The Morning Rant: J.V. Edition

I think the only appropriate response to this harpy is, "Shut your yap and get back into the kitchen. Oh...your sister is better in the sack!"

The writer is clearly too stupid to realize that her shitty marriage has nothing to do with Thanksgiving or the unfair division of labor or the unfair hierarchical patriarchy that she was enslaved by.

It's that she is a horror-show of a woman and a wife. And she married below her relationship skills!

Because it wasn’t just like this at Thanksgiving. We both worked full time in demanding jobs. Yet at the time, my husband didn’t know who the kids’ dentist was, had never made summer camp plans, never bought toilet paper, or filled out all those damn school and Girl Scout forms. He’d never clipped baby fingernails, nor had he been the one to frantically figure out how to get work done when a snowstorm, strep throat, or unexpected barf threw the whole jerry-rigged system of work and child care into disarray.

And it’s a big reason why many marriages don’t last. One study found that women initiate 69 percent of the divorces in heterosexual marriages, and another found that unfair divisions of household labor are a big reason why. (Same-sex couples fare better: Research has found that, without traditional gendered expectations, couples tend to talk more, adapt to changing circumstances, and negotiate fairer deals.)

There is a smug superiority in her tone that really set me off. For fvck's sake, she would text a photo of a neglected chore to her husband. Who does that? It smacks of an unequal relationship. I wonder how she would feel if her husband texted her a photo of a hot young thing from his office and asked why she can't look that good?

The fact is, real men do what they do best, and real women do what they do best. And they don't need lists to figure it out. What they need is the simple recognition that men and women are different, and thank God for that.

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