I'm starting to see a lot of posts on social media "subtly" shaming women for working outside the home.

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34. Not sure exactly what you mean about semantics, but I do get the point.

Perhaps I didn't clearly state what I meant. I grew up evangelical and I know exactly the point--they want to control women. Period. Body, mind and soul! The man is the head of the house and he makes the choices for the family. That's how my father operated and I made sure I married someone who believed in working together to make decisions, not an autocracy. I loved staying home with my son. I stopped working because I wanted to, because I wanted to be the one that took care of him full-time--not because I was forced to stop. We were lucky and financially able to make that choice.
I grew up in a time when I couldn't have my own checking account or credit card until after I was in college. I grew up before no fault divorce. I knew lots of women that were either trapped in abusive marriages until they managed to find a way to escape, or women who were financially decimated when their cheating spouse left them. I did what I could to help them get reestablished. Even after winning more rights women today still don't make as much as men--even doing the same job. That's another way to keep women trapped. The evangelicals will never willingly give women freedom, we have to force them to do what is right.
My point still is that we as women should get to make our own choices. No person, male or female, should make our choices for us. We need to vote for the people who believe in freedom of choice for women. We also need to make sure the republicons don't take social security, medicare, and medicaid away so that women who do make the choice to stay at home can survive if they lose their spouse. Many people live paycheck to paycheck and aren't able to put away enough cushion or buy enough insurance to take care of their families if the main breadwinner dies. The right won't help them--"God helps them that help themselves." It's financial AND personal freedoms that are at stake. We cannot fail.