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Can Men Be the Woman of the House?
MSN ^ | 19-09-2021 | Parinda Joshi

Posted on 09/28/2021 5:38:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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Life was different for all of us, pre-pandemic. Life was especially different for men. Many Indian men, that is. Not trying to sweep half a billion with one stroke, but you get the drift. It wasn’t too long ago when our men needed an app to find where kitchen essentials were kept … or to tell their dals apart. And no number of orientations would do the trick. They’d open the fridge and ask where that mug of cold coffee was even though they’d be staring right at it. That’s because I was told the refrigerator light tends to contract the male eye pupil making it impossible to locate items. Men also thought of the women in their house as a Siri or an Alexa with clairvoyant powers who’d be able to answer questions like where their lost headphones were or what was the name of their boss’s first born.

Men may have been slogging at work and on the jogging tracks in the early mornings. But they were duly exempt from activities such as cooking, cleaning, managing the household staff, and child-raising; activities that were deemed creativity-killing, mental peace-ruining, and grey cell-destroying in the male parlance.

Pre-pandemic was also the time when men not only had different standards but a whole different scale for hygiene, cleanliness, and organization skills. If they could make a list of people to cancel, Marie Kondo would top that list. And they were right. If women felt the need to wear hazmat suits and clip their noses before entering men’s rooms and walk around like they were walking in an abandoned nuclear power plant just because the rooms were coated with dust, grime, and other obscure matter, it wasn’t their problem. In summary, men were unconcerned with these inconsequential things, and therefore,

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TOPICS: Education; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: housework; men; women
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To: Arcadian Empire

What’s wrong with adoptive mothers?


61 posted on 10/27/2021 1:12:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

In my view, nothing.

Adoptive mothers illustrate that giving birth is not a prerequisite for parenting.


62 posted on 10/27/2021 1:20:30 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: setter

I was a merit badge counselor with my son’s boy scout troop. Even the kids with dads weren’t being taught anything. I was teaching the scouts to drive a nail and a lot of dads were watching intently.


63 posted on 10/27/2021 1:23:44 PM PDT by Texas resident (Sucks to be named Brandon now)
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To: Arcadian Empire

Not at all.


64 posted on 10/27/2021 2:24:21 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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