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Seriously?

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suchawimp · 20/07/2013 16:05

There are actual websites called things like Ladies Against Feminism and Raising Homemakers? And people read them! Lots of people apparently as Raising Homemakers has 20 thousand likes on Facebook.

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suchawimp · 20/07/2013 18:14

Sites like that seem to put a lot of pressure on women.

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nooka · 20/07/2013 17:52

I'm teaching both my children that looking after your home and family is a necessary part of life, and I hope giving them a few useful skills. So I suppose I am in some ways 'raising homemakers'. I just don't discriminate between my son and daughter, and I certainly have no intention of infantalising my dh (who does more than his fair share of homemaking in any case).

I have a dd with some quite 'butch' tendencies and my ds is currently an out and out brony. I am rather pleased that they both like pushing the stereotypes.

EATmum · 20/07/2013 17:50

Surely they can't be for real. Sigh

PearlyWhites · 20/07/2013 17:43

No tribpot I don't agree with that statement

Eyesunderarock · 20/07/2013 17:42

'Or are you confirming the popular idea that housewifery turns you into a slovenly, unkempt, aged and ragged woman?"'

I tend to find that working turns me into a slovenly, unkempt ragged woman, old before her time.

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suchawimp · 20/07/2013 17:36

"When you?re running errands, are you preaching that mothering children and keeping the home is an honorable profession, something worth getting dressed nicely for and tackling with a smile on your face because you know your labor is not in vain? Or are you confirming the popular idea that housewifery turns you into a slovenly, unkempt, aged and ragged woman?"

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TheFallenNinja · 20/07/2013 17:32

I'm certainly nobodies big child. These sites do frustrate me.

TheFallenNinja · 20/07/2013 17:31

I'm a homemaker and sahd. I work bloody hard for my family and still retain my own identity.

I'm proud of what I achieve.

tribpot · 20/07/2013 17:14

But presumably you don't agree with the statement your husband will always be your biggest and oldest child that requires the most adult supervision, PearlyWhites? It's appallingly sexist for one thing.

As has been said repeatedly on this board, the problem is not raising women - or indeed men - to see SAHP as a valid choice, it's raising them to see it as the only choice.

PearlyWhites · 20/07/2013 17:10

I am proud of being a homemaker and sahm.

Bunnylion · 20/07/2013 16:46

I've yet to see one of these types of websites/groups that are not based on religious ideology.

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suchawimp · 20/07/2013 16:32

Raising Homemakers has posts like Training the Undomestic Daughter, Raising Feminine Daughters and Raising Wives - plus the weekly link up of over a hundred blog pages. Just wow.

Got a strange fascination with the whole thing.

Then there is the blog Women Living Well with over 60 thousand likes on Facebook - Youtube videos about being a 50s wife, a stepford wife and teaching our daughters that homemaking has value.

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ImNotBloody14 · 20/07/2013 16:16

Its so sad isnt it?

I saw a post on fb. Few days ago that read ' your husband will always be your biggest and oldest child that requires the most adult supervision'

I could cry, i really could.