when it comes to household chores...

The "blue jobs" -household tasks that women say are the responsibility of men.

"Pink jobs" -household tasks that men say are the responsibility of women.

for e.g

Retrieving items from the loft
investigating strange noises in the night,
removing lids from jam jars and
unblocking toilets

remembering birthdays,
packing school lunches and
replacing toilet rolls when they run out.

According to you, which task goes to women and which to men

seriously??? All those chores are the responsiblity of both the female and the male.....unless the male isn't man enough to check out the "bumps in the night"...then us big girls will do it ourselves! LOL

right. but don't you think dividing the tasks still helps

i quit trying to figure women out ...its a losing battle in the mind of men...its just a simple fact tell them what they want to hear and make them feel appreciated and thats about it...but then you have the women who are like "to hell with that just shut up and do me"thats what i'm typing about

I don't need a bloody colour code to figure out who does what jobs around a house...

REAL grownups just do them, when they need doing them...irrespective of gender.

no trueler words

making household chores a fun makes it easy. Dividing the tasks makes it easier...
Infact, i feel, diving the task, doing it in a planned way make one more responsible and sounds more mature.

Sounds more like boot camp to me...........


And obviously you have no practical experience in jobs around the house........

Sounds boot camp...

but guess what boot camp thing helps in long way...
You are wrong..I've good experience in household chore and this way works.
and did I say it has a rewarding part too in the end

hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!! SO you got a reward for being a good little blue jobber?


LMAO!!!!!!!!!!

Even the pink jobber gets it......

task can be divided without that colour code too...miss mature

Mate...............

you think that division of labour, and sex needs to be some discussion boardroom type experience, and that creates maturity?


Truth is, if it needs doing, the MATURE people in the relationship dont need to cross reference to see who needs to do it, and file a triple copy recommendation... they just bloody do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????

BLUE & PINK JOBS????

I have shoveled the snow
I have mowed the yard (WITHOUT a rider)
I can change my tire
I can give a oil change
ive worked on my toilet
ive cleaned out the gutters
ive painted a house
ive helped chop wood
ive replaced faucets
i wash my vehicle BY HAND
ive crawled on the roof to help replace the roof

arent these jobs for MOST....considered MAN JOBS?????? so whats that make me????? there IS NO JOB OUT THERE, that should be labled as HIS or HERS!!! set your mind to it.....you can do ANY and ALL of them!!!!!!

It's really not a "help" dividing tasks strictly by gender which you expressed in your initial question/comment. If anything, it would hinder a relationship because it belittles a woman by establishing "pink" chores for her...and what this denotes about your feelings of a woman's place in her own home. Chauvinistic to say the least. Her contribution goes far beyond "women's work"...or pink as you like to call it and often women do a better job on so-called "men's work"...or blue as you like to call it. It is somewhat offensive to establish things based on genitalia. I can't believe Mr. Therapy would even say such a thing. Are you really a therapist or "do you just play one on the boards?"

Dividing chores is one thing which I really don't believe is necessary...when something needs to get done...just do it. What's next a chore wheel? What is "mature" is just being "responsible" for what needs to get done in general. This doesn't make it "fun" or "easier." It's very silly and immature if one thinks this is necessary to do what is common sense. My parents have been married over 40 plus years and my father does alot of "pink jobs" and my mom does alot of "blue jobs." Are you married? BTW-They are very happily married.

yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What she said!!!!!!!!!!

and what I said... and all the other really grown up people said!!!!!!!!!!

All the jobs are Brown.......

Agree. anybody can do anything
The core idea is to divide the responsiblity, thats it.

Chores have to be divided up somehow. Some things will naturally go to the woman, as long as she doesnt have a chip on her shoulder about being a woman. When my girlfriend moves in with me, she already knows she is taking care of birthday and christmas cards, and she is happy with it. That is more her thing than mine, and id bet than in general it will be more the thing of the woman rather than the man. There is little point in , say, me doing the laundry and leaving her to do the heavy stuff. I can do that quicker and easier, and generally that would be the case for men(before you start reminding me that you can heavy stuff yourselves). You cant put a definate label on what is a man or a womans job, but you gotta be sensible about things.

Hey the colour coding is just for fun.
I clearly asked which should go to men and which to women. But by that I didn't mean women are less in any way. The core idea here is to divide the task and do it. In addition, I would always prefer my partner to peform lighter work because I care for her but if she wishes to help me, she can..why not..