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Originally Posted by Eva Salzman
Apart from this, I noticed (I think on another discussion) a very reasonable man insisting on how important it was that household things be shared: if he were asked he'd like to think he'd do his share, and that his wife-to-be should certainly be "allowed" time to herself! Why should she have to ask? Because it's her responsibility it goes without saying? And "allowed"?! Male writers' lives are supported and shored up to an unbelievable degree by having a support system most women can only dream about.
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Gah.
I said, "I
know that when I am a father, I will be more than willing to share the responsibilities of raising a family, and thereby allow my wife to have some time to herself to do whatever it is she wants to do."
That doesn't mean that
I will be "allowing" her...but that
circumstances will allow it. Goodness gracious...why does there seem to be this assumption that there's subtext to my words? And did you miss the part where I said it is ..."every human's inborn right to have some time to oneself"?