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Should women do the housework?
barry_899
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I'm slighly old fashioned and think that women should be able to do things like cooking and looking after the house. Of course they can have careers too, but they should be houseproud too. My gf disagrees. Shes really lazy and can't cook anything other than beans on toast. I do most of the cooking. Last night we had an argument cause the cat threw up on the carpet and we couldn't agree on who should clean it up. She said she didn't want to get her hands dirty. Well, neither do I!
What do yous all think?
What do yous all think?
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Draw up a rota and stick to it, you are both adults and you are both responsible for your home.
You're 6th post and it just so happens to be a thread topic that you know will rile people...
Troll
I've never understood why one partner can graft at work all day yet get home and be told by their other half 'You can clean half the house tonight too'
How does that work?
What if the partner who worked said 'Okay, my dear, I'll clean half the house with me if you finish the Peterson Accounts by 11am tomorrow and complete half my paperwork that requires doing for the Zurich takeover'
Or if someone asks their 'stay at home' partner to finish off the second half of the conservatory they build at work that day, in exchange for doing the washing up and clearing out the spare room.
...I suspect the response wouldn't be positive.
They should be chained, bare foot and pregnant, to the kitchen sink :rolleyes:
Seriously....if neither of you want to clear up cat sick, what is the state of your house like? :eek:
works out just fine
Wow, thats very kind of you:rolleyes: Jesus, what bloody century do you live in? Mind you, you're new so probably trolling to get a reaction so I wont bother to say what I really think. Just to say you 2 wont last.
Yup! In one!
Well they are "able to" aren't they, if they so choose - or do you mean that they should "have to" ?
Maybe your gf can actually cook perfectly well but knows what a chauvinist you are and chooses to pretend she can't.
And I see from your previous posts that you are not getting enough sex at the moment. Happenchance this is why
*sits back and awaits the numerous replies from people actually taking him seriously*
when will some people get over this troll phase?
you can still debate the premise even if the OP is inflammatory.
stop trying to be cool and join the debate:rolleyes:
I don't mean to anger people, just wondering what people's experiences are.
No....it indulges in exactly what they want....to irritate people.
There is no premise to discuss.....maybe in victorian times but not now.
I'm going to open myself up for much abuse here but I have no problem with doing the housework, it's what I do best. I leave the man of the house to do the digging in the garden, the mowing of the lawns, the washing up, the disposal of unwanted creepy crawlies, fixing the plumbing that occasionally goes wrong, fill the walls (as appropriate) when we decorate, assemble items of furniture purchased from Ikea, lays carpets as well as a professional carpet fitter, paints the outside of the house, fixes any loose screws, reaches parts of the household that I cannot because I'm vertically challenged, drives me anywhere that I want to go better than any taxi I could call and goes out to work to bring home the cash to keep me in the style to which I'm accustomed. A bit of dusting, polishing and cooking is small reward for all that my man does for me. And the best thing of all is that he actually loves me.
That everyone's relationships are different. Fixed role expectation to one may not be acceptable to another, nor practical; hopefully it can be mutually sorted but if expectations do not match, or compromise cannot be reached, then surely the relationship is doomed.
Doomed, I tells ya!
The fact that most women still do most of the housework in 2011 is a debate.
You seem to be the only poster irritated?
All thise things you listed I do all those too, just because I like to keep busy and enjoy DIY as well as the housewrok.