children of parents who call to make sure an adult will be on hand at their "parties". They make me sick.