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Should we bring back House Wife of the year?

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    #62
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,864 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    riffmongous wrote: »
    There's a real bang of incel and bitter divorced 40 year old off this thread

    It's an opportunity for the misogynists to come out in the open and rant about women/transgender/gay people in the guise of "having a joke.' You can see the ones who are serious in their views as opposed to having a joke at the archiac competition.

    What was that saying - half joking, whole in earnest.


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    #63
    Dufflecoat Fanny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭Dufflecoat Fanny


    Ya great idea. it would drive all those blue haired meanies up the wall. The gender bots would push for a transvestite to win aswell it would be a circus.


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    #64
    grassylawn
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭grassylawn


    One family member working, affording a house and supporting their family in an undistinguished job.

    A few decades of technological advancement and correspionding productivity gains...

    Now two people working, struggling to afford a house, older and less energetic starting a family.

    Progress


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    #65
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users Posts: 12,414 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    grassylawn wrote: »
    One family member working, affording a house and supporting their family in an undistinguished job.

    A few decades of technological advancement and correspionding productivity gains...

    Now two people working, struggling to afford a house, older and less energetic starting a family.

    Progress

    Working twice the hours for half as much (relatively speaking).


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    #66
    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,969 ✭✭✭cena


    Pictures of the house wifes


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    #67
    grassylawn
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭grassylawn


    storker wrote: »
    After several months of working from home, there are times when I wonder if being a househusband would be more rewarding that sitting in an officer for 40 hours a week, and spending another 17 hours commuting.
    Both parents spending 50 hours plus a week out at work (including lunch and commutes) is a stupid thing to be the accepted norm.


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    #68
    COVID
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    didnt Mary Robinson effectively once say that houswives were letting the sisterhood down by not entering some sort of 9 to 5 career ?

    Wow, that's a quote I'd like to see.
    Have you got it?


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    #69
    grassylawn
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭grassylawn


    COVID wrote: »
    Wow, that's a quote I'd like to see.
    Have you got it?
    Dunno about MR, but it's a common attitude among women.


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    #70
    [Deleted User]
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    grassylawn wrote: »
    Dunno about MR, but it's a common attitude among women.

    And one that most will regret when life doesn't work out the way they think it will.

    Schools should have a homemaker studies class. Teach people how to play their part in facilitating balanced family life.

    Then they can have a Homemaker of the Year thing on the telly.


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    #71
    Edgware
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    JayZeus wrote: »
    And one that most will regret when life doesn't work out the way they think it will.

    Schools should have a homemaker studies class. Teach people how to play their part in facilitating balanced family life.

    Then they can have a Homemaker of the Year thing on the telly.

    The Sisterhood are great because they can get Eva or Rosita in from Brazil to do the housework for ****e money. No feminist equality there


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    #72
    grassylawn
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭grassylawn


    JayZeus wrote: »
    And one that most will regret when life doesn't work out the way they think it will.

    Schools should have a homemaker studies class. Teach people how to play their part in facilitating balanced family life.

    Then they can have a Homemaker of the Year thing on the telly.
    Home economics is still a subject, no?


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    #73
    [Deleted User]
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    grassylawn wrote: »
    Home economics is still a subject, no?

    Indeed. It should be mandatory for all leaving cert students. All.


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    #74
    Samsonsmasher
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    Absolutely. The majority of women raise kids are queens of their houses and kitchen take pride in keeping it clean and tidy and pretty and love cooking for their families. And they do this while working outside of the home. We should celebrate and award it


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    #75
    grassylawn
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭grassylawn


    Samsonsmasher wrote: »
    Absolutely. The majority of women raise kids are queens of their houses and kitchen take pride in keeping it clean and tidy and pretty and love cooking for their families. And they do this while working outside of the home. We should celebrate and award it
    I hate inflated praise of groups. It's not nice to present an unrealistic ideal as the norm. Assholes take it as applicable to themselves, regardless of whether it really does. Normal people who buy into it feel inadequate.

    I much prefer to spend my time looking after my kid than working in an office. If my wife working was an option I'd prefer that by a mile. But doing all the housework on top of it is too much - much more than a full time job. That's why women were right to break out of that role.

    But two people working fulltime isn't a good answer, and it is not fair that a lot of people cant afford to avoid it.


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    #76
    fluke
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    I'm all for it returning as Homeworker of the year - have to keep the Karen's, Roisin's and the Louise's at bay.


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    #77
    grassylawn
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭grassylawn


    fluke wrote: »
    I'm all for it returning as Homeworker of the year - have to keep the Karen's, Roisin's and the Louise's at bay.
    Are Roisin and Louise slang terms like Karen is?


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    #78
    freshpopcorn
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    grassylawn wrote: »
    Are Roisin and Louise slang terms like Karen is?

    Karen’s are just generally offended and a complainer.
    Louise and Roisin basically just hate heterosexual white men.


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    #79
    fluke
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Karen’s are just generally offended and a complainer.
    Louise and Roisin basically just hate heterosexual white men.

    In fairness I'm just reminded of Roisin Ingle, and both Louise O Neill and Mcsharry


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    grassylawn
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭grassylawn


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Karen’s are just generally offended and a complainer.
    Louise and Roisin basically just hate heterosexual white men.
    Is there an equivalent term for heterosexual men who hate heterosexual men?


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    #81
    freshpopcorn
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    grassylawn wrote: »
    Is there an equivalent term for heterosexual men who hate heterosexual men?

    A Eoghan also has a thing against words in ‘’Fairy-tail of New York’’.


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    #82
    touts
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    KungPao wrote: »
    Probably something similar on Channel 4 already though.

    On Channel 4 it would be Hotwife of the Year.


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    #83
    eviltwin
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    storker wrote: »
    After several months of working from home, there are times when I wonder if being a househusband would be more rewarding that sitting in an officer for 40 hours a week, and spending another 17 hours commuting.

    Why don’t you ? Or do it part time, best of both worlds then.

    It’s nice to be home but if you were home all the time with no independent income it would probably get a bit crap. I moan about my job as much as the next person but I’d never want to be financially dependent on another person.


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