For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 06, 2015

Why John Patterson, you chauvinist PIG! You don’t consider what Elle does around the house WORK?

The reality is that not only does Elly (or any wife with a part-time outside job) do a lot of work around the house to make sure food is on the table on time, clean clothes are available as needed, people don’t need to wade through dog hair, bugs don’t invade piles of debris left on the floors, and kids arrive where the need to be, but she has to juggle that around a work schedule. -So, yeah, John’s remark is an oink.

John never was the sharpest crayon in the box.

So you both work hard… can’t that just be acknowledged and both parties properly appreciated?

I think someone is about to get smacked on the back of the head.

I guess I’ll not try to defend John today…I caught enough grief for yesterday’s comment. I like this comic and understand Lynn to a degree, but occasionally someone has to come to John’s defense. I still stand by what I said yesterday…..attitude is everything.

OMG people! It’s a comic strip! Can’t you just have a chuckle over an obvious joke?

Having been both a stay at home Mom and a 9 to 5 wage earner, I can tell you that the position of Mom is much harder.

Oh yeah try being a housewife for a week and see if it’s not working John, you chauvinistic Pig!

You did it quite well!!!

John’s daily routine: Open mouth “A”, insert foot “B”. Repeat.

I don’t know how much longer I can read this comic – I was curious where the new line was going to go – apparently downhill. degrading women, or men for that matter, is not funny.

I doubt if she was a multimillionaire in the 1980’s…book royalties probably weren’t close to what they are now.

I have always considered a stay at home parent (mom or dad) more like being self employed, they don’t have a boss telling them what to do so they are considered to have a bit more freedom than being in the work place, however they still have to listen to their customers and take care of them. As such they often work as much as on the job or more.

only in this case the children are the customers and need to be taken care of, and you don’t get paid money you get paid later on in life by having responsible decent children.

As she tells the next appointments — “The doctor will see you after he gets his broken jaw fixed.”

I found out the hard way that unless the person assaulted presses charges, the assaulter does not go to jail. I can’t see John pressing charges, no matter how chauvinistic he was in those days.

OK Lynn. We get the point. How many times do you have to ram it down our throat?

I know this is intended as a joke, for a chuckle. Having been a homemaker for around 5 years as not to spend my income on daycare, I know my work was a lot more than my husband did at work. Homemaking IS work. And amazing that there are women who work AND go home to continue working at home. During John’s time, men go home only to sit around and relax as was expected of his gender. If Elly were working, she would still come home to cook dinner, watch the kids, clean up the kitchen, supervise kids’s baths and bedtimes. John? Nothing but watch TV and eat dinner.

I love it!! I always wonder if I’m the only one that thinks this way. And, I never am! I used to buy these comic books and others for my daughter to encourage her to read (and it did). She developed her love for reading around the 4th grade. Now a 3rd grade teacher!! I believe I read that this particular comic is similar to Lynn’s own life! I would be sorry for her if it were true. No wife who chooses to stay at home and raise her children deserves to hear these type of chauvinistic comments. Kudos to those who choose to or have to work outside the home and still raise their children.

Aaaannnd THAT’S when the fight started!

And THAT, Your Honor, is when I hit him!

I remember the original arc. Hated it back then and hate the recycled version…

This is it: the last of this strip I will ever read…. I can’t stand John. I really can’t. I really don’t like these characters enough to continue caring what happens to them on a daily basis.

Well John looks like you be sleeping over at Ted’s tonight.

She should have divorced him years ago…