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More Conversations · Bali Food Recipes & World Most Famous Recipes — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:47:12 +0000

[...] Conversations Bee’s Cooking and Chromosomes and Anita’s reply reminded me of a much repeated exchange whenever we are going out to shop [...]

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More Conversations at Blog O Sphere — Sat, 26 May 2007 11:02:51 +0000

[...] Bee’s Cooking and Chromosomes and Anita’s reply reminded me of a much repeated exchange whenever we are going out to shop for essentials. [...]

By: Anjali

Anjali — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:11:45 +0000

Once P and me got into this and then he asked, “If being with a man makes you women sad then where does the happiness come from?” I have been thinking about the happiness since then.

By: Hema

Hema — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:47:29 +0000

Bee and SSG,

I have seen this happen with a distant relation of ours. The husband does not work. He does not like to work. He took voluntary retirement at age 45 and now sits at home. His wife works and they have a 13 year old daughter to care for and educate. This guy is an amazing cook and does all the cooking for the family. Basically, the roles are reversed.

Do you think people praise him for being a good home-maker? Do you think his wife is happy? Do you think the daughter is proud of her dad? no no and no! People say he should be ashamed of himelf for sitting at home while his wife works. His wife hopes, that some day her husband will have the sense to start working and the daughter is now ashamed to talk about her father with her friends…what if someone asks where he works.

As much as I would like the society to accept the man’s decision to be the home-maker, it is true that a man in a woman’s world is pathetic.

Lovely post! It has set me thinking.

By: SSG

SSG — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:41:37 +0000

I am a single male, and about 5 years back I would have wholeheartedly agreed to whatever you have written. However experience has taught me that females uses feminism as a handy convinient tool for opprtunism to have the best of both worlds. In short start working when housework gets boring and decide to be a housewife when the professional world gets too tough.

They mostly want to have a career as a choice (the key word here)with the safety net of a man’s fianancial security to fall back upon.Heaven help the man who decides to exercise his choice to be a “house husband” since his wife is working. Talking about stereotypes as someone said ” A woman in a mam’s world might be progressive , but a man in a woman’s world is pathetic”. And no one is more willing to reenforce this than women.

After all everyone wants to have the best of both worlds, but then let us be less hypocritical about it.

agree with you. however, i personally do not consider a man in a woman’s world ‘pathetic’. – b.