Random
To celebrate new -yet to be signed officialy- post, roommate and I watched Superman Returns
Again.
Thought: Superman wears clunky boots which I do not approve of.
Also Lois Lane is forward thinking career woman cum mother role that I like but really, why is her head bigger than her body?
I am reading The Feminine Mystique and I wonder if I should discontinue reading it. Because clearly now, I see discrimination everywhere.
Everywhere.
For instance, boy says he would love it if I cook for him.
When?
I mean, when would I get the time to cook?
Now, that I have hopes of possible responsible career which I plan not to fitter away, when would I have time to cook?
Because I am bushed by the time I get home. at 7.
And then I go work out. 8pm.
By which time , a salad would suffice for me.
So, does boy really expect me to cook at 8 pm (and finnicky boy's meal would have to be more than a salad)???
Which means I'll have dinner by 10?
When would boy and I have time to enjoy life and finer things for which we have struggled?
And what if we have kids?
Would I have to take care of them while cooking food?
And what the hell would the boy be doing while I am doing all of the above?
Sit on his back and watch T.V.?
I spend 15 minutes arguing with boy.
"Well, I am certainly not going to cook for you all the time. You have to cook also. and help too."
"Sure, I'll help but just don't expect me to."
"Well, you certainly expect me to cook all the time so how come I can't expect you to help."
"Well, I mean, of course I will help in other ways but just don't expect me to."
"I don't understand how that works. Do you mean to say I have to come home from work and then work in the bloody kitchen?"
"No, we can order out. And of course I will work in the kitchen too just don't expect me too. "
"I just don't get you sometimes, Boy"
"What's there to get? You cook sometimes, I cook sometimes just don't depend and expect me to."
Uh???
Does that mean kitchen work will be an equally divided job or not?
And what is his deal with "not expecting"?
I love the boy all the time. But sometimes, I think he speaks a strange and vexing language that I can never decode.
3 comments:
omg! and here I thought it was just Ro...this don't expect me to is one of the most baffling pieces of boyspeak ever. evah!
it never stops, you know...:)
Just saying...
WOA! that was weird. I thought that was Charles and I for a minute there.
A harsh reality that I have come to accept: men want bonus points for doing anything around the house (there is the occasional exception). These days we ARE expected to bring home the bacon, cook it, and wash the dishes, the laundry the floors etc, while never EVER skipping shaving our legs and ALWAYS doing your hair and make-up.
I had "The War" with Charles a few years ago. I stopped washing his b/c when he did any, he only did his.
The feminine Mystique: good book, but you'll be pissed off for YEARS LOL
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