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I would like a show of hands, both women and men:

How many husbands/boyfriends/fiances actually do real housework, like cooking dinner, washing dishes, doing laundry, vacuuming, mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms, etc?

Because mine sure does. Willingly. Really. In fact, he is a friggin' gourmet. He was accepted into the Culinary Institute of the Arts (but couldn't afford to go even with a huge scholarship). He cleans house better than I do, bitches.

There seems to be this myth going around that men don't know how to do these things, and leave it all up the women.

In fact, let me quote from a parenting magazine I leafed through in the doctor's waiting room on Friday: "Unicorns. Dragons. Bigfoot. A husband who, on any given Monday, cooks dinner and does the dishes, then puts the kids to bed while you read a magazine and relax.
If your first thought was 'No such husband exists,' you're correct. Neither do unicorns, dragons, or Bigfoot. They're myths, and obvious ones at that."

When I read that, I actually got angry. Extreme stereotyping sucks. Not all men watch football, either. Mine watches NASCAR.

Date: 2007-02-25 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madwriter.livejournal.com
*Raises hand* Though not as much as I used to, but that's because I've implemented the exercise plan (and, well, I'm still easily distracted by writing--and oblivious to dishes piling up). The only thing I haven't done in a long time is cleaning the bathroom, and I tend to sweep but not mop so much. (Though I made up for that with all the mopping I did in the basement after December's flooding.)

Unicorns. Dragons. Bigfoot. A parenting magazine with imagination...

Date: 2007-02-25 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brightrosefox.livejournal.com
Indeed! That particular article was about a bunch of parenting myths and truths.

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