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From: chuckb@fluke.UUCP (Chuck Bowden)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: housewives
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Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 11:38:21 EDT
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>From a recent net.women posting describing housewives:

>They sleep late(possible getting up for a short time to send the kids off
>to school). Go out for late breakfast or early lunch with the neighbors to
>gab. Back for the afternoon soaps. And then of course the late afternoon
>phone sessions. Now these people don't believe in cooking because their
>husbands can afford to take them out and therefore insist upon it. They
>send the laundary to the cleaners. Dishes get thrown into the washer.
>Cleaning is a mutual job done on weekends. Work around the house is done
>by the man. They lead a typical life of leisure. A sap if you may. They
>milk their good fortune for all its worth. Its enough to make me look 
>real hard before ever considering marriage. So, when someone says they 
>are a housewife, I'm not surprised its looked upon as a putdown. I know

Where in the world did such a bizarre view of housewives come from?  The
above description is not anything close to the typical housewife in my
experience.  I know many women who are housewives and are happy, are
energetic, pursue art, and make productive use of their time.  Being a
housewife is a perfectly acceptable lifestyle.

It seems to me that the original poster was referring to a particular woman,
not all women. I don't think it's fair to condemn a whole group of people
because of feelings towards one person (if that is the case here).

Chuck Bowden