Wifely Duty

Josh just like this essay on books called "The Wifely Duty." It's less a review of books and more a discussion about topics affecting women and the popular books written about them. My favorite part is listed below.

"Until they program men to notice you're out of toilet paper, a happy domestic life will always be up to women"—a sentiment almost unanimously held by the working mothers I know. What we've learned during this thirty-year grand experiment is that men can be cajoled into doing all sorts of household tasks, but they will not do them the way a woman would. They will bathe the children, but they will not straighten the bath mat and wring out the washcloths; they will drop a toddler off at nursery school, but they won't spend ten minutes chatting with the teacher and collecting the art projects. They will, in other words, do what men have always done: reduce a job to its simplest essentials and utterly ignore the fillips and niceties that women tend to regard as equally essential."

A theme seems to be how women's roles at home, in the workplace, and in society in general have changed which directly affect the roles of two married people. My generation, especially, is trying to figure out how to be liberated yet still be successful in marriage. I think the one lesson we all need to learn is being selfless. A partnership never works if someone is selfish. There's no way a marriage can work with two people being selfish.

Another interesting article
Guardian Unlimited's article "I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush" which calls out the President on his intentions to attack Iraq.

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