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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Act 1
A happy family, one husband, one wife and three lovely children. Child A has a holiday performance on Thursday morning and needs to wear a “green Christmas sweater, blue jeans and white sneakers” per teacher instructions. Child 2 has Christmas caroling at the old people’s home on Friday and needs a red dress and plate of cookies. Child 3 is receiving an award for a speech on Friday also, and will be needing a birthday present for friend’s party that same afternoon. Wife takes care of all of these things noiselessly, on top of regular work. She also lets husband know where to be on performance and award day.
Act 2
Husband: shows up.
Act 3
Society: why do women complain about mental labor? It’s a fiction that only exists in their hysterical imaginations and they invent tasks to do because they are hysterical.

Curtain. [/quote]

All of these things being … picking out some clothing, getting some cookies and a birthday present? That … sounds … exhausting? Is that what my takeaway is here?

At any point was there some discussion in the family? “Larla, find a green shirt. Marla, get your read dress. Darla, pick out a present on Amazon. Honey, can you pick up some snickerdoodles on the way home?”[/quote]

I don’t think you actually have elementary schoolers.  Or that you are responsible for them anyway.  
The only thing most elementary schoolers could do on the OP’s list without any help is make the cookies.  And that’s the only thing you outsourced.

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[b]Maybe your elementary schoolers are a little slow? Mine know their colors. If I asked my daughter to get her green shirt, she would do so. If I remind my 4th grader to get her red dress, she'd go get it.[/b]

You're missing the point entirely. The husband isn't the issue here. The OP's inability to communicate and play the martyr is. [/quote]

Are you really this dumb or are you being purposefully obtuse? The point is that not everyone already has a green shirt or a red dress. Neither of my daughters has either of those things - they aren't colors they like to wear. So yeah, my kids can pick out the green shirt from the closet if it's there, but they can't drive themselves to the mall to purchase one if it's not. [/quote]

Why is a red dress necessary for caroling?

How would wearing an existing article of clothing prevent the caroling?

And does this child even want to sing to old people?

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You're using strawmen here.[/quote]

No it's actually a valid follow-up question to your response:

"The point is that not everyone already has a green shirt or a red dress. "

Why is a red dress required for old people home caroling? If procuring red dresses is a burden, why is the caroling venue that requires dress procurement an oblation? I've does caroling without specific outfit and cookie requirements. The children were not deprived of medical care, as a previous poster insinuated.

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I mean, that's great I guess that you have multiple options for caroling that include those with dress code requirements and food obligations and those that don't and you can choose the one that best suits your needs. That scenario is ridiculous, I hope you can see that.

OP's problem is that her kid need a red dress and cookies for the caroling that was offered to her. Arguing about the necessity for the red dress is completely missing the point. [/quote]

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