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So is Christmas women's work then?

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Katisha · 22/12/2010 15:38

Following on from my thread here in which in would appear that left to their own deives most, (not all), men would hardly bother with Christmas at all, I would be interested to know why this is.

Is it because women do it all for them? Is it because only women want all the traditional food, decorations, visiting, card sending and frenzy of present buying?

Are women propping up some ridiculous commercial christmas industry and men are right to despise/ignore it?

Or what?

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LynetteScavo · 22/12/2010 15:47

Christmas involves forward planning, which men tend to be less good at than women.

If Christmas was left entirely to men to organise, things would still be the same, but there would be a massive surge of people in the shops a couple of days before Christmas. It would be ridiculous.

BlingLoving · 22/12/2010 15:42

Interesting. I didn't actually go to that thread although I saw it a few times.

There is no doubt that I take on the bulk of Christmas planning responsibility. But that's because I take on most forward planning responsibility in our house. I am much better at it. Dh takes on the bulk of day to day tasks. So, at Christmas, he will do all the last minute shopping that's required, organise decorations, do the required tidying up etc. We have family staying with us and he's spent the last week trying to work out how to sort out the strange smell in our guest bedroom which is something that would not even have crossed my mind until the day.

So in our case, no, Christmas is not women's work. but I can see how it would easily be seen as such as a lot of men do just kind of drift along.

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Katisha · 22/12/2010 15:39

..own devices ...

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