Re: value and gender

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

I think it's a mistake to make a blanket generalization such as >that men take a 
very different view of it than women. At the same time, they seem to enjoy the 
comfort of a clean house.<

I do a heck of a lot of housework and related family-maintenance (baby-sitting) work. My wife does, too, 
but she cares less about the neatness of the house than I do.

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




> -----Original Message-----
> From: joanna bujes [mailto:jbujes@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:33 AM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] value and gender
> 
> 
> It's pretty clear to me that men take a very different view of it than
> women. At the same time, they seem to enjoy the comfort of a clean
> house. I don't know why we'd call it "bourgeois" -- people have been
> cleaning themselves and their houses for ever.
> 
> Joanna
> 
> ravi wrote:
> 
> >joanna bujes wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Some years ago, when I worked for a large, multinational computer
> >>company, I sent out an email to everyone in the company 
> asking why men
> >>don't do housework.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >isnt most of what is called "housework" mostly a meaningless 
> bourgeouis
> >activity? clean this, dust that, the sink should be empty at 
> all times,
> >put the books away in the shelf, fix the slightly leaky faucet in the
> >fourth bathroom, etc.
> >
> >at least that's my excuse ;-).
> >
> >        --ravi
> >
> >
> >
> >
>