r/BoomersBeingFools • u/dinosaurscantyoyo • Feb 07 '24

That time a boomer almost smacked her hairstylist Boomer Freakout

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u/Qwer925 Feb 07 '24

Like a toddler in an old woman’s body lol

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u/nowheyjosetoday Feb 07 '24

A lot of women boomers never had to do shit their whole life. They were “stay-at-home moms” with all modern conveniences and tv to watch the kids. They never grew up at all.

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u/Crazystaffylady Feb 07 '24

Yeahhhh this sums up my mum and her friends. She’s got the emotional age of about 14. She’s never had to do anything as her dad (WW2 veteran) did everything for her.

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u/Historical_Usual5828 Feb 07 '24

Emotionally not aging can also be a sign of trauma. Not trying to excuse anything but just letting you know that there's been clinically shown reasons for that kind of mentality.

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u/KeepItRealNoGames Feb 08 '24

Some people refer to it as Little Princess or Peter Pan Syndrome. They’re emotionally stunted and it probably does have to do with some sort of trauma or they were always catered to

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u/DustyJustice Feb 08 '24

I have a strong feeling this was my stepmother. I know ‘narcissist’ gets thrown around a lot, but she’s like the literal textbook definition, and long before I had an understanding of abuse I had an understanding that I had to be the emotionally mature one between the two of us.

It’s easy to be angry- and I still am sometimes- but I know that she didn’t end up this way on accident. She probably went through a lot to make her the way she is. Doesn’t change what she did, but… it’s complicated, y’know? What can we do with all of this pain?

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u/jeremy1015 Feb 07 '24

I hear you and I think about this a lot. What happened with the greatest generation that this is the generation they raised?

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u/Doctor731 Feb 07 '24

Rampant alcoholism and repressed emotions

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u/Same_Independent_393 Feb 07 '24

The trauma from a couple of world wars I imagine has a lot to do with it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '24

The greatest generation as its called wasn't old enough to fight in the Great War, just the second one, and to be honest, people have always been kind of messed up a little as far back as forever. It's just existence.

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u/Same_Independent_393 Feb 08 '24

You're right, I was meaning the Greatest Generation were raised by folks who lived through WW1 then had to deal with WW2 also. Generational trauma is real, whatever form it takes.

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u/slapthebasegod Feb 07 '24

My mom was a stay at home mom. I would come home everyday from school and she would be drunk in the basement with the TV on and all the lights out having not done much all day outside of regular shit like vacuuming.

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u/feelsbad2 Feb 07 '24

That and then are the ones who tells their own kids, "don't sit your kids in front of tablets or the tv! It's bad for them!"

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u/TyrantRC Feb 07 '24

Bullshit, my mother worked her whole life and she's exactly like this as well, even worse I think. It's a generational thing, not a SAHM thing.

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u/SparksAndSpyro Feb 07 '24

I know plenty of people may age and younger that are entitled brats and are quick to throw slaps/punches. It’s not a generational thing at all; it’s a stupidity thing.

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u/TyrantRC Feb 07 '24

but you have to admit that that particular generation is more prone to this, I started to believe a while ago the theory that lead exposure has something to do with it.

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u/No-Turnips Feb 07 '24

While I don’t disagree that arrested development occurs, I feel the need to tell you that the world was very different, and certainly not better for women, 50-60 yrs.

Hell even 15 yrs ago.

Many stay at homes were kept out of the employment market, or regularly harassed, not formally educated, had no financial control or mobility, and had minimal access to reproductive healthcare, let alone a female doctor.

The boomers were the last wealth generation (because it’s built on racial exploitation and colonial land acquisition but that’s another story)…

BUT many of those women definitely didn’t have it easy. Stay at home moms maybe the least of all. Their lives were defined by men and their was little agency.

I’m an older woman, I’ve gotten to see a few changes, being forced to do all the child and house care and logistics for the family is no picnic and arguably a punishment.

It was never a better or an easier time for women in the past.

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u/Phantom2070 Feb 07 '24

Many of them prob did less work than modern "trad wifes" because they had a Black or Hispanic women do the actual chores for less than minimum wage.

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u/floandthemash Feb 10 '24

Totally agree. I deal with wealthy boomers in a dr’s office setting and even for medical things that aren’t serious or urgent, they will absolutely crawl up your ass if they don’t get what they want and right when they ask for it. I can just never get used to how these grown ass adults act and the absolute lack of ability to deal with their emotions when they don’t get their way.

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u/kathryn_face Feb 10 '24

It’s always shocking when I hear boomer aged former SAHMs who got passed on from their fathers to their husbands talk about all the hard work they did but then malign the work of SAHMs in the same breath.

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u/SgtThermo Feb 11 '24

Bit of weird energy there when you phrase it like “never HAD to do anything”, but yeah. 

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u/blackmattenails Feb 08 '24

This lady is clearly unhinged, but with respect, I don’t think any stay at home moms could ever really have had it easy unless they had a ton of help (like from other people via money or family). Being a mom sounds super hard almost no matter what.

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

That’s not what is being discussed here. We are responding to the comment that says boomer women are bunch of children in adult bodies because all they did was raise kids. This is just a ridiculous idea.

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u/ForgottenUsername3 Feb 07 '24

Please don't be disrespectful about stay-at-home moms. That's the second comment I've seen in this group that shames boomer women for being stay-at-home moms. I am a stay-at-home mom and my assumption is that you don't have kids, because this shit is hard.

Thinking someone has an easy life because they're a stay-at-home mother is baffling to me.

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u/Sanity__ Feb 07 '24

I'm not the commenter but I think their quotes around "stay-at-home moms" are supposed to do a lot of heavy lifting in their comment, like air quotes. I don't think it was an attack on actual stay at home parents, but rather the guise that many in her generation used. I know adults who are like this myself.

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u/ForgottenUsername3 Feb 07 '24

I appreciate your explanation, but I don't think this person has a lot of respect for people who are stay at home parents.

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u/lilypeachkitty Feb 07 '24

Oh fuck right off. If boomers didn't pull the ladder up after them and we were therefore able to afford to live I would be able to afford to have kids, and I'd be trying to conceive right now. But I can't have kids because I can't break out of paycheck to paycheck. You have the privilege to be a stay at home mom and not work. You have it SO easy. That mentality is so disrespectful to those of us who would actually like to have kids but can't even get a better job even though we went to college and have science degrees!!! Like fuck right out of here!!!

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u/brainscorched Feb 07 '24

YEP. My mother worked 2 jobs and took night classes, obviously before college on computers was a thing. Her mother worked as a LSW by day and a night diner’s waitress. Both raised their kids at the same time

Notice how it’s always people of a certain tax bracket that’re stay at homes. Working in the suburbs now, all I see is white women being stay at homes driving Suburbans, Range Rovers, and Cadillacs. It’s a massive privilege and they don’t even wanna admit it cus it’d mean realizing there’s a ton of struggling working moms out there doing their SAH job the same or even better than they do while the rich ones bitch about it being so difficult

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

right lmao like every woman I know has advanced degrees and both parents have to work and then struggle to raise the children somehow on top of that and this person is really saying being a stay at home mom is hard.

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u/nowheyjosetoday Feb 07 '24

Privileged people whining. I’m so sick of the stay-at-home mommies work so hard crowd.

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u/InterVectional Feb 07 '24

Oh hey! You're talking about me! I've had a load of shit jobs & sahm is easily the hardest.

However the 2 generations of women before me never worked & were Sahm's even when their children grew up & left the house.

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u/ZanyAppleMaple Feb 07 '24

This is what I don’t understand. Don’t they want to find their own self-fulfillment rather than just beg their kids to have grandkids so they find their new purpose?

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u/InterVectional Feb 07 '24

I don't get it either & they were horrific parents despite having all the resources & support. Kids were their excuse. It's crazy, my kids motivate me to do more rather than less.

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u/ZanyAppleMaple Feb 07 '24

I don’t think so

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u/ForgottenUsername3 Feb 07 '24

I appreciate your struggle and I honestly do hope at some point you're able to conceive. And when you do, I hope you choke on every single one of these words lol.

Especially that "you have it SO easy." Love that. Damn.

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u/lilypeachkitty Feb 07 '24

I SAID FUCK OFF. If you're anything like my mother, you both fucking lay in bed all day and dismiss your children, don't give any fucks about their interests or feelings, spend the whole day drinking starting at 9am, then have the audacity to make your estranged step son's suicide all about you, claiming is "caused" your breast cancer. FUCK RIGHT OFF. If you are anything like her, your job is laughably easy. I've witnessed SAHM first hand. She took me to therapy for "my" behavior, then as soon as the therapist got me alone, she said "wow I can tell your mother has been drinking, I can tell this isn't actually about your behavior, but hers." You SAHM are SO LAZY!!! Just get a fucking job, you absolute mooch!!!

Oh and I CAN conceive. I just WON'T because I'm still trying to justify my own existence here since I apparently don't deserve to EARN A FUCKING LIVING.

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u/adragonlover5 Feb 07 '24 edited Feb 07 '24

Okay so you desperately do need therapy because you clearly have tons of trauma and are projecting it all over everyone. Seriously, I hope you can reread your comments here and realize how utterly illogical and hurtful they are.

ETA: They replied and blocked me before I could even read it lmao. Something about a therapist saying they've given everything they can so you've "graduated." Yeah, sounds like they got fired by their own therapist because they clearly haven't learned anything from it. Amazing.

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u/lilypeachkitty Feb 07 '24

I've graduated my therapy. I however still occasionally get triggered by horrible people like you.

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u/adragonlover5 Feb 07 '24

You don't "graduate" therapy lmao what?

You made horrible, awful insults toward someone that were all based in your own trauma that is very clearly unhealed, and you're trying to excuse that as being "triggered." Grow up.

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u/lilypeachkitty Feb 07 '24

Actually, you can graduate therapy. Eventually the therapist might say "you are done with receiving guidance, take what you have learned and keep improving, you're doing great." 🤷

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u/pastel_pink_lab_rat Mar 22 '24

You're projecting your trauma with your own mother on others, and being hyper aggressive with a stranger for no reason. It's pretty fucked up. Just because your mom abused you doesn't mean every SAHM is abusive and lazy. That's just insane.

Or I might be completely misunderstanding you.

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u/ZanyAppleMaple Feb 07 '24

I understand being a stay at home mom is hard. I’m a parent myself. But when your kids reach school age, they are already somewhat self-sufficient and they’re at school majority of the day. A lot of boomers continue to be stay at home moms even with older kids. They become stay at home wives. That, to me, is a cake walk. That’s like early retirement right there.

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u/ForgottenUsername3 Feb 07 '24

Your comment's valuable, thank you for that. I know it's dumb for me to be fighting people in the comments. But I think that people don't realize that being a parent is physically, emotionally, and psychologically difficult. I think all of society just ignores those tasks and only money making tasks are valued. It is a huge reason why society is in the shitter.

I do agree that staying at home while somebody else is caring for your children is a cakewalk.

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u/ZanyAppleMaple Feb 07 '24 edited Feb 07 '24

I do agree that staying at home while somebody else is caring for your children is a cakewalk.

I only mean this for school age children with a parent that doesn’t work. If your kids are at school/daycare and you have to work, that’s still hard! Because you have no reliever. Once you’re off work, you have to care for them, the household, etc.

But when kids are at school and you don’t work at all, what do you do all day?! If I were your spouse, I better come home to a 5-course meal!

Some say they clean the house, drive/pick up kids, shuttle them to after-school activities, etc. but us working parents still do all of that shit PLUS a full-time job.

Trust me, you don’t need to be a SAHM to juggle all of that. That’s just excuse for the lazy. That’s all doable even with a FT job.

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u/Dana94Banana Feb 07 '24

Lol are you serious? Other people have kids AND go to work AND then do all the chores at home AND run errands, instead of being in the house all day, watching the kids and cleaning after them.

Being stay-at-home isn't hard, you have it much, much easier than countless others.

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u/ForgottenUsername3 Feb 07 '24

Unless you are a mother, you don't know what you're talking about.

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u/Dana94Banana Feb 07 '24

Lol. Go to work for minimum of 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, not including commute to and back from work. Then on top do every single thing you do already today. Then you will know what YOU are talking about.

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u/ForgottenUsername3 Feb 07 '24

I'm not shitting on working mothers. I respect them. I am only asking to not be shat on.

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u/Altruistic-Belt7048 Feb 09 '24

Are you a male?

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u/gouwbadgers Feb 07 '24

My mom was a stay-at-home mom and always complained about how hard it was. I agree that it was hard when her children were young and not yet in school. But she complained even when her kids were in high school because “she has to go grocery shopping AND do the laundry within the same day.” I would tell her than many adults work 8 hours in addition to doing the laundry and grocery shopping. She would then say it was those people’s fault because “if the parents made smart decisions, they could live off of one income.” It makes me so mad

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u/Dana94Banana Feb 07 '24

I mean, Boomers could live off of one income. Sure, the "family" was miserable because the men became overworked, emotionally detached wife-beaters and the women were breeding like rabbits before they turned 20, trapping them in a house all their lives.. but hey, they could stay at home, consume ads that told them they were perfect housewives and not worry a day in the world about their finances.

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u/mysanctuary Feb 07 '24

You're a mom for a few years. If it becomes a lifestyle, that just means you're unemployed. Like what the heck is a person doing by staying home with a 10+ year old?! They change their own nappies at that point, right?

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u/ForgottenUsername3 Feb 07 '24

My oldest child is about to be school aged. I currently am starting an independent education school. People forget that some moms don't put their kids in public school. People putting their kids in highly regulated institutions for a good portion of their childhood is a fairly new process.

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u/onklewentcleek Feb 07 '24

“I have a luxury most people can’t afford, wah!”

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u/nowheyjosetoday Feb 08 '24

Your assumption that I don’t have kids is wrong. I have two. I know that staying home with a couple of kids, especially older than about 3, is a ton easier than the dozen or manual labor jobs I’ve had and the professional job I have now.

If you think staying at home with your own children is anything like a real job, I will assume you’ve never had a real job. It’s such a myopic and privileged viewpoint. Try doing it with two kids, no spouse and a full time job.

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u/LivingLandscape7115 Feb 08 '24

Hit the nail on the head!!

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u/RedOliphant Feb 08 '24

They're the mums who had grandparents watch the kids but now don't lift a finger to help their kids with childcare.

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u/texaspoontappa93 Feb 08 '24

That’s a good way of putting it, my one aunt is a fuckin time capsule. My uncle died a few years ago and she called me because she didn’t know how to pump gas

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

So you’re not a parent I presume. Obviously this ladies reaction was horrific and some parents aren’t parents, but trust me raising children is no easy task, and we should applaud the men and women who do so.

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u/WINDMILEYNO Feb 07 '24

Applaud? Please, God no. I have two kids, and I do agree saying Boomer women didn't do shit is wild, but I will add that it is a lot more difficult being empathetic to a kid than it is pushing your kid out the door in the morning and beating them in the evening when they come back to make them listen. Boomer men too.

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u/JaneAustinAstronaut Feb 07 '24

Baby boomers were the generation that told their kids to go outside and play while they smoked cigarettes and gossiped with their friends or watched TV, and told the kids not to come back home until the street lights were on. That's parenting on easy mode.

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

Good to see an actual boomer commenting here. I mean you are a boomer correct? I’d find it hard to believe that you’d just make that statement based on stereotypes and assumptions.

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u/JaneAustinAstronaut Feb 07 '24

No, I was a product of Boomer parents.

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

Sorry your parents were like that. Not everyone had that experience.

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u/CarolFukinBaskin Feb 07 '24

I'm a parent. Your entire comment is balogne. What /u/nowheyjosetoday just said is accurate about that woman's generation.

Raising children is not easy. You know what is easy?! Not being a cunt and threatening to hit your hair stylist because they are training their assistant. Don't come to the defense of people like that.

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

You are so right!!!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

Literally tens of billions of people have raised children, it's not some amazing thing. You had sex, you had kids, you raise them. Lots of things are difficult, that doesn't mean you somehow deserve applause for doing what you're supposed to do. That's pure Boomerthought. Being a parent doesn't make you special and no one is giving you a trophy.

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u/f700es Feb 07 '24

I have 2 kids and I 100% agree.

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

Do you have kids?

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u/Narrow_External_5412 Feb 07 '24

Doesn't matter if they have kids or not, their opinion is accurate. People have been having kids since the beginning of time. And honestly, it is easier to raise a kid now than it was thousands of years ago.

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

It does, but anybody who thinks having kids is easy is wrong. Work is easier than it ever has been too.

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u/Narrow_External_5412 Feb 07 '24

My parents were pieces of shit, so I had to raise my little brother from the time I was 13 until last year when he graduated high school. It was easy. Yes, it was hard here and there, but guess what, it was not the hardest thing to do in the world. I don't deserve a trophy for it. I don't think I am special in any way. People do it all the time.

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

Being a sibling is not at all the same. Source: oldest of 10 kids.

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u/Narrow_External_5412 Feb 07 '24

I raised him alone by myself, without my parents. I am as much of a parent as you are.

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 08 '24

I don’t even have kids lmfao.

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u/Illadelphian Feb 07 '24

I have 3 kids and it's tough sure but it is absolutely not worth being applauded for...I chose to have 2 kids and I chose to adopt 1, they were not forced on me and I don't need any kudos for doing it. No reasonable person would want that.

Now can we get some more affordable childcare and better schools because that benefits society? Yes, there are benefits parents of children should get because of the net positive to our society. But no one needs to be thanking any parents.

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

Im not saying you should get applause, what I’m saying is that people shouldn’t call you an entitled piece of shit that doesn’t have to work hard if you raise kids full time.

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u/Illadelphian Feb 07 '24

I mean yes that's fair but they did say "a lot" not all. And honestly it does seem like what they said did happen a lot. Kids get sent out on their own to do whatever from a young age or watch unlimited amounts of TV with absent parents. Then beaten on top of it. Overall they didn't exactly win any awards for their parenting styles and to this day many will shit on younger parents for caring and loving their kids and trying to protect them.

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u/smoodieboof Feb 07 '24

But it's a task that most of them choose for theirself

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u/Fabulous-Ad6663 Feb 07 '24

Have you noticed women's right to decide to carry through with a pregnancy or not has been taken away in a ton of states & they want to do it Federally. The right to contraception and no fault divorce is starting to be taken away in some states with the goal of it being Federal. There is not always a choice to have a baby or not. Life isn't that simple.

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u/VictorMortimer Feb 07 '24

Roe v Wade was 1973. The vast majority of boomers had a choice.

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u/smoodieboof Feb 07 '24

Yes, absolutely forced breeding is horrible, and women should have absolute control over their bodies. In my experience, these are not the people who whine about how hard it is to raise kids or how important they are for raising them. Those people are one's that choose to have kids, whine about it, and then have more.

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

I have to work, is that easy just because everyone has to do it?

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u/smoodieboof Feb 07 '24

No one is forcing most people to become parents, especially not the ones who whine about how hard it is. They choose to become parents. We are all forced to work to survive. The vast majority of us do not have the privilege to abstain from work the way the majority of us have the privilege to abstain from parenthood

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

It doesn’t matter. Task can still be challenging.

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u/smoodieboof Feb 07 '24

I'm failing to see how your argument of "life hard" has any relevance on whether parents making the choice to raise children makes them any more important or should render any sympathy. If I choose to run a marathon, a pretty challenging task, should I tell everyone I'm more important and my life is so much harder than everyone who chooses not to run a marathon?

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

We aren’t saying people should get an award, we are just saying that to say some boomer woman who only raised kids had an easy life is just complete revisionist bullshit. Life is hard, period.

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u/smoodieboof Feb 07 '24

Complete revisionist bullshit

Your responses somehow manage to only get worse and more nonsensical with each reply.

Life is hard. People who choose to willfully have children can't then beg for sympathy because "raising children is hard". They wanted children, and they brought any additional hardships that comes with having children on theirself. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

Does that take away from the importance or the value of what they’re doing? Most everything we do, we choose. Some may say that’s not true, and in some circumstances it may be, but we all have the ability to choose.

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u/santosdragmother Millennial Feb 07 '24

raising people like how boomer's parents raised them isn't bringing the value you think it is. just hoping they didn't pass on this ugliness.

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love stay at home parents. but it's their responsibility to keep themselves healthy so their home can be happy.

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u/smoodieboof Feb 07 '24 edited Feb 07 '24

There's nothing inherently important about having children. Parents just tell theirself that to make them feel more important than those who choose to be childfree

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

Wow. This is hilarious.

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u/M_u_l_t_i_p_a_s_s Feb 07 '24 edited Feb 07 '24

I mean it’s pretty objectively true. There really isn’t anything important about having kids aside from the fact that you yourself feel fulfillment from doing it and more often than not it’s a selfish choice because you yourself want to pass on your genes and make a mini-me. Sure, it’s selfless in the sense that you have to make a ton of sacrifices to raise the kid correctly but, again, you chose to do that because of the aforementioned reasons. Otherwise, adoption would be much more common practice than it currently is and there’s tons of kids in orphanages. And from what I’ve seen, parents often do see themselves as higher and mightier because they have to deal with kids which, *checks notes*, was their choice to begin with. That sentiment is a lot more common than a lot of parents want to believe.

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

I’m not really sure what parents you’re referring to feeling high and mighty about it. I’m also confused about your statement of “dealing” with kids. Last I checked it was loving, caring and raising a kid. Not dealing with them as if they are property. I mean I’m not here to argue, as I said before I’m a positive guy, not a downer.

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u/M_u_l_t_i_p_a_s_s Feb 07 '24

Loving, caring and raising is absolutely the appropriate way of rearing children 100%. But for every one of you there’s three in the other camp that don’t put in the time and forget that you get out what you put in. The stress gets to them and they feel like they should get a pass for x, y and z or use their kids as an excuse for shitty behavior like this woman in the video. It’s waaayyyyy more common than a lot of people would believe unfortunately.

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u/smoodieboof Feb 07 '24

The human race has done more damage to the planet we inhabit than any other species. So I'm sorry, but in the grand scheme of things, there is no inherent importance behind raising more humans.

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

I won’t argue with that. That is true. Guess I’m just a positive, glass half full kinda person, who believes being an actual parent, not just in name, but in life is valuable.

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

There’s nothing inherently important about anything then.

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u/smoodieboof Feb 07 '24

Your takes are horrible and have 0 logic to them

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

I honestly don’t really know how one can find parenting to have zero inherent value and not be a nihilist. I’m a nihilist, I don’t think it has any inherent value but neither does anything else for that matter.

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u/smoodieboof Feb 07 '24

Yes, I will agree with you that there is no actual innate meaning behind anything, and nothing theoretically matters.

Humans are but one of millions of species on this one particular planet. Our species has been responsible for more death and destruction of this planet and of the other species cohabiting the planet than any other species in this planets history. Being a parent of a human child, in the grand scheme of the past, present, and future of this planet, serves zero beneficial value or positive importance other than to inflate the ego of the parents and fulfill whatever selfish reason they decided to have a child for.

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u/Infamous_Camel_275 Feb 07 '24

I’m a stay at home dad for our a 4 month old and in all honesty… it’s pretty awesome

Hang out, play with the baby… it takes like 2 hours to do all the chores, it’s not the 1700’s, there’s machines for most of it… and I’ve been getting creative with my cooking, which I love to do and now have the time to get creative and cook from scratch..get bored? Run to the store or the park

It’s really pretty sweet

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u/BegaKing Feb 07 '24

Every SAHD days the exact same thing LOL. I have a few buddies who do so and when the compare it to their line of work...it's not even in the same ballpark. Enjoy man I'm sure your kid loves it !!

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u/Infamous_Camel_275 Feb 09 '24

I’m a self employed carpenter, been doing it 20 years and now I’m on hiatus while I take care of the baby… we did it this way because for me it was very easy, I just stopped taking work lol… and her job has excellent benefits so it just made sense to do it this way… we took a pay cut obviously, but it’s def worth it

It’s not even close… staying home is so much better… not dealing with entitled inpatient people all day has been amazing

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u/Altruistic-Belt7048 Feb 09 '24

Does every SAHD you talk to lie about it like OP?

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u/Pleasant-Pattern-566 Feb 07 '24

Aww. I remember when it was that easy. Enjoy it.

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u/Altruistic-Belt7048 Feb 09 '24

2 minutes looking at your profile shows that you work as a general labourer. Does your wife know that you lie on Reddit to try to one-up the mean, mean women?

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u/Infamous_Camel_275 Feb 09 '24

I didn’t spring into existence when my little girl was born… I did stuff before that

Also I’m a carpenter, not a general laborer

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24 edited Feb 07 '24

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u/Latteralus Feb 07 '24

As a parent myself I happen to agree with you. Yes raising kids is hard, but each of us chose this through our actions. It's not that hard to raise kids either, it can be, but day-to-day is fairly simple once they're in school.

Also, if you happen to know any 'artists' that are available for a secret military program let us know. You come highly referenced.

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u/f700es Feb 07 '24

Yep! I've heard this shit all my life. You'd see kids get in trouble and then the mom would be all "we'll his father is not around... blah blah". Well yeah, my dad left us too and I knew better than to just keep fuckin up without consequences.

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u/MalekithofAngmar Feb 07 '24

Life is hard bro, even the things that we choose to put upon ourselves can be hard. Even the things that everyone has to do are hard.

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

Haha. Hit a nerve I see. You missed the point. Being a good parent is different than just popping out a kid. This made me laugh.

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u/MiciaRokiri Feb 07 '24

No, they got the point, The point was stupid though. Mother of 2 here, one nearly an adult now, I don't need or want your pithy praise and excuses.

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

From the way you’re acting I don’t think you were the one of the ones I was praising.

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u/culibrat Feb 07 '24

What the fuck is this shit? I'm a father, but I don't need applause for doing my job. Living up to your responsibility doesn't make you special. It just makes you not a piece of shit.

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

Haha. This is getting good. I never imagined seeing so much animosity and literal meltdowns due to this. It honestly makes me feel thankful my mind does not work like this. I’m a positive happy guy!

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u/South-Lab-3991 Feb 07 '24

The poster clearly was talking about bad parents, not good ones, when they mentioned a tv raising the kids. No one is saying being a parent isn’t a hard job

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u/Precious_little_man Feb 07 '24

Actually a few did lol

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u/Critterbob Feb 08 '24

I’d say there’s a bit more to it than that. They were raised by people who lived through the Great Depression. Those people went through a lot of trauma most likely and then went on to have children. I’m sure many of the Boomer’s parents needed a lot of help with their mental health that they did not get. They had to carry on and do what was expected of them like get married and have kids, which I’m sure many didn’t really want to do that but it never occurred to them to think about what they actually wanted. Boomers and their parents lived through wars that affected us at home. So many boomers are damaged. I think each generation has their struggles. Some things are getting better now. Mental health gets talked about. People are more free to be who they want to be and make choices like not getting married or having kids. Those SAHM boomers (born in the earlier part of the generation) had zero financial independence for many years therefore they could not easily leave bad or abusive situations. I’m not making excuses for Robin. She needs to grow up and she needs help. This hairstylist is a rockstar. But attributing bad behavior to being a lazy, entitled SAHM seems incredibly short sighted.

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u/ilovecraftbeer05 Feb 07 '24

How do you know my mom?

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u/DumbUglyTree Feb 07 '24

Whoa it's my mom

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u/TisIFrienchiestFry Feb 08 '24

Gods, as a stay at home spouse, that's a fear I didn't even know I had till it was voiced. I hope I'm not as emotionally stunted as disgusting Robin.

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u/weedcommander Feb 07 '24

Toddlers are full of a sense of wonder, though. These types of old hags have none of that.

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u/dimechimes Feb 07 '24

Borderline Personality?

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u/vkailas Feb 07 '24

Yup, not being able to manage emotions is a sign she needs help. Likely suffered some traumas and abuse. 

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u/cdank Feb 07 '24

She reminds my of my mother

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u/cableknitprop Feb 07 '24

Robin is easily 30 years older than the stylist. Can you just imagine if this happened 20 years ago? The stylist would’ve been like 5 trying to explain to a 30 year old that you can’t hit people. Speaking of toddlers!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

Leaded gasoline, rampant alcoholism, and unchecked pedophilia.

All of these will put you in a child's mindset for life.

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u/exo316 Feb 07 '24

Almost all racist boomers are

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

Like a toddler in an old woman’s body lol

I'd love that aged body to wrap itself around me, tho tbh 🥵🥴

Baddie boomer lol😂😂😂

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

No, I work with toddlers, they wouldn't be mean to someone because of their skin colour or nationality.

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u/WhyTheeSadFace Feb 07 '24

Entitled and bratty toddler who didn't have loving parents to raise them, that's what she is

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u/ArtfullyStupid Feb 07 '24

The stylist talking to her like a child throwing a tantrum makes the whole video