Hot Men Doing Housework: A Bona Fide Trend
IconWatch, a cutting edge e-newsletter from cultural trend research company Iconoculture, just turned their laser beam sight onto Porn for New Moms in their latest issue:
“While this book may be poking fun at old stereotypes, younger Gen Xers and Millennials are taking a more partnered approach to parenting where dads really do want to participate in more of the child care duties. Still, poking a little fun is just fine.”
We like to poke fun, but we also like a seriously clean house and a glass of wine with dinner. (And although a few of us are a little more “mature” than Gen Xers and Millennials, we think we’re the target audience for hot men doing housework, too!)
We at the CWPC are glad to know that our research has contributed to the progression in partner roles and that times they are a changin’. We often receive emails from women who announce that their husbands, boyfriends and partners have not only used our books as inspiration—they’ve even gifted our books to the women in their lives.
As President-Elect porn star Barack Obama would say, that’s change we can believe in. (Indeed, he exposed his porn pin-up status to People magazine in August, revealing that before his campaign, he did “the grocery shopping” and “sometimes the laundry.” If he can keep it up in the White House, he’ll be a hottie beyond our wildest dreams!)
The presidential porn star smiles in the checkout line.
November 13th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
This trash is the worst kind of pornography.
It should be obvious even to you illiterate and media brain-washed Xers and millennials (who comes up with these terms, anyway?) that the primary cause of the current economic meltdown is that men have been distracted from performing their REAL job. Bringing home the bacon.
Do you really want your president wasting time with the Hoover? The bad-guys who want to kill us and destroy our freedoms don’t do housework. They don’t even bathe.
Please, stop glorifying this girly-man lifestyle.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Since when is housework not a REAL job, old fogey? There wouldn’t be a home for manly men to bring hog to, if someone didn’t manage it. Get with the times, dude. The problems of the world don’t multiply because a guy does the dishes. We all (men and women in the U.S. and abroad) do our part generating problems in the world; reinforcing gender stereotypes, and following the examples of folks you would probably call “terrorists” (that’s what you’re getting at when you write about “bad-guys” and the “destruction of our freedoms,” right?) who “don’t do housework” does nothing to make the world a better place. Don’t be so negative, and lighten up, trash talker.
November 19th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Bringing home the bacon:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u41/siblog/siblog/bacon-briefcase.jpg
November 19th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I think Jane is trying to make a point.
Maybe.
Can someone translate Jane’s remarks into English?
November 20th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
If you’re so disgusted with this “trash” Mr. Faber, I’m surprised you keep coming back for more.
What, did you Google “Porn” and get to this site? If it sickens you, stop!
Or maybe you can’t. And…that’s your problem.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:41 am
Golly gee, Jane. Let’s review…
I discovered the site while researching an article on Barack Obama and the internet.
I posted my opinion.
You responded to me. I’m sure your response is full of wise insight from which I might learn. Unfortunately, the prose is so convoluted it defies understanding. So I asked for a “translation”. This was perhaps not the best choice of words.
I’m still hoping someone, perhaps even Jane herself, can explain her original submission.
Are you suggesting that there’s something unseemly about googling “porn?” There would be delicious irony in that. After all, isn’t the whole point of this site to exploit (in the commercial sense) the titillating value of the word “porn?”
November 29th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Jane, I would like to make the point that Mr. Eberhard Faber is entitled to his opinion, and we cannot erase that. I would underline the fact that he would do well to erase the errors before him.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I have no errors before me. Some in the past, perhaps.
December 14th, 2008 at 1:34 am
The point of it is that these “girly men” as Mr. Sexist would put it, are the REAL men. Men who are sure enough of their masculinity, to know that doing something to help the house that they sleep, eat, and live in DOES NOT make them any less male, strong, etc.
What helping out around the house DOES do, is make it easier for their partner, which has one BIG “manly man” benefit. It could VERY likely increase the chances of his partner being “in the mood” later at night, for many reasons.
Also, what about the many households where the wife happens to have the better paying, and often more “busy” job (or in some cases, the only job). Should she bust her butt at work and then do the housework AS WELL?
This world is no longer entirely medieval anymore (thank goodness) and we must adapt accordingly. If you wish to cling to the old “Me Tarzan, You Jane, Me bring bacon, You cook it” Idealism, you are free to go to one of the many remaining primitive countries where this archaic ideal is still in practice.
December 27th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Who cannot resist the books Porn For Woman?
Its such a wonderful book!! Its funny! And not what you would think it is, because of the title hehe
Porn for Woman has made my hubby more willing to do a little dusting here and a little dusting there :)!
Please make more books!! Im dying to read some new ones
February 27th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Stop the madness. Eberhard, why so much anger? Dude.