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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The article would be better if there were a list of things that women don’t have to worry about.

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Cleaning the gutters? I mean, as long as she can call someone else to do it.

Otherwise, go ahead and list them.[/quote]

Never worry about the grass getting cut

Never has to discuss whether the tires need to be rotated

Never gives actors sound in the car a 2nd thought

Doesn’t know the vets name or even where they are

Never worry about lightbulbs

Never need to replace a light switch or ceiling fan

Don’t worry about the kids learning an instrument since he teaches them that

Don’t need to talk sorta (though I can but not to the level they care to)

Never edited a paper

Mousetraps

Never even need to understand how to trim a tree

Have no clue what indigenous plants are

Never split wood

Never started a fire

Don’t clean cars

Never grilled anything ever

No clue what days the trash goes to the curb

No idea how to get large trash pickups

Never made coffee

I could obviously learn or do all these but I don’t need to[/quote]

I think the takeaway should be that every family is different.  Clearly the list is extreme, however some people DO live this way.  I am one of them.   I also do almost everything on this list that some "women never have to think about".  My husband never grills, has no idea when to put out the garbage because I do it, never knows when the recycling needs to go out, doesn't cut the lawn, doesn't make coffee, knows nothing about our landscaping, I pressure wash the exterior of the house as high up as I can then one of my sons does the rest, I open the pool, etc.    There is such a clear imbalance in my life that I am a fool and am in the process of changing that because I am tired of living this way.  My husband takes no interest in our now almost grown children except for the boys, and I would bet he has no idea how old or what grade my youngest is in.   It's sad and unhealthy, but I am damn sure that there are women that don't live this this, so maybe everyone needs to just understand that  everyone is different.

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Then why make this a gender war? Any man with a wife that doesn’t do anything is equally screwed.[/quote]

NP.

I believe the list OP posted is attempting to create a “gender war.”[/quote]

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