Juniper8

I laughed out loud at this. I stay at home with my kids, who are all now in school. My days start at 5am five days a week when I take my kids to swim practice before coming home, packing lunches, doing dishes, discussing current events with them and making sure everyone is appropriately dressed and packed for the day. Once they leave I immediately dive into my day which is not 6 hours of free time to watch TV, but rather a sprint to get multiple loads of laundry done, clean the house, run a variety of errands, some days volunteer at my kids school, keep the house decorated and presentable and then come home to prep dinner because from the time the kids get home from school until about 8:00 it’s off to numerous sports and activities before we come home to shower and eat a late dinner. There are many stay at home moms in our area and their days all look like mine. We are doing ALL of this, with minimal to no help from our husbands. Maybe you sat around watching TV when you raised your daughter but most stay at home moms aren’t able to spend their days that way. Shannon, by all accounts, has smart, engaged kids who participate in numerous activities and a beautiful, well-kept home where home cooked meals are eaten. That’s not the product of a mom who sits in front of the tv all day. No it’s not “difficult” and not a job but it’s still work. Rest assured, my husband knows the amount of effort that goes into my day and he couldn’t do what he does if I don’t do what I do. That’s the price of alimony.

This whole "omg behavior like this is why the world hates America" line of reasoning is ridiculous. The premise that Americans are classless, backwoods hillbillies that have no appreciation for culture, while the rest of the world is a band of sophisticates is laughable. God, Vicki Gunvalson has no intellectual curiosity! Terrible. That's almost as bad as those troglodytes in Iraq and Syria who indiscriminately behead innocents. Tamra Barney is so trashy and had no desire to go visit a temple in Bali. Horrible! But not quite as bad as the oh-so-cultured Europeans who en masse flash Heil Hitler salutes at black soccer players who play at their stadiums. I know it's so offensive that Shannon enjoyed kayaking in Bali, a pedestrian activity she could have enjoyed in the US. It's almost as bad as those intellectuals in the Middle East who don't let women drive, subscribe to honor killings and prohibit girls from going to school. Maybe one day Americans will catch up to the sophistication of the rest of the world. Woohooing and shrieking on vacation really is such a poor reflection of Americans. One intellectual deficiency away from the Liberians who deny the existence of Ebola.