I think that men should help with housework

@SW-User What's always puzzled me is how that tradition came about in the first place. How does having a penis prevent one from helping with housework? I don't see the logic in that at all.

@NankerPhelge It may have had a lot to do with the need for men to labor long hard hours in the fields.

@SweetMae I still don't see what that has to do with what kind of genitals one was born with.

@NankerPhelge I think perhaps the division of labour at the onset of industrialisation is one place this tradition kicked off

@SW-User And where did that division of labour come from? I'm forming the impression that they didn't teach us enough in school about the differences between the sexes. When I was 12, we learned about the biological differences and the reason those differences exist. That was all they taught us. Why didn't they teach us about all this labour division and other differences that create social problems? That way, those of my age could have questioned it all in 1974 instead of waiting until the 1980s by which time they had been forced to learn the hard way about such social problems.

@NankerPhelge Feminists have done their best to educate - Women's Liberation. At what point women became second class citizens I don't know. Contrast their position during the second world war with that when the war ended and men returned home (hopefully though)

@SW-User I have known for some considerable time about the feminist movement and I have always gone along with it. But the thing that baffles me is that up to the age of about 11 I had mainly female teachers in school and none of them had taught us anything about that. It was almost as if they expected us to discover it for ourselves when we were older, which fortunately I did, but some of the others clearly didn't. Why do you think that is?

@NankerPhelge Not part of the school curriculum. Why you were most teachers women?! Let's face it, much of the school curriculum is of no use for life, living

@SW-User The majority of teachers in the junior school were women. I never asked why, I was just glad they were. I think that by the time we are 12 we should start learning in school about life and society as well as conventional school subjects like English and maths.

@NankerPhelge Couldn't agree more. But, there's an educational agenda unfortunately that doesn't include life skills very often

@SW-User And how was that "educational agenda" meant to be compatible with my brain?

@NankerPhelge It wasn't is the simple answer

@SW-User If it wasn't meant to be compatible with my brain, how in the world did they expect me to accept it? Whatever else I may be, I am not adaptable to concepts that don't fit in with my own. That is one thing they should never expect from me.