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Monday, March 10, 2008 12:00 AM

The sexual politics of household chores

One writer reenacts a day in the life of a 1950s housewife. Meanwhile, will doing the dishes get men laid?

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  • Monday, March 10, 2008 03:26 PM

    @ Brightstar, @ Laurel

    Brightstar: My fiancee is already trying to pull those power games on me.

    Ahahahahahaha.

    Sorry.

    Laurel: flowers or Godiva chocolate or dinner at a great restaurant would pull more weight with me.

    That's how much Laurel giving out some sex costs, I guess.

    In fact, the more I think about it, the more I feel this is the offensive part of the theory -- that men have all these sexual desires and needs, that women (having few or none of their own) simply decide to gratify or not, based on materialistic, self-serving standards. That's crap, and I'm sort of embarrassed that anybody still thinks this way.

    I agree with that completely.

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