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Laeserin | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah. Caring for dependents and keeping house is basically seen as "doing nothing".

And then they lecture us all that we need to increase the birth rate and it's like, make up your mind.
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Daniel Wigton | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Well, I think the "doing nothing" mindset is a bit more European. In the U.S. SAHMs are suspected of internalized oppression by one half and idealized by the other. SAHDs are just kind of beta.
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Laeserin | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I wish someone would oppress or idolize me. 😂 I'm just doing nothing.

Unfortunately, if I stop doing that nothing, everything slowly falls apart.
It's complicated.