SUGARTITS; being a supplement to yesterday’s post, for the edification and moral instruction of young men and women concerned about the equity of their gender roles
A couple weeks ago, the New York Times came out with this article about the distribution of labor within American marriages, which reached the top of their “most-emailed” list. And guess what? According to the author of the piece, Lisa Belkin, things aren’t equal.
No, things are awful. And people are irrational. (As one of the experts quoted in the article explains, “When you look at this rationally, it is very difficult to understand why things are the way they are.â€Â)
You see, men have things very good, and women have things very bad. Why? Because wives do a lot more housework than their husbands. (She claims that this only counts unpleasant work like cooking, not fun stuff like reading to your kids.)
Hmm. But … wait a minute. Is that all that matters? Think about it. What’s missing?
(h/t Insty)
This explains why I’m so centered (h/t Hot Air newsfeed)
Experts emphasize that people should not try psilocybin on their own because it could be harmful. Even in the controlled setting of the laboratory, nearly a third of participants felt significant fear under the effects of the drug.
I have to say that this is ridiculous. A lab is one of the last places I’d like to be with a head full of psilocybin. Outside at a remote campsite is more like it. In the rain. Nekkid.
Article reveals what Pentagon will do with new satellites (hint: spy)
Give me the java; hold the hookworms, please. (h/t Insty)
I grind the beans and make the coffee for my husband. ‘Cause I loves him.
“Because wives do a lot more housework than their husbands.”
Only because women seem to have a much lower tolerance for filth and disorder than men do.. If women would just learn to turn a blind eye toward the dirty clothes in the middle of the floor, the overflowing trash can or the week’s worth of moldy dishes piled in the sink, then they could slack on housework too and men and women would be truly equal.
Trash Day
Better Half is going to kick my ass if she ever reads this.
Comment by JD on 7/1 @ 8:49 am #
Better Half is going to kick my ass if she ever reads this.
Get her to wear leather and spiked heels! It could be fun!
“I grind the beans and make the coffee for my husband. ‘Cause I loves him.”
… and I got no one that loves me… so I got a receptionist.
From your shroom story
the questionnaire answers indicated lasting gains in traits like being more sensitive, tolerant, loving and compassionate.
I must have had some really bad stuff, cuz like, I didn’t get me any of that sensitivity, tolerance, love and compassion.
I turned into a reich-wing death beast.
Probably too much peyote.
I make coffee for my lovely wife. Because I can. And because she never makes it strong enough!
From Dan’s psilly link…
Sufism, reoriented?
You don’t understand. Women working any more than they want to is too much. Haven’t you seen Sex and the City? Its all about empowerment!
“With further research, psilocybin (pronounced SILL-oh-SY-bin)…”
That’s very helpful I think.
[channeling HF]
““Is this God in a pill? Absolutely not,†he said.”
Well, MY God exists in a cocktail of amphetemines and Lor-Tabs.
It’s just too bad that I don’t take drugs anymore. They made God easy to find, but work?
Not so easy to find work when you are God’s drug addled confidant…
“Even in the controlled setting of the laboratory, nearly a third of participants felt significant fear under the effects of the drug.”
It sounds so Man From U.N.C.L.E. — The Quadripartite Affair.
( Conveniently viewable online )
I gladly make coffee for my wife.
Now when it comes to cooking, I’ve eaten mine, and I’ve eaten hers. It’s no contest. We’ve had one bad meal in 32 years of her cooking. (If anyone knows the jerk who created the pineapple hot dog recipe for Reader’s Digest, kill her or him. That one is deserving of the death penalty, honest.)
“Do you want Mongolian Barbecue or Gyoza for dinner?” I love choices where there is no wrong answer.