Life is not
was it was. Especially not, if you are a male.
Our
contribution to childcare, cleaning and cooking has increased tremendously with
the success of the women’s liberation movement. Fair enough, the couple should
share the burdens of running the household.
And, admittedly, the women still do most of the work when it comes to
shopping. What would the wardrobe look like without a woman in the house? And
would there be one?
But there’s
another reason for the increase in our burden.
The multitude of electronic appliances. Although many of them claim to
be “intuitive”, only the cell phone and the credit card machine seem to be
truly intuitive in the female sense of the word. The others are the man’s
domain.
Try to
think of the hours spent sorting out problems with computers, satellite
receivers, the setting up of television sets, installation of game consoles
etc. Add to this the maintenance of cars, often two in a household, and garden
machinery. And of course the bigger houses we live in now. And we have, most of us,
many more consumer goods than our parents had.
But all this has come at a price. We have less free time than our dads had.
We will have
to start multitasking to cope. The women claim that they do that much better
than we do. Maybe if we could learn it, someday it would again be politically
correct to be man, and we would be accepted as equal partners.
I have
started. Today I charged a phone AND a laptop, while AT THE SAME TIME having a
nap on the couch.
I can’t
wait to tell my wife.
PS: I shouldn’t have. And we will have been in our graves many years, before we will be politically correct, I should add.
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