Talk:Mother-in-law

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[edit] disambiguation text

This page needed disambiguation. My logic in creating a link at the top instead of a disambiguation page is that reference to a plant by the name of Mother-in-law's tounge is of the form "ArticleTitle Blah" where just the article title would virtually never be used alone to reference to object under discussion. As per Wikipedia:Disambiguation, such a reference should not appear on this page. It could be argued that the link to mother-in-law languages should be disambiguated, but this seems to be connected with the idea that mothers-in-law are often regarded unpleasantly. The sentence probably does need to be better integrated into the article, but as this article is a stub this is, perhaps, to be expected. At any rate, it doesn't need to be disambiguated. This leaves only one other ambiguous use, so I have linked to it at the top and will shortly create a stub for it. --Zarvok | Talk 04:46, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] woman hitler

Although this is true (the anagram) I don't see how it's relevant?

It's actually an old joke that's been kicking around for decades, but we still might not want to include it in the article... AnonMoos 18:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other cultures

In other cultures (especially traditionally in Asia), the main "mother-in-law" problem is the husband's mother being given the power to order around her son's wife, and make her work hard and conform to family norms. The Japanese supposedly have a saying that "Western in-law problems are comedy, Japanaese in-law problems tragedy"... AnonMoos 18:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC)