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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To think that working mums are the devil's spawn?

230 replies

Proudnscary · 25/09/2011 11:23

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huffythethreadslayer · 25/09/2011 11:42

I am a fat mum in leggings who reads the daily fail, works and feeds her child McDonalds. I'm a sad failure as a parent for sure. My poor child, despite my efforts, is somehow turning out to be clever and confident, but I'm sure that's just because her baby-churning nursery factory was a bit better than most of the baby-churning nursery factories that you can find out there. I am sobbing as I sit reflecting on my failure as a mother. He dad, on the other hand, has never once considered giving up work in exchange for caring duties. He is, though, the main breadwinner. I can't win as much bread as him so I bow to his natural superiority as a parent. I'm just off to polish my hooves and horns and put in my blue contacts so my red rimmed devil spawn eyeballs don't freak out the rabbits. How could your view be seen as unreasonable OP :(

HoneyPablo · 25/09/2011 11:43

I don't know who does the most damage, the working mothers who dump their offspring in baby farms all day or SAHMs who are scrounging. Possibly mothers on benefits- they really are to blame for all of society's problems and they should all be drug-tested.
I have come to the comclusion that it's mothers that are the cause of all our problems.
Hitler- blame his mother
Thatcher- blame her mother
Cameron- blame his mother
Simon Cowell- blame his mother
As a theory this really can't be disproved Grin

huffythethreadslayer · 25/09/2011 11:46

PS in real life I've been a WOHM, SAHM, Working in the home mum (is that a WIHM?) and I found all three delightful in different ways. My daughter suffered through none of it. Her best mate has 2 working parents and has always had a combination of nursery care and grandparental care. She's so bright and gorgeous it's untrue. Her other best friend had a SAHM and is equally balanced and lovely. I'm sorry...has no-one told you? There is no right way to bring up your baby/babies. You screw em up no matter what you do, unless you fall lucky and somehow manage to raise the perfect adult (laughs uproariously at the thought of such a smug goal) so you may as well do what's right for you.

StealthPolarBear · 25/09/2011 11:50

Don't get me started on mothers on benefits. They should shift their lazy fat bottoms and work. From home. At night. When their DCs are asleep.
They don't need sleep, or time to themselves.

BrandyAlexander · 25/09/2011 11:50
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BrandyAlexander · 25/09/2011 11:50
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Proudnscary · 25/09/2011 11:53

Honey - LOL hunni!!!!!!! LULZ LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Proudnscary · 25/09/2011 11:55

I hear that in day nurseries they... write down what the children do all day to show the parents

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 25/09/2011 11:56

YABVVVVU! For it is I ... the single working mother that is the spawn of the devil. Simultaneously do I manage not only to neglect my child by having the audacity to work for a living, own my own home, pay tax and never see them from one January to the next, but at the same time I am a blight on the moral rectitude of society in general, bringing down the whole tone of the place, up to my neck in benefit-financed Jimmy Choos and making it difficult to organise dinner-parties.

Red2011 · 25/09/2011 11:57

can we pick on student mums too? Skiving off to ponce about with a load of airheads whilst the kids are left in care with family or nursery. And when they are at home they don't pay any attention to the kids because they have 'home study' to do...

PsychoThreadKiller · 25/09/2011 11:57

If you record the voice of a working mother and play it backwards, you can hear the words, "Satan wants you to kill all the babies, Satan wants you to kill all the babies...". Fact.

norriscoleforpm · 25/09/2011 11:57

Our down the road neighbour has just had another baby I see no evidence of a father, but she has three other children, I think she's on benefits you know, but she's not quite fat enough to be scorned totally. However, the children have ridiculous names which sort of makes up for it.

Proudnscary · 25/09/2011 11:58

Cogito - fuck off to netmums you poor excuse of a 'mother'!!!!

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motherinferior · 25/09/2011 11:59

Lesbian mothers surely are the worst? Particularly lesbian mothers who are in relationships thus warping their children for life, depriving them of male role models, etc etc?

I not only work but have refused the repeated invitations of my (male) co-parent to marry him.

AlpinePony · 25/09/2011 12:00

Yanbu. They flounced around in their nice clothes tossing their shiny makes earning money to buy food, clothes, poniez and ski holidays. What a bunch of cunts, children need love, not regular mortgage payments. :(

HoneyPablo · 25/09/2011 12:02

More evidence for my theory-
I have been at some point in my life a
working mother
SAHM mother
student mother
benefit-claiming mother

I am to blame. The riots were my fault. But I refuse to take responsibility for Simon Cowell.

Proudnscary · 25/09/2011 12:02

Yes Alpine and working mothers know not how to love...I once tried to bond with my ds by Shock attempting a cuddle but accidentally stabbed him in the toe with my Laboutins.

Sad Sad Sad

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TheMonster · 25/09/2011 12:02
StealthPolarBear · 25/09/2011 12:03

Cogito, don't forget that you have taken a job that a poor, deprived man could be doing instead.One with a family to support, and self-esteem to maintain.
Can't you get yourself a husband to pay the bills while you stay home and look pretty?

StealthPolarBear · 25/09/2011 12:04

PMSL at "But I refuse to take responsibility for Simon Cowell." :o

DilysPrice · 25/09/2011 12:05

Cogito, does that mean you are both a Working Mother and a Benefit scrounger claimant?!

DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 25/09/2011 12:06

Good grief, these working mums will be demanding equal pay next. Could they get any worse?

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motherinferior · 25/09/2011 12:08

And anyway, Cogito, he would have done the job better because that's how mens' brains work, you know.

CogitoErgoSometimes · 25/09/2011 12:09

Depriving a man of a job is a truly terrible crime, you're right. And I have got myself a husband.... he's someone else's husband. Does that make it OK? Wink

StealthPolarBear · 25/09/2011 12:10

I'm sure if you just put in a bit of effort you could snag one of your very own. I bet you scrub up well.

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