Reasons to be single (and cheerful)
It amazes me that in 2010, women who marry still find themselves responsible for most of the domestic drudgery. Check out this sad article by Ann Friedman in The American Prospect.
I have a theory that if more women demanded a better deal, they’d get it (and, by the way, it also bugs the hell out of me that married women’s first names usually appear after their husbands’ on Christmas cards, but since women write the damn things , we have nobody to blame but ourselves).
I’m all for getting married, if that’s what we want, and as long as we’re not caving into society’s low expectations for us. If marriage is on your mind, read this article and decide what you’re willing to put up with and what you’re not.
Tags: Ann Friedman, gender inequity, The American Prospect
By Terry Hernon MacDonald, Parenting, Relationships, Single and Fab!
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By Singlutionary, January 16, 2010 @ 12:51 am
Hahhhhhahhhhhahhahhahhaaa! This is why I can’t get married! I can’t tolerate all the traditional sexism. If I were a bigger person, maybe I would get married and try to live a marriage on my terms.
But you’re really swimming upstream when you do that. Really.
I’ll clean my house for me but I am certainly not being support staff for another person’s life.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Its just wrong for me.
By Lee, January 22, 2010 @ 11:26 am
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