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

230 replies

Proudnscary · 25/09/2011 11:23

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bickie · 26/09/2011 19:38

Well my poor husband is able to study - because I work. How's that for making the poor little man feel like a mouse.

Hairytoes · 26/09/2011 19:38

Hehe more fool you working mums.
My DHcame home from work and is cooking my dinner now. DS is washing up along the way, and me - well I'm sat on my arse with a nice chilled glass of white.
Oh and btw if any of you lot think you are paying my taxes and NI, think again, you'd have to be earning a hell of a chuffing lot MWAHAHAHA.

Proudnscary · 26/09/2011 19:49

Oh dear

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WilsonFrickett · 26/09/2011 19:58

I was a banker! Me!!! Meeeeeeeee! I win! I was a banker in a big blue bank that went tits up AND I put DS in a baby orphanage while it was doing it!

I winnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HeavyHeidi · 26/09/2011 20:07

but Wilson, did you also properly emasculate your DH? well did you??

bickie · 26/09/2011 20:13

And Wilson - what about your holidays - were they overseas and expensive - and the only reason you worked? Huh huh???

planetpotty · 26/09/2011 20:23

Thank god for this thread Grin.

The other one makes me :(

Day orphanages - classic!

WilsonFrickett · 26/09/2011 20:26

I did! I did! And we still go away once a year . On our own. Alright, I have to spend the entire time fluffing the DP, but that's a small price to pay for years of successful emasculation...

HeavyHeidi · 26/09/2011 20:41

woman! know your

Proudnscary · 26/09/2011 20:43
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Cathycomehome · 26/09/2011 20:48

Our PTA sometimes meets in the pub, and consists entirely of working parents. So to top off the fact the poor little mites have been abandoned in day orphanages/left home alone for HOURS (at least one) if over eleven, they then spend an hour and a half playing pool in the pub whilst their mothers (or father) drink wine plan events AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH!!!!

Francagoestohollywood · 26/09/2011 20:48

Oh dear Lord Wilson you are EVIL Shock

WilsonFrickett · 26/09/2011 21:20

Thank you, thank you.

I'd like to thank Mrs Babystealer, chairperson of Baby Orphanages Inc, without whom I couldn't have done it. My mother, of course, for having a job and showing me how to skew my priorities from an early age. Dame Lady Mrs Thatcher, for services to children everywhere. And of course my DH. Darling, put down the dishcloth, look, we've made it, aren't you a clever DP, aren't you?

gordyslovesheep · 26/09/2011 21:27

I often ask myself - 'Gordy' I say 'why did you have kids just to pay somebody else to raise them...'

'because I can' I amswer while caressing my lovely shoe and handbag collection ..'because I can'

bickie · 26/09/2011 21:28

You cackle? Well now you're just showing off.

Proudnscary · 26/09/2011 21:31

Wilson! Wilson! Can I just have a quick word. I'm from the Daily Mail. You look great on the red carpet tonight, what a beautiful mink coat. Can I just ask you, when did you realise you would rather chew your own arse off than actually look after your own children?

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bickie · 26/09/2011 21:39

Ask her if she knows her children's names - that would be a nice twist to the story.

Francagoestohollywood · 26/09/2011 21:52

Oh I bet she worked so much exactly to pay for that goergeous minx coat. How materialistic Sad

HeavyHeidi · 26/09/2011 21:59

and I'm sure sometimes the father has to take care of the kids while the mother is working, right? The horror. There was a story in Daily Fail..no wait, Guardian, about it.
www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/sep/19/dont-know-how-she-does-it

I quote: "Do high-flying supermums really get what they want by cheating their children, partners, colleagues and employers? people keep saying, "I don't know how she does it." We're asked to believe she does it by being a really super person. In fact, she does it by being a scumbag."

poor hubby is expected to take care of his offspring: "He's [the husband] trying to pursue a career of his own, but when junior falls down the stairs it's Dad who has to take him to hospital, since Mom's away on business yet again."

and we conclude with: "it's unwise to give women tough jobs because they're intrinsically unreliable."

It's in the paper so must be true.

AnnieLobeseder · 26/09/2011 22:02

Thanks for that link, Heidi, I've just watched loads of those. Very good!

AnnieLobeseder · 26/09/2011 22:07

That Gruniad article was a horror, but for once, the comments are sensible and slam the article as thoroughly as it deserves.

nenevomito · 26/09/2011 22:14

My DH tells me off for managing him :(

I then have to rethink and be more subtle in the ways that I get him to do most of the childcare and housework.

Its probably not the intended use for MS Project, but its very efficient.

WilsonFrickett · 26/09/2011 22:45

Thank you, thank you. I do look great, but I'm so lucky, my body just snapped back into shape. Really it's just good genes and the tummy tuck I had at the same time as the c-section and breastfeeding paying a wet nurse, soooooooo lovely, she's part of the package at the baby orphanage, and BF is so important doncha think.

I think I just always wanted, like, more? And DS, well he's learning so much about the poor oppressed mink farm workers of the world thro my charidee work. I think it's so important to broaden DCs horizons, don't you?

HeavyHeidi · 27/09/2011 06:39

But Wilson, you will miss out on all the precious moments! Would somebody think about the precious moments??

donthateme · 27/09/2011 06:45

Rofl this thread is like a breath of fresh air!!

Hey you lot just about to shove your sad- eyed babies onto the childcatcher bus to be taken to the day- orphanage- it gets even better. When they're big girls and boys like mine you can leave them home alone while you pootle off to work. Mine have been known to MAKE their own breakfast (gasp) and find their way to the bus stop. I do sometimes feel I'm letting the side down because they just WONT play truant, and conform to rhe stereotype of neglected latchkey kids. They keep getting high grades too. Whats a working woman to do?!