I went back and read through some of the Hammond stuff.
She writes in one: Running a home is a full time job that woman are made to handle--men just can't do it the same way we can! It must be all those hormones we have that allow us to multi-task so well.
Or maybe it's the fact that many men enact the approach advocated by Shel Silverstein in one of his poems, about the little girl who does not want to wash dishes today. So perhaps if she breaks a few...
Men aren't stupid. They've learned that if they leave stuff undone long enough, women will do it. Why? Because generally they don't notice it or it doesn't bother them. We notice it and we are bothered by it.
When we have the MV's younger brother, you can bet we'll be training him out of that mindset early.
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Date: 2006-07-16 02:02 am (UTC)I went back and read through some of the Hammond stuff.
She writes in one:
Running a home is a full time job that woman are made to handle--men just can't do it the same way we can! It must be all those hormones we have that allow us to multi-task so well.
Or maybe it's the fact that many men enact the approach advocated by Shel Silverstein in one of his poems, about the little girl who does not want to wash dishes today. So perhaps if she breaks a few...
Men aren't stupid. They've learned that if they leave stuff undone long enough, women will do it. Why? Because generally they don't notice it or it doesn't bother them. We notice it and we are bothered by it.
When we have the MV's younger brother, you can bet we'll be training him out of that mindset early.
DV