RANT ALERT! I just heard some people whinging on the train last night and they pissed me off.
Two guys talking shit like such:
“If I get married, whoever she is she won’t work, she’ll stay home.”
“Yeah, that’s a good idea. But I would need a higher salary. Hopefully no mortgage. I rent right now…”
Huh? He hasn’t even met his future wife and he already decided she won’t work. Well excuse me, sweet a$$hole. Your wife would have her own brain.
Did you know that mums who choose to go back to work actually help create jobs for other women who are childless, even the ones who judge the working mums? Shocked? Yeah? I’ve got more news.
Jobs are created for the other women who work at daycare centres, housemaids, hairdressers, takeaways, cafes, restaurants, magazines agencies, manicure salons, clothes shops, seamstresses and tailors… It’s an endless cycle.
My favorite fact of all is that jobs are also created for the childless wives of men who swear that mums shouldn’t work. Some of these men claim it’s fine for a woman to work, but as long as they don’t have children who are not yet school age, because – they claim – you are supposed to stay home with said children. So, what about him? He’s not at home?!? Oh wait, he’s a man, it’s not his job.
Next, the men who expect a woman to it at home and wait for the kids to come home after school. And do what while we wait? Clean? Cook? Are you crazy?
Then you have the men who claim women shouldn’t work at all and be pampered instead. Say what? Let her decide. If my husband declared that after we got married he would be one balls-less man right now. Who gave these men the right to dictate if I should work or not?
It’s my choice to work and no one is dead yet just because I returned to work. Could it have been different for my son if I had stay home with him? I mean, would it have cured his autism? Um, do people who think like that walk on water? No? Then no.
If it wasn’t for the millions of working mums, men, too, wouldn’t have jobs. Many businesses were started or are led by women.
Who would do your dry-cleaning? Who would pamper your wives at the beauty spa? Who would approve that fat loan for your business? Who would be answering your phone when you’re in that meeting with all the other men? Who would watch your kids when you are working late or when you want to go on a man date with your brother from another mother?
And that woman who made the suit you’re wearing, did you think of her?
Working mums are everywhere. We make life possible for many childless people and their pets!
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