Don't ya love....

How not to be credible

...getting advice from women who have never earned a cent of their own money?  In my world, to be credible, everyone has to earn his/her own keep.  Otherwise, be quiet and certainly don't give working women your opinion about anything, thank you.

B has an old friend from 45 years ago who chimes in every now and then, as she did on fb the other day, with an opinion about working and motherhood.  This is a woman who was raised by a rich doctor, married a rich lawyer, divorced him and got a hefty settlement and child support, and then married a rich real estate mogul who left her a few million when he died.

Of course, the millions weren't enough and predictably she took his son to court to get more.  Didn't work.  Nevermind, she still has oodles enough to live in a swanky condo in downtown Toronto.  So, hey, no one's getting out the pity pot for this perpetual lady of leisure.

The biggest laugh is to hear her go on about how liberated she is and what an example to feminism she represents.  As I always say, women are their own worst enemies -- and that applies to several, well-educated, non-working, Texas "Real Housewives of...." I have met in Houston.

They are basically camp followers, like the working women who followed the railway workers in series like 'Hell on Wheels', only richer.  

My advice to young women?  Don't take up a seat in an expensive institute of higher learning and then marry, only to pop out a couple of kids and sit on your gilded asses for the rest of time.  It's just not right.

p.s.  My rules also apply to female members of religions that discourage wives to work.  Having them at home, bearing as many children as they can, gives their husbands all the power and disenfranchises them financially.    Like these women:

Mormon wives, a good example.

As I said when I married the first time, "There is no way I am going to ask any man for $5 for a pair of nylons."

And I never have.