I am tired from a long day working on my novel, and when my wife comes home from her job, she doesn't feel like cooking! She's let the housework slide, too, and the place is looking awful! So here I am, starving, and watching the dust bunnies grow so big they could fill a hutch, and she says she's exhausted from ten hours of sitting at a desk doing paperwork. She's a freakin' secretary! Probably spends her day filing her nails!
What happened to the good old days when women loved being homemakers, hmmm????? I think it's okay if she works, 'cause we got bills, but she's gotta find time for her duties, too! After all, she's got me to take care of and that's job number one, right?
Another winning question from Jack ;-)
2007-12-13 15:14:28 · 50 answers · asked by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
She's probably tired from whining about how painful childbirth was. I was there watching 3 times and it really didn't look so tough.
2007-12-13 16:26:23 · answer #1 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Tired from working on a novel. Have you made it into print and got paid for any literary works yet? Most haven't. You mentioned your wife is only a secretary and working 10 hours a day. Again working on a novel. That indicates you are working from home. Only a fool would rent an office to do such inspired work.
Why don't women cook and clean? Why do men lay on the sofa, hand down pants the other on a can of beer watching TV instead of working on the car, yard and other useful things?
I'm a guy and single. But if I marry and my wife do the cooking, I will be doing the dish washing (well practiced at KP in the Army and much better and faster than the machines) I'll run the vacuum and do the laundry too. Learned to do that when I was 8. A wife is not a slave. I won't treat her that way.
As to the past, most men a century or so ago were farmers and did real work like plowing and seeding about 3 acres of field a day with horse drawn equipment. Or working in foundries and heavy industry where work was hot, dangerous and back breaking. Hey, I'm a wooz too. Retired metrologist, ex justice of the peace, current jr college teacher (unpaid though) 35+ years as a reserve sheriff officer (again unpaid, matter of fact it costs me $160 a month in gas to do it) Volunteer pushing wheelchairs at the VA Hospital. But once a combat soldier, once a driller (not oil wells but everything else) Once a technical government publications writer. And once a writer for a national publication called Gun Week. Once a gold miner, once a electric power tower worker. Now that was heavy hard and dangerous work and I enjoyed it far more than being in air conditioned comfort at desks. And in 52 of my 60 years, I have never had a wife or family to come home to.... very regrettably so.
2007-12-13 19:14:23 · answer #2 · answered by genghis1947 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Again, JasonX, this is so below the level of a Mensa member! (It's so interesting to check the profiles, as well as the answers and other questions asked by members!) I have been trying to help you to understand that intelligent people generally take the time to think before formulating either their questions or answers, and that most people are interested in the statistics if you are hoping to persuade others that your opinion has any validity. So please share the corroborating evidence with your appreciative audience: "everyone knows that women were made to stay in the kitchen....." Yes indeed, the "everyone knows" thesis is frequently used by Mensa members! "The man makes all the money because he has the brains and skill to do so." Again, I am sure you are just waiting to be asked, so you can share your supporting information! I'm sure a highly intelligent "man" like you has plenty of information on the correlation between gender, salary, "brains and skill!" I know there are lots of studies to back you up on that one! I love your additional details, in which you respond that you "have many women." I am so sure that you do - everything I have seen about you on Yahoo Answers screams "babe magnet!" Oh JasonX, I am having so much fun with you here on Yahoo Answers! I can't believe I was so late to the party.
2016-04-09 02:03:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jack B.,
Are you sure your name isn't Jack A**? If it's the case that in your family, as in mine, your wife is the primary wage-earner (novel-writing doesn't pay a lot until it's finished, right?), then who ought to be doing the tidy-work in the house? I too, know what it's like to write a book and have a contract for my own. I'm also the primary wage-earner, have a part-time job and a kid. The house stays reasonably clean, but only because we're all doing what's necessary to keep it that way.
I'm pretty sure this is a tongue-in-cheek critique of modern life, perhaps nostalgic for a simpler time when women didn't have to work outside the home, baked apple pies and fresh bread, starched shirts and sheets, and were perhaps less than equal with their mates. Thing is, that sort of idyllic scene was only idyllic for the men involved, incurred spiritual death for thousands of women, and wasn't even a reality for women of the blue collar, working and poorer classes: women in those groups have always worked.
2007-12-13 16:01:19 · answer #4 · answered by chick2lit 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A very interesting question! :)
Of course, I understand you and your worries. I guess you are right..... But I am still sure there're still some ladies (my Mum, for example) who can juggle it all - the job, the house, cooking, children etc.
I don't think it's a problem of time really... Stress and work overload are important factors, but... Maybe it's a change in people's mentality... Nowadays almost everything is for the moment, quick, and temporary - from fast food to relationships... And of course, people do not really want to put too much effort in anything temporary... Then the second reason is also our 'me-generation' way of thinking... Need I explain it?
So, your wife doesn't 'feel like coking', yeah? Remember when you last gave her flowers? ;)
2007-12-13 19:29:40 · answer #5 · answered by Olga 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Big mortgage, the private school for the kids, the vacation to Europe and the pair of cars on the carport are the guilty ones. One salary is not sufficient.
My recommendation a good red wine.
2007-12-13 15:36:40 · answer #6 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The tide changed when Elvis died. Women started working outside the home *gasp*, getting their degrees, *cough, cough* and became the queens of their castle ~ all this while raising kids and husbands!
You probably don't know this but you are a pawn in your wife's kingdom. Anything you do ~ she allows you to do ~ now chop chop. Go make your Queen a delicious dish for dinner while multi tasking with a duster. Go get those dust bunnies Pretty Boy!
Don't forget nose kissies for your Queen when she signals for you to take a seat at her dinner table.
Me thinks you and 8 track mind are in heaps of trouble this holiday season. Aye yi yi.
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If I ever ask either of you for relationship advice pah-lease remind me that it will suck. :)
2007-12-13 15:37:52 · answer #7 · answered by No Chance Without Yo Mama 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I do cook and clean and work a full time job, take care of two teenagers and keep my boyfriend happy. So obviously I;m exhausted. Maybe if you help your wife once in a while she won't feel so overwhelmed
2007-12-13 15:25:03 · answer #8 · answered by firebird 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
okay. your definitely confused.
You're wife doesn't just sit around all day filing her nails. Perhaps you don't have to work on your novel ALL day. And here's an even more 'novel' idea! Cut back on what you spend! Don't get FIOS internet and Cable TV and WoW and Netflix and all kinds of other stuff. If you truly work on your novel ALL day, you won't even have time for that stuff. Think about it.
2007-12-13 15:20:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Being a secretary is harder that sitting around typing, writing a novel. Make your wife some dinner.
2007-12-13 16:32:33 · answer #10 · answered by Ayana 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like it's vegemite on toast for you, mate.
By the way.. it's not like my wife doesn't cook... man, she just can't cook!
If it wasn't for the fact that I am able to rustle up a piece of steak, some mashed potato and pumpkin and some sweet peas... I'd starve.
I found my 2 year old son making raisin toast yesterday... lucky for him, he is willing to share. My wife was starving when she got home. She sold all the bacon.
2007-12-13 15:39:50 · answer #11 · answered by Icy Gazpacho 6 · 10⤊ 0⤋