Well, Clive, all I can say is that this has been my experience, and the experience of many men I know. They sit there in filth and squalor and see nothing that needs doing - the women see it all, and can't bear to leave it messy.
Here is a graph of household work-loads from the UK:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=288
And note this statistical fact:
Women were also much more likely than men to say they ‘like’ most household tasks.
Pat, bravo, and well-said.
Poetry, we know, is not exactly sought after by the masses...why fight about gender between us, create segregated boards, take on yet another cause in the mix when we should be united, men and women poets, spending our time writing, honing and promoting it ?
I agree. This reminds me of a quote I have posted on the site before, but there are always new readers:
"A class concept does fundamental injustice to the complexities and idiosyncrasies of individuals, who are by definition distinct from one another, and only alike in vague and gross ways. To know any individual, you do worst by starting off with the widest category she or he belongs to and do best by being most precise. I cannot ever know myself 'as a man', and can never find my 'true manhood', 'essential masculinity', etc. The class concept exists only as an abstraction, apart from actual human beings, each one different, none exactly fitting any class definition, unless that definition is to be diluted beyond significance.
The whole bloody planet - its species, primordial peoples, biosphere, differentiated languages, gene pools - is sliding fast into extinction. As the ship goes down, does it matter whether it's men or women who are the first to drown? Even victims can pull an oar."
- James Hillman
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