Wait, what? You mean staying home to raise your kids because it would cost more for daycare than your salary isn’t contributing to your household?
ETA - and you see me at yoga on Thursday mornings because I work Thursday evenings.
I see yoga classes that I’d like to enroll in offered at 10:00 AM on weekdays. Good luck finding something on a weekend around here, though.
The other day I decided it might be cool to take intermediate swimming lessons. Don’t see it happening anytime soon, though. They are all offered on weekday mornings.
Obviously there’s someone able to attend these things. But man, is it annoying.
When I was a grad student with night classes and an odd-hours job, I was a ten AM jogger. It’d make me laugh how yuppie I must have looked- blonde 30 year old jogging through a gentrifying neighborhood in the middle of the day.
No, of course it is a contribution and a perfectly valid choice. But for some people, it can also be an alternative to the 9-5. Keep in mind that not every housewife has kids in the house.
I’m a full-time homemaker with no kids (unless the cat and the bird count). We’ve found by experience that general household functioning, being able to see each other on occasion, etc., works a lot better if I’m working part-time or simply home full-time. My husband assures me that in his opinion, I do my share for the common good around here. 
Yoga bitches have it too easy. Making them take Pilates would serve them right.
Because the former are likely not considering easy, potentially unlawful ways to make up the difference?
“Qualitatively” money buys stuff. Nobody is “willing” to live on any less than they have to. How they come by it is another question. Crime does pay - at least until you get caught. Long term planning is not a big factor when poverty is the primary motivator.
That’s a good reason to hang on the corner right there.
The other day I had a friend help me move some scaffold, it was sticking out the back of his van. As we passed the block, cries went up: Give me a job partner! One guy started following us down the road. Damn I wish I had the money to give someone a day’s work here and there.
You don’t need to apologize for being a lulu. I’d do it too – we’d all do it to – if we could swing it.
“lulu”?
Granted, we aren’t doing as well financially as materialistic MIL thinks we ought to be, but for the most part, we’re content with our standard of living, and while money’s certainly important, other things (such as having a reasonably peaceful and functioning home) are at least as much so.
Humble apologies for the duplicate post. I have no idea how that happened.
I thought that was rural whites?
So really what this thread proves is that people will look at other people they know nothing about, and just make up a bullshit story about how those other people are bad people compared with the good people as represented by the person making up the bullshit.
Yeah, I already knew that.
Young “inner city males:” shooting dice and fighting with straight razors
Hispanic males: sleeping while crouched under a saguaro cactus
White rural males: “He followed me home Pa. Can I fuck him!?”
Let’s keep these straight, people!
Yeah, looks can be be deceiving. The old can’t judge a book by its cover and all that, right?
Then there’s the one about “…looks like a duck…”. Correctly evaluating some things without all the facts sometimes takes a certain bit of reading between the lines. Demographic data and crime statistics help too.
Who says it’s correct, though? Have you never made an assumption that turned out to be wrong? People make wrong assumptions about me all the time. I’m skinny; people assume I’m a drug user. Because everyone except drug users is either fat or muscley, right? Anyone over 30 and scrawny is a junkie. Yeah, I’m sure you could use “demographic data and crime statistics” to support that argument, too.
I don’t believe correctness has been attributed in this case. The between the lines part has been discussed and evaluated to some extent.
So in your case, are you saying strangers approach you with offers to by illegal drugs, or what? I for example, often assume extremely thin women I see must be anorexic. I don’t offer to buy them a cheeseburger, it’s just something that goes through my mind in passing.
Yeah, must be nice to have the kind of time to post everything twice. Instead, I have a job.
Yes, drug dealers home in on me, when I’m in the bad part of town. Also cops. I’ve had people, quite a few over the years, who told me (after they’d got to know me) that they’d originally thought I must be a chronic drug user. That’s what happens when you’re teenager skinny long after your teens in a society where overweight is the new normal.
Which is my point: why assume the worst about people you really know nothing about them? Being on the street during working hours means nothing. You really can’t extrapolate anything useful from such a tiny amount of knowledge. Yet people believe that they really do know for sure that these “inner-city males” are up to no good.
(swat) 
Newsflash: People stereotype. Because there are certain “types.” Sure it’s not always accurate or correct. Welcome to the real world.
Let’s just say as a theoretical experiment, if it was possible to somehow quickly and accurately survey every single stoop-sitting young male found in all the run down bad neighborhoods across this country and properly determine their status according to type, be it employed/not, criminal record/not, out-of-wedlock children/not, etc.
What % would you guess applies to the OP’s stereotype, or not? 50/50? 60/40? 80/20?
Go ahead - take a guess.