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To: James R. Barrett who wrote (32337)	3/10/1999 8:36:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<He is so helpless in the kitchen that one time he added a can of water to Campbell's Pork & Beans.>> You mean that's not right? SR

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (32337)	3/10/1999 8:44:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>>>>>Let's face it, men are incompetent when it comes to simple housework.<<<<< Not true. My husband is very good at simple housework. We take turns cooking supper and washing the supper dishes. There are some things he never does, like wash the walls or the baseboards, and he almost never mops, but he does sweep. He can wash the clothes, although he doesn't fold the dry ones to my standards. But I have learned to just look the other way and not complain. I give the kitchen a good cleaning when I do the supper dishes, and after breakfast, that means wiping the stove and the countertops and such, he never does that, but I have learned not to complain about that, either. He does clean the bathroom that he and the boys use, I refuse to do it. I don't pee on the floor, and I refuse to clean pee off the floor.

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (32337)	3/11/1999 7:43:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Jim, I suspect that some men are incompetent at housework because they don't want to do it. Make one almighty hell of a mess of it and the wife (or idiot girlfriend) will shudder and take over. Very clever. It does lead to some stunning inequities in the division of labor in a two-wage household, though. When my kids were growing up I was in charge of discipline. I guess I "lucked out"? Both of my parents worked and divided the household chores pretty evenly. Discipline was also shared: Whoever was on the spot at the moment did the necessary disciplining. We couldn't even get away with playing them off against each other because they would check before answering. Even explaining sex was shared. Whoever was on the spot for the question got to provide the answer. This attitude may have nipped in the bud a good deal of false modesty and embarrassment.