Should women be allowed to do everything men do?

[Hullygully]

Talk to me about equality.

Under Apartheid it was called separate development eldritch. But that wasn't sinister. It was just playing to people's strengths...

Separate but equal Eldritch and it was US, segregation era.

And it's not generational, necessarily. My mum was born in 1949 but she spends most of her life drilling holes in stuff with her Bosch cordless, stomping around the moors, and owning her own business.

She gave me Our Bodies, Ourselves to read when I could only look at the pictures.

I had many, many embarrassing questions for our teenaged babysitters.

I am a teeny 5'3" weakling but I am really good at opening jars. I can open stuff much better than DP. (I think maybe flute playing has given me really strong hands)

Also, I agree in equality and feminism and that.

But mainly I just wanted to mention how good I am at opening jars

Can I just say, a propos the Other Thread Which Started This Thread (RIP) as it has been bugging me all day.

I cannot imagine anything more tragic than a husband and wife getting into a car and driving an hour and a half to watch a stripper together. And then driving back. It's verging on Mike Leigh-esque in its quiet poignancy.

Ahh, but you only think that because you're a prude, and watching stripping is inexplicably popular 'alternative' and dated avant-garde.

Yes Malenky.
You must be frigid Tondelayo .

It might be because we're man-hating lesbians, too. That'd give us extra reason not to be turned on by the healthy spectacle of naked women, unlike fine upstanding straight wives of pervy wankers, who are naturally raring to go at the flash of a boob.

I was hurt that it was specified that the ladies were attractive.

Where does that leave those of us with stomach-churning deformities?

Catering for a niche market, I suppose. I hear there are internet forums for that kind of thing.

I think women should not be allowed to do housework.

To stand up in public transport, wait in queues, lift heavy loads.

They're edgy and risqué, innit. And they swing, which also edgy and risqué.

We are mean wimmin who are ruining it for menz and wifeys who want to spice up their love lives try to pick up swingers on a parenting forum.

I don't know about you, but I fucking hate me right now.

I think you mean 'the wife', sheshelob. That's also modern, edgy terminology.

I did actually go with dh (pre dhness) to every single bar in pat pong to see the Thai spectaculars. It was literally astonishing. The best bit were the sex shows where the man and woman/ woman and woman contorted themselves with the most bored faces ever and chatted amongst themselves.

It was very interesting and I would never feel the need to go to anything ever again.

Also, if she can't drive how do they resolve the car keys in a bowl issue? I would have thought sexually adventurous modern women would at least have a moped.

What a bunch of jealous wimmin on here

I'm imagining a shopping trolley he nicked from Asda, with a pole to punt it with. The pole no doubt comes in handy, as does the shopping trolley.

Modern, that.

I suspect in this case, tonde, she resolves it by not being real.

Unless his left hand is called The Wife.

And I thought I found the prospect of stripping faintly distasteful.

Of course she's real, in his head she's the perfect fantasy woman.
Sixteen when they got together, a perfect mother who loves to SAH, and accompanies him to strip shows and enjoys swinging, while bringing up twins and another child.

What's not to like?

Ah, see I was picturing her as an impressive career woman while the OP stays home with the children (having given up his high-powered job). That'll be why the OP is on a parenting site, natch. In case you thought it looked odd at all.

I think OP thinks "parenting" is like "dogging" - a normal word that

Fat fingers!!

A normal word that is used as code for something pervy.

My fat fingers killed the thread.

Pmsl at 'you guys'
sheshelob is my new girl crush, she has made me think about role reversal, and is rather funny.

In response to OP, I can't think of anything. Not a thing.