lol. mikal, since yer from Green Bay, I'm gonna cut you a little slack and not hang you up by your toes.
But honestly, if there's one button that when pushed gets me going...it's the "women should stay in the kitchen" one. Rather than go off on a diatribe on women's rights and all that, I'll just put my thoughts for me, myself, and I out there.
I'm single. I'm very independent. I like working. I love travelling.
If I ever do get married, the lucky guy (
) will have to be willing to uproot and move about as much as I. At the moment, I'm not real keen on the idea of being a mother. BUT, if me and my partner chose to have children, not only would it be a mutual decision, but it would be a mutual thing in the raising of them. In my opinion, it takes two to make a baby...and if possible, two ought to raise it. Ergo, if it takes both of us working different shifts so I can be home odd days and he can be home even days...then that's what we'd do. If his job pays less than mine, then maybe he'd stay home. If mine paid less, then perhaps I would. My point being...there will not be this automatic assumption of "you are the woman...therefore
you will be the one to stay home." I won't stand for that.
I do think that having parents raise their own children is the ideal situation. And I don't say that out of ignorance of the 'real world' or out of trying to impose my values on anyone else. (Believe me, I have many friends who have had to raise their children alone, and I know how hard the choices they face are.) Just for me personally, I think I'd rather my child's formative years be spent in the bosum of a loving, nurturing home, not in a daycare facility.
So there you go.
My long diatribe. Make any sense?
-sula
besides...in my house, my dad is just as good of a cook as my mom.