Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00230)

>My not-so-subtle attempt to use humor to suggest that men and women are moving
>towards a point where jobs and tasks will not be assigned by gender with
little
>damage to their mental/emotional state.

I was raised with the view that there was man's work and there was
woman's work. Women cooked and cleaned while men mowed the lawn
and made repairs etc. After I got married I learned of a whole new
way of doing business because my wife had not been raised that
way. She taught me to do dishes floors kids etc. When our first-
born boy was brought home from the hospital my wife was laid up
in bed and so I had to take care of him. We had never discussed
who would do diappers for example. But the circumstances left me
as the only one who could do it and so I did. By the time my wife
was up and walking around I was already used to it and so
continued to help her out with all of our children. I don't believe
that this made me any less of a man.

Jerry S.