Yes, exactly. When you refuse to do work, it doesn’t get done. What a concept? What do you do when you’re single? Wallow in your own filth, as **Chuck ** said? Like the thread not too long ago, about single men? (I hope **Frank ** made it out of his mess.)
The only way I can see this attitude even remotely working is if you are the only breadwinner. Not the primary one, but the only one. And even then it behooves you to help with the children, cause you know, they’re your kids, too.
Bricker’s situation makes sense to me. She works way, way less than him, so that is sensible for her to do the lion’s share of the work. Speaking of which, if you keep up with it regularly then there’s not that much to do on a day-to-day basis.
Wow. I thought you couldn’t write anything dumber than the original post in this thread, and then you go and do. Showed me.
I’m a single guy, so I don’t have any choice in the matter. Both of the females I’ve cohabitated with in the past were absolutely awful housekeepers, so I didn’t have much choice then either. Do the work or live in squalor.
It’s just truly astounding in this day and age that there are still fetid backwaters of civilization that believe that more than one half of the population is chattel and leaves them to do most of the work. Thankfully here in modern western civilization, those beliefs are considered backwards and sexist. Where they are still pervasive, in some parts of the Middle East and Africa, etc., the practical result of this is that the women have to do everything while the men literally sit around and drink, get high, gamble, or just generally slack like college students with trust funds, occasionally going hunting, fishing or gathering or bartering. Nice system they got going there.
i’m not seeing this from a practical point of view, but more like an ideological point of view
political/ideological it have been political correct for the last 15-25 years that men shall do 50% of the house work. This is an idea that have it’s root from the 1970s and came from more or less extreme feminists
I’m only ascribing about a 15% probability to the possibility that you’re serious, but let’s play along. What’s the point of dividing household tasks by gender?
I agree with Bricker on this – I had to do my own laundry, disges, cooking, dishwashing, and housekeeping when I was single. When Pwepper Mill moved in, we split the chores.
Pepper Mill does more around-the-house stuff than I do, partly because she’s home more and partly because she thinks Outside stuff not related to the garden is Guy Stuff, but I stuilldo cleaning, dishwashing, etc.
I was really surprised to find that my mother feels the women inside/men outside classification of work should hold. It annoys her when I do the dishes at her house (except at holidays, when the whole extended family eats over)
Another request for your age, here. I’m also interested in your marital status (that means: are you single or married) and your educational level (that means: how far did you go in school?).
While I do realize there are people who still feel this way, I admit to being suprised that you are able to get your knuckles off the floor far enough to post on the 'net.
