Scientific Proof that Guys Create Work for Girls
Ladies, in case you haven’t seen this wonderful article, it shows that guys create 7 hours of housework for ladies a week. And you know it’s true because it’s in Science Daily. (This is not The Enquirer, my friends. This is real stuff that’s been studied.)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080403191009.htm
I by no means want to say that ladies MUST be the ones to do the 7 hours of housework that guys create. However, in my situation, it will not be done if I don’t do it. I know because my husband and I almost got divorced over a 7-year fight trying to get my husband to be responsible for the dishes. For the majority of this time span, my husband didn’t have a job (not entirely his fault), but I worked full-time and attended graduate school at night. Now, if you have seen my husbands “handy work” (click here and here for examples), you can understand that I don’t particularly want him “helping me” with cleaning under normal circumstances–just when I had a full-time job + grad school (oh + pregnancy), and he was unemployed, it seemed like kind of a logical idea.
Anyway, he later got good jobs and many of them, and I finished gradschool, and the dishes no longer mattered as much. (Sidenote: My husband HAS done the dishes, meaning place them in the dishwasher, 2 times during our 9-year marriage. Neither of those times occurred during the 7 year battle.) OH, and another important detail: while most men create 7 hours of work, I think it’s safe to say that unemployed guys probably create at least 14 or 15 extra hours of work around the house. It’s simple physics: space, time, and mass. Mass in house for long time = many messes in many spaces. However, mass not in house = less time = fewer messes in fewer spaces.
Wow, I just realized that my losing the 7 year war over dishes kind of makes me an expert at something. HE HE. YES, I am the master doormat of housework. Just what I always wanted to be.
Whatever. I’m good a lot of stuff besides being a master doormat. Like Russian language and living in Moscow as an illegal American immigrant for 3 years. (I was young and stupid.) How many housework doormats can say THAT, hu??