Aussie Women Very Stressed

[Rii]

I am stressed right now smiles

You know, instead of eliminating punctuation and typing the word "smiles," you could actually put a period on the end of the sentence and make use of one of the 50 different emoticons you'll find when you hit "Preview Post."

I'd love to know which style guide frowns on omitting punctuation but endorses the use of emoticons.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

^Look at the date. Given the prevalent attitudes in America at the time, I'd go with it being real.

The date doesn't mean anything. It could still be photoshopped.

I don't think that thing is real.

Hmmm, even Snopes is a bit stumped on this one:

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp

It actually doesn't sound that far off from some of the old religious propaganda on women's submission in marraige (written in the 40s-50s) I was exposed to in my youth, so on my experience, if it is a fabrication, it is based off of something that quite possibly did exist.

Of course it is fake. You think any guy writing that would leave out a line about a blow job?

 

[Angela 0077]

My sister used to go on about how stressed she was and that she had to work to pay for the mortgage. However if she and her husband hadn't decided that they needed a four bedroom, three bathroom house with a rumpus room she wouldn't have needed to work as many hours as she did.

Australians have the biggest homes of any nation. The typical Australian home is 215 square metres, whereas the average British home is 76 square metres. The Danes have the largest homes in Europe but their average home is only 137 sq meters.

Most couples could afford to live if they accepted the same standard of living that people had the generation before them.

yes my brother bought a house which was worth 350,000 and they find it hard to pay it off with other bill on top of it.
They also have two cars which cost alot to pay
One of the cars was hail damaged by a recent storm they were lucky to have had the car insured so they were able to get a replacement but it was a newer model and worth quite alot of money.
Also my sister inlaw is trying to get pregnant by IVF and that is 10,000 a shot.
The first child was conceived this way and since she wants another one and she has had 3 attempts which have failed it has put stress on there selves but they want to go further into it.
I know my brother is very stressed knowing there are so many things to pay out including this
They have spoken about it but he wants to make his wife happy even though he is in a bad way.

 

[Angela 0077]

I am stressed right now smiles

You know, instead of eliminating punctuation and typing the word "smiles," you could actually put a period on the end of the sentence and make use of one of the 50 different emoticons you'll find when you hit "Preview Post."

Some of these might help:

Or instead she might just place a : followed by a ) and get a smiley face like this
and a : followed by a ( get a

Yes l have thought about using the smilies sometimes.
But using the word smile is alright too smiles

But thankyou for suggesting different ways for me to use the word smile.

 

[Hermiod]

yes my brother bought a house which was worth 350,000 and they find it hard to pay it off with other bill on top of it.
They also have two cars which cost alot to pay
One of the cars was hail damaged by a recent storm they were lucky to have had the car insured so they were able to get a replacement but it was a newer model and worth quite alot of money.
Also my sister inlaw is trying to get pregnant by IVF and that is 10,000 a shot.
The first child was conceived this way and since she wants another one and she has had 3 attempts which have failed it has put stress on there selves but they want to go further into it.
I know my brother is very stressed knowing there are so many things to pay out including this
They have spoken about it but he wants to make his wife happy even though he is in a bad way.

So, the long and short of this is this - your brother, who I assume is an Australian man, is suffering from stress due to his attempts to make his wife, an Australian woman, happy. How does he feel about spending $10,000 a shot on IVF treatments when money is tight ? Isn't it irresponsible to have another child when providing for it will be even tougher financially than paying to conceive it in the first place ?

We've now added a new reason why the article in the original post is dumb:

- 46% of Australian women reported being "very stressed" compared to 41%. I am not sure that a 5% difference makes it a woman's issue at all.

- 9% of Australian women reported having no stress at all compared to 11% of Australian men. Again, a 2% difference is not significant enough to make this a woman's issue.

- As myself, Robert Maxwell, Rii and others have pointed out, men are considerably less willing to admit to mental health problems, even stress. I'm pretty sure that if they're going to tell their wives, friends and family that they're okay, they're going to say the same thing to some stranger asking them to fill in a survey.

As nevermore has pointed out, it is not true that men do not contribute anything to domestic work. Yes, we do less of it, but we also work longer hours doing more stressful, more physically demanding and more dangerous jobs. It'd be interesting to see how the actual tasks involved are broken down.

The numbers nevermore gives are also likely to be skewed by those families where the woman prefers to assume the old fashioned role of the wife within a family . Nothing about equality in the workplace says that a woman isn't allowed to stay at home if she wants to.

Australia's paternity leave laws are more progressive than most, but employers still have the right to decline the father's right to a share of the 51 weeks unpaid parental leave. They cannot refuse a mother's.