to be a bit sickened by the apparent 'feminism' under study in the Women documentary?

[mrsbean78]

Dad staying at home to care for kids = househusband
Mum staying at home to care for kids =
full time mum

Each man challenged about how much housework he does, yet "househusband" also challenged about how well he does the housework by a wife who is irritated that he shrinks her cashmere jumpers and doesn't clean the bins, when clearly, as she says, she couldn't be expected to work and do housework.

All participants apparently comfortably well off enough to make the 'choice' about who works and who doesn't, living in beautiful leafy-suburb/rural pad type homes.

I don't feel it is at all representative of my life and am finding it terribly patronising to the men, don't know how others feel?

< I agree that we need to think in wider terms than capitalism V communism, and remember that both these models have always played out in the wider context of patriarchy and the seemingly inevitable human (or possibly patriarchal) inability to resist power through corruption. >

Beachcomber, I want to sit at your feet, eating figs and bathing in your wisdom.

Um, that's nice. Are you taking the piss out of me? Ok if you are, it is why I joined the wanker's thread.