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[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]

In our house DW calls most of those those things “hobbies” so they don’t count.  Two hours of getting our internet back up or printer working again counts as “fooling around on the computer.”  Lol.  In the world many women seem to want, all tasks that are traditionally coded as “female” must be shared 50/50 on feminist grounds, and any traditionally “male” coded tasks simply don’t enter the calculation, ever.  And while most women are more than willing to negotiate in excruciating detail regarding the specific allocation of particular domestic tasks, there is zero willingness to negotiate regarding whether or not something really needs to be done first place or to what standard it must be done to.  What many women seem to want, in essence, is for their spouses to undertake 50% of whatever labor is needed to avoid the potential judgment of other women. [b] I pull my weight, but I’m not going to do a lot of unneeded work because she is worried about what the other moms might think.[/b]   Sorry not sorry.  [/quote]

As a dad, I'm deeply grateful for a lot in my marriage, but the fact that we're mostly on the same page about what's "needed" is one of the most important.[/quote]

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