Since it was brought up by the mods: Women and the kitchen

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-10-02T15:35:27+00:00

Fuck that was huge. Just one quibble:

"Consider how the average Agricultural Age household worked: under the Patriarchy the men toiled from sun-up to sundown providing food security for their families in the form of protein and long-shelf-life carbohydrates (meat and grain) while women focused on the domestic issues: the vegetable garden, childcare, cleaning, and, most importantly, cooking."

Women would also work in the field, and many worked as maids, servants etc etc. This isn't to compare the workloads, just to clarify they weren't trapped at home, just trapped in work, like everyone but the rich. There was a lot of work to be done, people were poor always wanted more food etc, nobody kept women out of work, just their muscle mass kept them out of some careers. Only amongst the rich were their jobs women weren't let into - but poor men weren't let into them either.

ignatiusloyola · 2012-10-02T15:13:42+00:00

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2012-10-02T17:22:51+00:00

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2012-10-02T17:59:46+00:00

I didn't read the post, because blogs will rot your brain. That being said, I think housework division should be determined couple by couple. I'm married and my wife actually told me, before we got married, that she wanted to be a housewife. We had a long discussion about what that meant, who was expected to do what, and how money would work.

She makes all of the meals that we eat at home, keeps the apartment clean and takes care of our cats. In return, I pay 100% of the bills, medical costs, groceries etc and put $300 (somewhere between a third and a quarter of my income) weekly into a shared account that she can do w/e she wants with.

If she gets everything done and has free-time left over (which happens a lot, since we have no kids) she can do w/e she wants with her free time. She usually uses it to play Diablo III.

This has been humming along well for the last 2 years. That's what works for my wife and I, that's what we agreed on, other people may have other arrangements and that's just fine.

Also, on the issue of mowing, we have an apartment, so neither of us mows, but we've both mowed before and both like it (beer + music + riding mower is pretty relaxing) so we'd probably trade back and forth if mowing was needed.

Title	Since it was brought up by the mods: Women and the kitchen
Author	Demonspawn
Upvotes	0
Comments	11
Date	October 2, 2012 2:45 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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