Indian Princess:

You don't like making Indian food? Shiki loves Chicken Vindaloo with samosas and some fruit-filled naan.

Why don't you like cooking?
Shiki

i can drink a few beers in four minutes

Even those huge Foster Lager beers?

IF you are a grown up, You should be capable of doing all those things for yourself. If you are in a relationship, you should be able to decide amongst you how to share responsibilities according to your own PERSONAL strengths.

And those responsibilities should be reasonably distributed. ONe person should not be required to be working AROUND the clock for the mere privilege of having a relationship while the other just continues to work 9-5, five days a week for a PAYCHECK, and a relationship, and a maid/cook/babysitter/prostitute ,at home


If it is only two grown ups involved, and one does NO work outside the home. I can understand showing appreciation for that freedom they have during the day, by 'waiting on' the wageearner when they return from working.

If it is two grown ups who BOTH work outside the home, BOTH should also be working INSIDE the home.

IF it is two grown ups with children, they should be showing their children an example of how to appreciate others by BOTH being equally open to 'waiting' on the other when they are together. When one is DONE with their job outside the home, the other has been doing their JOB inside the home(caretaking) and they should both be open to helping EACH OTHER feel relaxed.

all she can carry

Msharmony, I must respectfully disagree. Women and men are different. I'm not saying better or worse, but different.

A man's job is to provide for his woman intellectually, spiritually, physically, emotionally, and financially. A woman's job is to cook and clean.

Both jobs are different and yet important. It is the circle of life.

I appreciate the respect...lol

women and men ARE different but not in ABSOLUTE terms. Not all men excell at 'providing' and some are actually EXCELLENT cooks(most our well renowned chefs are male), and if they are good at it and enjoy it,, why shouldnt they do it?

likeise with women, they dont all excel at being nurturing or cooking OR cleaning and some are actually BRILLIANT minds who excel at crunching numbers or creating new inventions or managing others, and if they are good at it and enjoy it,,why shouldnt they do it?



not all adults are in a relationship and part of growing up is being SELF sufficient. Which means, an adult, male or female, needs to know how to cook and clean and provide. God bless the child thats got his(or her) own, rather than depending upon another to do it FOR them.

I think the ideal mate(female or male) is one who can do it all as opposed to one who restricts themself based upon their gender and one who lifts the burdens of the other instead of demanding and expecting that they take on more....but thats just me

Wait wait...did we take the Delorian back to the 50's or something?

That's one opinion. It's certainly not a universal absolute. Who's in any position to make that determination for anyone (let alone everyone) else?

"Who's in any position to make that determination for anyone (let alone everyone) else?"

With great power comes great responsibility.

Thanks, I understand Stan Lee's early Spider-Man work....

All that aside, my point is -- who has the power to make that determination? I am not aware of anyone in that position.

As an example -- I can't cook at all, not without starting a disaster of nuclear proportions. I don't even try anymore.

Some of my exes could cook, some couldn't. Didn't matter to me either way. That's why Al Gore invented Arby's.

Not everyone has the same priorities. And I sure as hell don't want anyone telling me what mine SHOULD be.

It's a moot point, because you're a man, so you don't have to cook. That's what women are for.

But some men like to cook. Does that make them wrong, or bad, or something other than men?

I don't think so. I think that makes them men who like to cook.

And some women don't like to cook. Does that make them wrong, or bad, or something other than women?

No.

I mean, if you want to sit around and make up arbitrary standards and say "Men should do this, and women should do that," well, fine, but don't expect anyone else to live by that.

I could say "Men should all wear orange and purple clown suits, and women should all throw rocks at elephants," and it has just as much worth as anyone else's opinion. Which is to say, none.

when your ship lands, have your alien brethern beam me up so that I can set your ***straight

nobody defines for me what I do

that's the stupidest thing I have ever seen. really

ummmmmmmmmm I think so - gimme a jump from that fast *** Ford u got

I did not say that I didn't like to cook and I can cook some Indian dishes as well..

What I believe I said was that "NO ONE will demand that I do anything. What I do I do because I want to NOT because it's expected"..

You state "Who's in any position to make that determination for anyone (let alone everyone) else?"

Yet you continue to tell us what a man's job is and what a woman's job is.. HOW pray tell does anything you've said hold any validity IF you keep contradicting yourself?

Where we're going we don't need roads

Awesome!!

the goofman gets the EXACT quote

that's a kiss to Goof