[The last in a silly list of reasons why women don't belong the workplace]
The reason many mothers work outside the home is to make ends meet. But if a woman develops the potential functions of her home and practices wise buying can greatly increase the finances of the home. Then in the book it showes a list of extra expenses cuased by the mother working outside the home: federal income tax, state income tax, social securtiy tax, tithe, transportation, meals, resaurant and carry-out meals (for lack of time to prepare one), extra clothes and cleaning, forfeited savings on thrift shopping, employee insurance, day care, and "I owe myself" expenses. It ended up that it either came out even or the family actually lost money
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That's the stupidest argument ever.
pianopassion, presumably you're still in your teens and living with your parents.
"federal income tax, state income tax, social securtiy tax, tithe, transportation, meals, resaurant and carry-out meals (for lack of time to prepare one), extra clothes and cleaning, forfeited savings on thrift shopping, employee insurance, day care, and "I owe myself" expenses."
Did anybody read the rest of that thread? Despite her belief that women shouldn't work outside the home, pianopassion later goes on to say that she'd prefer to be treated by a female doctor in order to maintain her modesty. So it's okay if other people sin (by your standards) as long as you benefit from it? I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning!
Sadly the half wit is half right. (talking about battlers with low to medium incomes, and the mother looking at part time work secretarial work or such things)
I call bullshit.
What a dumbass! As if there aren't those of us who both worked and found a way to save money (and even brown bagged to work).
No one is going to support your Stockholm syndrom ass, unless they are just as fundie as you, in which case say goodbye to all your freedoms inside and outside the time.
People can make a full-time job out of cooking, cleaning, teaching, and saing money for people outside of their families, and yet people seem to expect mothers to do all that and more gratis.
you've never bought groceries, done laundry, had your own transportation costs, had kids, or paid tax. What the fuck would you know about this, again?
<<< day care >>>
Then you're a bad baptist! Get'cher butt back in the marital chamber, take out that sinful diaphragm, and start cranking out babies!
Nothing in your argument shows that the woman is the one to stay at home. All the extra expenses are "cuased" by the father working outside the home too. Everything regarding child-care, except the breast-feeding, a father can do, just as well as a mother.
Besides, I can walk to work, I can wear whatever I want (as long as it's clean and whole) and when I make dinner at home I make more and save the left-over to bring to work as lunch.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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