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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP..troll rating 9/10 this time[/quote]

Really?? I was just reading through the thread after being away from the keyboard for several hours, and I was *so* excited to see it got so much traction!

I really meant it when I said this is an important issue. I think it’s more important than most of what gets posted here. This division of household labor issue is at the core of inequality in our society. We should care about it whether we have daughters or sons - after all, who really wants to be the person who raised an entitled son who doesn’t pull his weight equally in the home, in the 21st century??

I’m well into middle age and I have managed to avoid marriage. It was never my intent to do so, but the longer I lived and the more relationships I saw and experienced, the more I realized that it was a seriously raw deal for women because in the large majority of cases men purchase their leisure time by women’s labor. And then they want a gold star when they occasionally do the same kind of work around the house and with the kids which women are just expected to do without a word of praise.

The average person teaching their children about the world wouldn’t think to suggest to their daughters or sons that such inequality is fair, yet they model it day after day in the vast majority of households and most kids grow up to live what their parents modeled for them. It seems like a vicious never ending cycle of inequality and exploitation.

If a woman wants a family, she has to accept servitude and ingratitude as a very big part of her lot in life. It shouldn’t be that way.

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