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Whisp

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15. I know why.

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #13)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 04:42 PM

Mar 2012

back when I had a full time job and a kid to look after, come home to make dinner, do chores, ragged tired. flop, then all over again - always exhausted.

if I went to a public bathroom during those days the last thing on my mind would be to 'clean up' there too. I never made a deliberate mess but no way I was going to pick up there too! lol.

Husband does the bigger nastier stuff so it all sort of works out. I sure wouldn't want to get rid of a fallen tree in the yard, etc., search out that little mouse visitor, etc., the stuff that he does.

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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