Thanks women's rights for making me go to work everyday and pressuring me into voting, it would have really sucked to have the burden of lounging around the house all day. (credit to Ruminations) amirite?

THank you for actually giving credit.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Oh I'm sorry, some people actually want to achieve something with their lives instead of being a stay at home mom

by Anonymous 14 years ago

as if being a stay at home mom is a bad thing? i have a bachelors of science in math, and im a stay at home mother of 3. I guess I havent achieved anything????

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You know you could do something with your life instead of staying at home cleaning and taking care of kids.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

What about the three kids that need the love and care of their mom? Should she leave them with strangers that may or may not properly take care of them? Kids need their mom or dad while growing up, that's what's wrong with todays society, everyone thinks someone else can raise their kid, then wonder why their child has strange habits

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I'm sure they can take care of themselves after a while.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Sorry, I refuse to let my 4 year old, 2 year old, and 3 month old take care of themselves....... And yes, as children grow they should have more and more responsibilities and the ability to be self sufficient, but shouldn't an adult with experience guide them in the right direction?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Send them to daycare. They'll have the needed social interactions and will also be learning. I'm telling you from experience, my parents sent me to my grandmother for the first five years of my life and I only talked to her and my parents, I didn't have a chance to learn how to interact with other children. Then, I got thrown into kindergarten and I didn't know how to talk to anyone. Maybe it was just my aspergers coming out, but I'm saying they need to be able to interact with others, besides the siblings, their own age.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

(.): I was the same way, my mother stayed home with my brother and I. I'm 20 and still have problems interacting with people.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Get them a babysitter and take care of them at night?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Parents raise their kids. Most parents (unless they're rich, which most people aren't) have to work so their kids can live in a house and have food and live a nice life. Sure, you can be a stay at home mom if you'd like, but I know I never want to be a stay at home mom. I would hate living confined to my house. It sounds horrible.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think her point was that taking care of children isn't "doing nothing with your life." Of course she can do other things, but maybe that makes her happy. The whole point of women's right, or human rights in general, is that you get to choose what you want to do with your life.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I got that, but I think that taking care of kids IS "doing nothing with your life," and that is what I'm saying. I'm not saying it's a bad choice or whatever, it's just that she's wasting a Bachelor's to take care of kids. If that's what she wanted all along, there is no use to getting a Bachelor's.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

My God, I hope you can't have children. Or that you at least wisen up before you open your legs....

by Anonymous 14 years ago

"wisen up"? I think you're the one that needs to wisen up. If she doesn't want to have to throw her very important life away for some dang kids then she should not have to. I'm not going to.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I am doing something with my life, rather than letting the television raise my children, I am being a loving mother, and teaching them values. I am not the mom that complains about society and hollywood "ruining" my kids. There is nothing wrong with a mother who works, and I know that most families aren't fortunate enough to do it that way, but since I can, I will.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Is it it to late to use a rule 14?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Do not argue with trolls?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Ha yupperoo, I feel like since I already started, it might be too late

by Anonymous 14 years ago

My mother is more than a loving mother and all my life she's worked from 6 in the morning to 8 at night, and I think I turned out ok. She never complained about society and hollywood ruining my sister and me.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I'm not saying you haven't achieved anything but if all women were unemployed we would be considered less than men; OP is showing resentment that women have gotten more freedom rather than all of them sitting at home all day.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Once again my argument is that I am NOT unemployed. I am not "sitting around all day" I have about an hour or so of free time until they wake up from naps. Then I teach them, nurture them, feed them, and mold them into loving members of society. And its not being "less" than my husband or any other man, it's being different than him; I am contributing to the family in a different, bust equally important way.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

just like the stay at home women of all time. you do the exact same thing as women from 50, 100, 200, 500 years ago. you could argue that that's what women were "built to do"

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Are you saying that women should not have the right to stay at home if they want without being harassed about it? Leave stay at home moms alone, they're great. And so are women who are lawyers, doctors and CEOs. Celebrate all women, not just the ones who deviate from "the norm."

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Ah, no.... I thought it was funny, so i posted it here, for the amiriters to see. I'm totally gung ho about women's rights.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

well I'm glad you don't actually think women's rights should not have expanded past 'making sammichs for the breadwinners of the family'

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Again, yes I know but in the past women wouldn't even have gotten a chance to have a college education; when your children are all grown up are you not going to use that degree for a job? Are you still going to be lounging at home?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Most stay at home mothers will go to work once their kids start school. And taking care of kids isn't "lounging at home"

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Thanks women's rights for making me have to get up and make my own sandwich.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Silly women, never happy.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Well..I'm still a happy spoiled happy wife!! Making sammiches all day!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Haha this is what I used to think back when I was in elementary school when they were teaching about women's rights. Of course it's the principle the matter and blah blah blah, but when you're a kid you don't really think about these things.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I like the fact that I can choose to work if I want to... and I kind of want to if I get my dream job.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

thanks women's rights for giving me a voice in modern day america, and giving me something greater to aspire to than becoming a secretary in a sexist world. unlike some people, apparently i have hopes and dreams that extend past the gender lines. i'm just happy that i can pursue those dreams and make something greater of myself than a couch potato that clings to pathetic neighborhood gossip as social interaction.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That is a pretty inaccurate description of the +/- of woman's right, there are still lazy bitches hanging around who choose to do the stuff you talk about. You're right when you say they have the option now, but it was always there, it was just harder back then

by Anonymous 14 years ago

oh, i am very aware of the lazy bitches who choose not to vote because it takes too much brain power and marry rich so they never have to work a day in their lives. i'm just thankful that women who actually want to accomplish something with their lives CAN. using my right to vote, going to college, and getting my dream job is the very LEAST i can do for women like susan b. anthony and alice paul who worked tirelessly so women could be seen as equal. otherwise their efforts are in vain.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

^ like.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The whole point of women's rights is that you have the CHOICE. You're not pressured into anything, and you can do whatever makes you happy, if it's getting a career, great! If it's being a stay at home mom, that's great too.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I completely agree, but isn't that just it? The huge argument above is going on because one user thinks that being a stay at home mom is stupid, while the whole point is that now we have a choice. Back then, working as a woman was looked down upon. Now, CHOOSING to stay at home is looked down on.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yes, but if women had no rights, no one would look down on stay at home moms, because after all what else can they do? However choosing to be a stay at home mom, seems to be the easy choice, even though it's really not

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It's funny, because it seems like people in favor of working women were getting voted down. Sometimes you have to wonder if people's values have REALLY changed. -Worry-

by Anonymous 14 years ago

they weren't voted down for supporting women's rights, they're voted down for bashing stay at home moms.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

-Rereads the comments- Oh, right. xD

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Because being a stay at home mom is NOT an easy job at ALL. A man can go to work from 8-5 and still have another 15 hours before he has to head back to work, plus a two day break each week. Moms don't have breaks--ever. And they're not paid for raising their children and taking care of the household. So all those who put down stay at home moms should just hit their heads upside a wall.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You have good points, I agree. But stay at home moms do get paid! It's the fact that their child grows up to be successful in life and all the credit is given to them, I feel like that is the biggest payment a child can give to their parents.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

This post would have been funny and less stupid if it said something like "Thanks women's rights for destroying chivalry".

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I agree. Woman: 'What happened to chivalry?' Man: 'Feminism killed it.'

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think it's funny that all these girls are sitting on their asses on a website arguing about how they want to do something with their lives. At least the moms are raising their kids. If you have time to sit around on a computer, how about you go "contribute to the world" like I'm sure none of you will actually do. Some people have different dreams than you do, get over it. If all women just wanted to get their dream job and not worry about "dang kids" then none of you would even be around. You don't need to be in daycare your entire childhood to learn social skills.. That's ridiculous.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

(...): It's a Sunday afternoon. Most people aren't at work or in school, so of course we're not doing anything to contribute right now. My dad is watching football, and he's not contributing either.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

(...): says the dude who is ALSO assing around on a website, contributing nothing to society.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

(...): You're a fucking idiot. What is it that you're doing? Fuck off, you prick. We all know that raising kids is not a paying job. Daycares are needed sometimes when the mother actually has something else she needs to do.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think they gave us a choice, we can still stay at home, but now we can also work...and what's wrong with choosing your country leader or having a say in it?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Just giving credit doesn't mean it's okay to copy the post.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Not everyone on here goes on ruminations, and I wanted other people to read it.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You 14yr old whores supporting big aspiration n shut gonna endup in taco bell mcdonalds or hair saloons anyways. You can dream big, but I just stated the reality.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You pretty much just described your future working establishments.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

what's a hair saloon?

by Anonymous 14 years ago