Let me clarify
the 'women shouldn't work' was something of an attention grabbing headline.

Really what I'm saying is that it is sad that we have got into a situation where all the adults in a family have to work.
To be honest I am the breadwinner in our household, earning nearly twice what husband does.
If we have children, which has been put off due to not being able to afford to, it will be him that drops hours at work to look after them.

As for homophobia, if the situation didn't exist then only one person from a gay couple would have to work leaving the other free to look after children.

What I am really saying is that more women entering the work place has pushed up the cost of living and therefore forced both members of a couple to work even if they don't want to.

Women are being pressured by the media, especially womens magazines, to have it all. Your house should be beautiful, you should have a great job and your children should be well mannered, working hard at school and be well presented.
It can't be done, and the sooner the cost of living gets back to a stage where people can live off just one salary, be it that of either partner the better it will be for everyone.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 30 Dec 2009, 14:54, 2 replies)

That's fair enough
but not what you said in your original message.

I'm very glad to be living in a society where getting married at 18 isn't a financial necessity, even if that is a contributing factor to house prices being insane. Saying the world would be better if only one half of married couples had to work is a good thing (partly because either one can become unemployed), saying it's the man who has to work is what causes societies where women are forced into loveless marriages to be able to afford to eat because that's what makes people think no women should work.
(GothicTechie, Wed 30 Dec 2009, 15:23, closed)

And
missing the point on a massive scale in 3..... 2...... 1........

At what point did I say women should stay in loveless marriages?
If you read the original message, womens wages were not taken into account when a married couple bought a house.
Do you really think that I think that women shouldn't work period?

Also, who the fuck cares what I think. This is a funny website where people call each other cunts.
Do what you want with your life, I don't give a shit.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 30 Dec 2009, 15:33, closed)

"I don't think women should work."

"First of all I am a woman and I do work, but I still don't think it's right"

You have a weird definition of "missing the point", since you have yet to explain where you expect the unmarried womens' incomes to come from if they're not supposed to be working. You also seem to be overly sensitive for a website where people enjoy calling each other cunts :)
(GothicTechie, Wed 30 Dec 2009, 17:47, closed)

Fair point
Missing the point of QOTW.

It doesn't fucking matter.

So that is my ill considered opinion which contradicts itself. Don't care. It was a comment made on the internet.
Do what you want with your life, I don't care.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 30 Dec 2009, 18:51, closed)

My missus and I can live off my income, comfortably.
But she enjoys working part time - she's a scientist and enjoys the company of her colleagues. It also gives her adult company away from me and our son.

And extra pennies for toys!

Win-win.

Although we only use family for childcare...
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Mon 4 Jan 2010, 14:48, closed)