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Shell
Lv 4
Shell asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 1 decade ago

This is what I think about "being a man" do you agree?

My husband has been working a very physically and mentally taxing job for 12 years (he builds robotics for the big 3) He has work on average of 60 hours a week. He has handled all the bills and home maintance, yard work and generally cruddy jobs around the house.

I have had our children. I have worked on and off (when his shift allowed me too). I have taken care of the home and shopping as well as the care of the children. Up until the last 2 years I have not worked full time. I was how ever a college student. I now work as a paralegal.

I have no doubt my husband has worked harder and has endured more pressure by far then I have taking care of a family.

I believe this happends in most cases. Men generally take on more then their partners. Why is this such a huge argument between the sexes? Why cant we just stand back, swallow our pride and call it what it is?

Understand I am speaking of men in committed relationships.

Do you agree?

* I am not trying to troll I swear. I have just been working on my hummbleness and had an ephiany*

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  • Ben
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    Depends on what your idea of a "man" is. Unfortunately, we live in a society where men are encouraged to be sissies and sit by while their female counterparts are encouraged to succeed. In my opinion, the man should provide the primary income for the family if the woman is having children as he has more time to dedicate to his career. I also believe that part of being a man is having the ability to work. Even as a teenager, I was always the best at wherever I worked and that work ethic has helped me to excel in the workplace as an adult. A "man" should always put his family first and if that means working a 60 hour workweek, he should do it. It has nothing to do with 'dominance,' it has to do with who makes more sense to be working during a pregnancy. My wife is a stay at home mother, and takes care of our 3 year old and 1 year old when I work. When I come home, my house is clean and my wife has a HEALTHY dinner cooked for all of us. I get to talk to my kids and my wife with no stress. Shouldn't that be what home is? I don't know how my family would function if I didn't have my wife at home to keep things running smoothly. It is extremely offensive when it is suggested my wife is "oppressed." I think that a "man" should be able to provide for and emotionally, not so much physically in the modern world, protect his family.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Beautiful spoken but not entirely right. If you would speak only like this and never use your mouth for dirty unclean words. Now, easter is not when The Holy Sacrificed Son died, easter comes from Ishtar, goddess Isis, Nimrod's wife, Nimrod died and theyr son got the same name as his father, Nimrod and now the goddess of sex/beauty, the mother married the son, she sayd she comes from the egg of the moon and she loved rabbits as pets and animal sacrifice for her, she love eating rabbits. Now theyr son is Tamuz and Nimrod birthday is 25 dec, both nimrods. All govt registered/authorized churches are observing holy days which are most horrific crimes in human history. Christ is not His name nor Jesus and it its only a cheap untrue excuse when they say its the translation, Christ comes from hindu Krishna and is hard to research this for hindu religion got 33 million gods and thats why many of the christian churches have almost the same rituals. Gods name: Yahuwah, Sacrificed Son's name: Yahushua. Jehova, Yahweh and stuff like this is different gods already, powerless dieties you should not give any kind of worship or even pronounce theyr name whitout explaining these are the names that should not be spoken of. Speach is powerfull! Your own words have overwhelming power over people and exnvironment. Dont think of yourself wise to ask how, for it is not many decades since scientists have discovered the DNA and did not expected to be a code in there, nor programming, nor language and still they are so complex that not in 1000 years of computer technology advances would not get to crack the code. 10 to the power of 50, the number of atoms in the universe is already to big for any computer world have and when talk about DNA you start whit 10 to the power of 39.997 this is the probability for one single cell to be in front of your computer but there are many cells within you so the DNA coding is so complex that we can put about trillions of trillions of trillions of times the number of the atoms in the DNA coding just to obtain one single cell ... hmmm spontaneous combustion right...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well I'm not sure if men normally take on more work than their wives. I know quite a few women who work a damn lot.

    If you're talking about decent men, then yes, I do agree that decent men feel an inner drive to protect the ones we love, and in circumstances which call for it, that can drive us to take on more work than our spouses. But it isn't automatic. A rich man who wants to do nothing may very well do nothing while his wife may decide to volunteer for charities and so on. Being a man doesn't necessarily make a person a hard worker. It all depends on how much his hard work is needed. If he's fully capable of protecting his family, he may choose to work very little.

    I think a better rule would be to say men are providers and protectors, rather than trying to determine which sex works harder than the other. That isn't something which I feel is divisible by gender.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That's what I think of being a tool. That's why marriage is for fools. Life is easy if you make 80 grande a year and only have yourself to worry about and it's better.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Agreed. Most women nowadays are lazy as f*ck.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I agree a lot with what you are saying, but you are obviously generalizing. There are a lot of women that have terrible husbands. Just saying. But it's great your life is working out good.

  • 1 decade ago

    What are you saying? Are you crazy?

    Don't you know it's taboo to care about a man's feelings anymore?

    You better correct yourself before you are shunned by your female internet girlfriends.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sounds balanced, actually. Could he have worked less? Surely. You've both "bought" what you wanted. Balanced isn't equal. . .

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I disagree very much, but we all think what we want.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I agree that is what it used to be about, but the lesbo-fascists hated straight women and heterosexuality so much that they screwed women up so bad that the West in now in decline.

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