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29. I don't know if isolation could be good for human beings with human needs...

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 09:01 PM

Mar 2012

I know that it's shown to be unhealthy in every study on isolation. The studies show it, so I have to take it into consideration.

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

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

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

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

I know why. Whisp Mar 2012 #15

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