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HockeyMom

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3. My Dad must have been a very unsual man in the 50s

Reply to Neoma (Original post)

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 08:02 PM

Mar 2012

especially as a "macho" longshoreman. He cooked. If wash need to be done, he did it. If he cooked dinner, Mom did the dishes. If Mom cooked, he did the dishes. If the floor was sticky and needed to be mopped, he mopped. It was pretty much whatever needed to be done was done by whoever was around or had the time to do it. It worked out to be about equal that way. My Mom also worked back in the 50s when I was little. Dad got home from work earlier than she did from her office, so he started to do things when he got home.

Well, Dad was a DEMOCRAT. Is that the difference?

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Forty years of feminism – but women still do most of the housework [View all] Neoma Mar 2012 OP

It is the same in the US but it has been improving. I used to teach a class at my home. One night appleannie1 Mar 2012 #1

The oldest Boomers found themselves new women but they were married to the same old men Warpy Mar 2012 #2

My Dad must have been a very unsual man in the 50s HockeyMom Mar 2012 #3

I was raised that way, too. I guess it's why I don't "get" a lot of stereotypes, particularly when MADem Mar 2012 #23

If women leave the housework to men Gman Mar 2012 #4

Yeah, because us stupid men don't know how to use a sponge snooper2 Mar 2012 #6

Well, then you've been trained well Gman Mar 2012 #7

"trained well" , I guess some PC folks would take offense to that... snooper2 Mar 2012 #8

My BIL is a very capable house husband. He LOVES to cook, kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #5

Come to think of it, mine is too. MADem Mar 2012 #25

I do dishes, laundry, and garbage, but I almost never vacuum. nt ZombieHorde Mar 2012 #9

I know there's the patriarchy thing, but could it also be because... Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #10

My dad and husband disprove that theory... Neoma Mar 2012 #11

They're great exceptions? nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #12

They both know how to work as a team. Neoma Mar 2012 #14

I think that's part of our problem in the U.S. - we don't work as teams Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #16

Being independent and going into isolation isn't entirely a bad thing. Neoma Mar 2012 #19

Americans live incredibly isolated lives already. Do they need a little MORE isolation? Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #26

Ah, well, I don't believe that isolation equate loneliness 100% of the time. Neoma Mar 2012 #28

I don't know if isolation could be good for human beings with human needs... Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #29

It depends on what you are talking about, Women leave the bathroom in a mess snooper2 Mar 2012 #13

I know why. Whisp Mar 2012 #15

Women use more stuff in the bathroom lol Not to mention that we use lots of paper Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #17

That's an interesting article. I think areas that don't get a cleaning Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #18

I can only speak for my own household. ZenLefty Mar 2012 #20

In my household, none of us do the housework.... MADem Mar 2012 #21

Can't use the "If you mess it up..." rule. Neoma Mar 2012 #22

Ha ha! MADem Mar 2012 #24

My standard of "clean" is about 1/4 of my wife's lumberjack_jeff Mar 2012 #27