
04-08-2007, 10:05 PM
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Leo was right
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern Iowa
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Originally Posted by Oldfart
How much of this is what we've been taught, not what we've learned?
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Hmmm, that's a tough call OF.
After my folks divorced when I was 11 yrs. old, I basically was "the man of the house" and my "duties" were pretty much everything that my dad had done while they were together. (Actually, I did a bit more than he ever did but that's another story.)
With my mom, it wasn't that she didn't want to know how to do some of the "typical man duties" it was that my dad simply wouldn't allow her because he felt as if, "Men should be men!"
I wanted so badly to be different from that man that I learned pretty much everything I could. When mom was working I cooked, cleaned, did yardwork, laundry, etc..... Paid off in the long run since I never did get married but I never once looked at any of those "duties" as being gender specific. Just look at them as things that need to get done and well, if I'm the one who can do it or if there is a woman who is able to do it then as long as it gets done............. what's the difference?
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