Can we say, “I told you so?”
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Well, it may not be grammatically correct for “we” to say “I told you so” but you catch our drift when we say that this article from the Wall Street Journal confirms what we have been saying the whole time: Women love it when men pitch in around the house. We didn’t spend countless hours in the CWPC labs performing test after test for nothing. Well, it may have been overboard to compare the effects of cleaning the main bathroom versus the guest bathroom, but we had to be sure!
The article brings up some interesting points. Perhaps not every woman gets excited by watching her man do laundry (different strokes for different folks: I prefer yard work), but most of the respondents agreed that by sharing the responsibility of maintaining a home, and by extension the relationship, couples feel closer together. I think that the St. Paul, Minnesota accountant said it best:
“To me it’s not the dishes, laundry, vacuuming (or Viagra) that matters,” he writes. Sharing chores reflects a “willingness to hold my wife’s needs and wants on a par with my own. For us, the key to intimacy is the sharing and minimization of selfishness.”
I bet that house sizzles on a Saturday night.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
I find this very offensive on several levels.
Porn means “graphically depicted sexual entertainment that gets me off.”
What you are producing is “relational wishfulfillment imagery.” I can roll with that, I love me some wishfulfillment fantasy. I fulfill all kinds of wishes– I look at guitar and clothing catalogues, imagine a clean kitchen, fame and fortune in my career. All of them very gratifying. BUT! I LOVE sex, and when I look at or read porn, there are people doing the deed.
Calling non sexual material ‘porn for women’ plays into the cultural that women don’t actually like sex. This does no one any favors. For one thing, as a friend of mine pointed out, it makes for disbelief when women say they don’t want to have sex. It makes women who say they Do want to have sex, suspect. It makes liars out of ALL of us. And even contributes to the idea that women need to be raped, in a worst-case scenario– a worst case that exists all to sadly often.
Look, there is a wonderful new movement afoot, to recognise asexuality as something legitimate. There are male and female aces, and if you are one– claim it. Let this site be; “Porn for asexuals.”
Do not assume the right to claim your interests for all the millions of women that exist in this world. That’s…
Well, it’s rude. And wrong.