I'm on a forced vacation.

I worked for one hour today and then I was laid-off. The supervisor was totally embarassed and apologetic about it, totally beyond his control.

I got a new assignment starting next Monday, but not getting paid for this week is going to hurt a lot.

I'm sorry, quester. That sucks.

totally stupid quester

I'm glad you have something lined up , even if it isn't going to be easy

I just hit up my fairy-college friend-godbrother who has lent me money in the past. But, I hate doing that. It's the holidays and he is flying to Finland to spend them with his parents. But, I can't hit my sister up again so soon, if at all.

I hate this!

Almost all of the India photos are up. There are some videos taking a while, and there's a card with the end of Mumbai, train ride and beginning of Jaipur that I can't find right now, but I hope to find it when I get home and put it up tomorrow. So...more India

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Rather than the 9-to-5 drudgery to which they have been "liberated" by modern ideology, countless women would prefer to be homemakers creating delectable baked goods and living lives of ease and contentment, while their husbands would happily be the family's sole breadwinners, gladly working so that their brides could have whatever they want, rejoicing in the knowledge that every day they would come home to find an angel in the house. In such traditional circumstances, children would receive all of the attention that they require, and as a result, sons would grow up to be responsible young men, while daughters would become ladylike and well-mannered. (How different from the broken homes of today, which lead to juvenile delinquency, drug use, crime, and promiscuity.)

::snort::

This isn't "the way it was", this is a blip in middle-class human history.

Before the modern conveniences that permitted this idyl, how do you think farms operated? How do you think merchants and factory workers and the like lived their daily lives? Those women weren't making "delectable goodies" they were providing all the food. From scratch. They weren't doting on their children, they were doing piece work inbetween churning and baking while the older nine kids watched the younger nine kids.

Idiots.

Apparently Segregation and McCarthyism escaped this person's notice.

Or they kinda like them.

There was some literal men dig Mars, chicks dig Venus in the other post I read, so they're not really that evolved as far as I ventured.

I was raised by a "homemaker" in one of those '50s families. She did, indeed, create delectable baked goods, as well cook every meal from scratch; make our clothes; make curtains and draperies; do all the cleaning; wash and iron clothes, sheets and my father's damn handkerchiefs; hung laundry out to dry (she didn't get a dryer until after my sister and I were out of diapers); and stand on a ladder pouring boiling water on a gutter ice dams when my father was out of town. She took him to the airport; she packed his suitcase; she packed and moved seven times for his job. When he became an abusive alcoholic, she refused to leave him because she had no job skills and knew he had paid child support for his daughter from his first marriage only because she sat him down with a checkbook every month.

A couple whom my dad knew from college also had that idyllic domestic situation. One daughter joined the Hare Krishnas and moved to India; one son committed suicide; and the other son finally pulled himself out of drug abuse to become an auto mechanic.

I hate the '50s.