Feminism

One of the more awkward issues I seem to have is when someone ask "what do you do". It feels kind of pitiful to say that I am a stay at home mom, but then I feel like I have nothing to be ashamed of because its quite an honourable thing. Then I feel ashamed of myself for feeling the need to justify it all. I find it really odd when someone introduces me to someone as a lawyer because that opens a whole other door of conversation that I don't care to go into.

So far I have taken to saying "right now I am a stay at home mom" and letting people assume. I actually get a kick out of people not knowing I have three degrees and talking to me like I am an idiot. I wait and then after they stick their foot in their mouth with some comment, I mention "well when I was in grad school" or "I had a professor in law school who said...". I love to watch them cringe.

What is it about our society that no matter how far women come, we are still seen as inferior or dumb if we stay at home with our kids? Isn't that part of the feminist movement? Having a choice? What's really interesting to me is that most of the women I know who are stay at home moms, all went to college and some beyond.

I am going to do a study or book or something on how many women stay home who have degrees or whatever. As soon as I figure out how to squeeze that in between all my other chores...