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My Problem with Housewives
Apr. 21st, 2005 10:26 am1) If a single professional woman wants her "house kept", she hires a housekeeper. If a single professional man does, he gets married.*
2) I was raised to believe that my intelligence would be quite useful in tracking the household finances and also to help my children with their homework.
3) Modern housekeeping (sans children under five) takes about four hours a day.
4) The power struggle that comes up when the man makes money and the woman doesn't is not appealing to me in any way.
5) Urban living being what it is, it's not really feasible. edit: i mean financially unless the guy is in the upper-10% bracket.
6) Accidents happen; people fall out of love, have affairs, whatever. And then you're fucked.
* observation stolen from a female lawyer
2) I was raised to believe that my intelligence would be quite useful in tracking the household finances and also to help my children with their homework.
3) Modern housekeeping (sans children under five) takes about four hours a day.
4) The power struggle that comes up when the man makes money and the woman doesn't is not appealing to me in any way.
5) Urban living being what it is, it's not really feasible. edit: i mean financially unless the guy is in the upper-10% bracket.
6) Accidents happen; people fall out of love, have affairs, whatever. And then you're fucked.
* observation stolen from a female lawyer
