"...and then proceed to trash the man's domestic incompetence and overweening sex drive."
The book talks about a woman asking herself "Is this all?" after she "made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night", and complains about that husband not being capable of (much) productive housework, and of wanting to be intimate. Yet few women I know of are competent groundskeepers (mowing, raking, external house maintenance). What about that husband who wakes up early, slams down a tasteless (and probably unhealthy) breakfast, grinds through traffic for an hour to a mind-numbing job, grinds through traffic again to come home to a wife uninterested in physical intimacy, kids he rarely has time to spend with, and complaints about how he doesn't help around the house enough? He's probably asking "Is this all?" too. Life doesn't owe anyone, men or women, fulfillment, just the opportunity to feel that way. Actual fulfillment is up to the person. Couples can provide each other a measure of that fulfillment, but ultimately life is what you make it. Stop whining and fix what you don't like.
Does scraping, painting, roofing and siding count as external house maintenance? I hope so - because among other things I'm extremely competent at them all!!!!
Hubby does the mowing because he likes his time on his tractor either alone or with our daughter.
Just like the stereotypes of this article - they generally don't cut it i the real world.