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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Not to denigrate "stay at homes" or anything like that, mind you. It isn't the lifestyle or division of labor that pisses me off, it is the assumptions about what men are "supposed" to do and be responsible for that I've found sometimes (often, even) underlie it. It's the assumption that because you're married and he's the man that he owes you a fucking living, while you owe him ... childcare, affection (if he's being a good boy), whatever. And that an attempt to revisit those assumptions is doing you some wrong and imposing some undue burden on you.
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Not to start a fight, but the same argument can be made about the assumptions about what women are "supposed" to do and be responsible for. Polls (yeah, I know) always show that women still carry a very large share of the housework/cooking/child rearing/etc. burdens in the home today, even when they work outside the home as much as the man. There are assumptions running both ways.
There are just as many men out there who think they have married a maid/cook/washwoman/nanny/sex slave as there are women who think their husband should foot the bill for everything.
