- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
he bitches at me to not leave dishes all around the kitchen, but it's his problem if he doesn't like it
this is the crux of the matter: why can't men say that to women and not have any more problems than you do?
-- dick dworkin
But he does the same for me, and it's my problem that he leaves his robe and coat lying around the house.
But we are certainly not the typical couple.
It has to do, I think, with how women are raised. As long as women are raised to be neat-freaky, and more "in charge of the house," and are taught more cleaning skills than men, and see how their moms nag their dads and the techniques their moms use to get what they want, these archetypes will persist. Women AND men need to actively break out of these stupid modes of interaction and raise their kids right. That's what my boyfriend's mom did with him, and i can't thank her enough for raising him to pick up after himself and not have any aversion to housework or cooking, etc.
