| Bad_Rich_Chic |
06-18-2003 12:09 PM |
Man-hos, watch out!
OK, if it wasn't for your explanation I would hav assumed, from your subject line, that this was a continuation of our discussion of the increasing commonness of the "house-boy" phenomenon among our age group. 'Cause, I'm the primary breadwinner, too, and having all those "it sucks to be the breadwinner" feelings (though none about not taking care of the children), and the Mr. has taken to referring to himself as a "man-ho," chiefly in front of my mother because it drives her nuts. (Also because he thinks Deuce Bigalow was a brilliant unappreciated movie, but moving on...) I keep telling him I don't keep him in high enough style to be a proper man-ho, and make him clean, cook and do home repairs besides, but he insists he's a slug-a-bed cabanna boy anyhow.
Anyway, the whole thing was reminding me of the fact that, in most of the world, women are, in fact, the main providers for their families, economically as well as in housekeeping. But no one realizes this. In most of the world, the men sit on their asses or head into town to drink tea and shoot the shit while women do all the work.
Just thought I'd comment.
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