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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 01:57 PM

    I slap her down, figuratively

    Yes, it is, the problem is the female definition of parity: "everything/everyone is exactly the way the woman wants it to be", after all she is right about everything so the only possible basis for a man to object to everything being her way is sexism.

    My fiancee is already trying to pull those power games on me. Thankfully, my age and experience and my vehemence against being treated like a tool by any woman (this one supposedly loves me..) means I don't let her get away with trying to pull those stunts. Maybe I'll start bugging her to change according to MY whims-- see how mush she likes that.

    I do pity young men, who have no clue what they get into with women and never have (who teaches this stuff to young men?). Women DO seem to love to enslave their men. No wonder the women couch ALL gender relations in terms of master and servant when most men prefer to see it as TWO EQUALS.

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