I went to college a few miles a way and when I brought home my laundry the first week to use her machines (which I now realize would probably have become a sitcom grade event . . . ), my mother told me that I could leave them–as long as I didn’t expect her to stop and do them–because there really wasn’t a difference between laundry for five or six.
When I bought my wife the last round of machines, I got the monsters.
Then it turned out that my 1960s laundry room door can’t open and close with it sitting there. (we’ve since flipped it to the kitchen side of the frame).
I seriously doubt that there has ever been a truly full load in either. There’s a difference between how much clothes four kids go through in a snowy winter, and how much two college kids wear . . .
Laundry is the one kind of leverage empty-nester parents have to make sure that their young adults keep stopping by. Nobody wants those dorm washers with coin operation and impatient people throwing your wet clothes on top of the dryer.
I am not sure why this woman feels the need to put herself out there like that, and then for offense to be taken when criticism is doled out in short order.
I am not sure why Lifesite and other social conservatives spun this into an issue of society hating SAHMs. It’s not at all about that. I’d be equally irritated by a full-time career mom gloating about her long hours and productivity.
I’ve actually read how widowed, (and untimely dumped), men feel absolutely helpless because they’re wives did freakin’ everything for them. Bending traditional gender roles can have some very practical benefits.
Finally, I find it interesting that the Modesty Brigade isn’t pouncing on this woman for her scantily clad selfies. Maybe we get a free pass if we’re stay-at-home moms with, um, assets.
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), my mother told me that I could leave them–as long as I didn’t expect her to stop and do them–because there really wasn’t a difference between laundry for five or six.
