Comments on: Ficci Frames 2008

By: gargi

gargi — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:52:01 +0000

from the mouth of babes…:)
running a house is so much work that i think i escape to office
a lot of women (superwomen) end up doing both effectively. i feel terribly inadequate when i see them…:)

By: sowmya

sowmya — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:31:59 +0000

Yesterday my friends daughter who is all of 5 years old asked me

“Sowmya, do you work outside of the house?”
“No, I don’t”, I said.
“But you shovel snow, which is outside of the house”
“Yes I do”
“So you work inside and outside of the house. You are good”

She is probably trying to reconcile with the fact that her mom is now working at a local children’s hospital, by concluding that I also work inside and outside the house. So in her mind, she probably thinks, all moms work inside and outside the house. I don’t know, but I think it is on those lines.

But that is the best validation I have got in recent times for working around the house.

By: gargi

gargi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:41:02 +0000

Hi Sowmya
honestly don’t know…

By: gargi

gargi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:40:22 +0000

it was a man who said it… a guy who is supposed to undersatnd media and audiences. And, if this is his take on women who run households .. then it is not surprising that the media is in the state that it is..

i see my friends who run households and I marvel at their saintliness

By: Nita

Nita — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:24:10 +0000

Interesting feedback on the meet. This is what I miss since I became a “nonworking housewife.” I just hope it was a man who said that though, because it’s irritating when women do. The hardest I have ever worked is at home, at the office there were coffee breaks, chats with colleagues, lot of meetings with new people. At home, it’s just work, work and work…and ofcourse blogging!