women mean yes when they say no, survey says

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ok, the survey doesn't really say that, but it nearly does, look:

\link{http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article359815.ece\women love housework really, apparently}

I don't know whether to
a) be angry that the indie would publish such obviously made-up and/or biased nonsense
b) be resigned that nothing has changed, at least in terms of the bias of the media (would anyone have even done a survey about how men feel about housework?)
c) watch discovery home and health to see if something about watching it turns you into a stepford wife.

what do you think?

am I the only one that gets annoyed about this kind of thing then?

Women think that housework is "mentally therapeutic" and gives them a "sense of empowerment"? What patronising crap.

From an angrily cursory glance it doesn't seem to have asked why it was women cleaning those houses. Sure, a messy house can be depressing. But that doesn't mean that someone with a Y chromosome's not capable of cleaning it.

"One-third of all women claimed "cleaning gives them more satisfaction than sex"."

This CANNOT be true!

Surely?

maybe a third of women have crap partners/husbands?

Clearly!

Its like a harry enfield joke, esp the bit about spending more time cleaning than on personal grooming. like we have nothing else to fill our silly little heads with.

Yes - time spent doing housework versus time spent on personal grooming. Not time spent on intellectual pursuits (sounds pompous, but you know what I mean). That couldn't give you a sense of empowerment could it? Grrr! "Women, know your limits".

phaaaa, housework is done out of necessity, tho sometimes if i'm in the mood i quite enjoy it (bit like sex really ) dh is more of a hygiene freak and enjoys doing the dishes, hoovering ironing but he draws the line at dusting, so is the article written by a male then??

What a stupid article.

The whole study is based on a sample of women who watch Discovery Home and Housework or whatever it's called and are motivated enough viewers to go to their website and fill in their silly survey.

And why didn't they include men?

And let's face it, if your wife prefers cleaning to sex, you are doing something so so wrong.

I have a friend like this! She freely admits she would never let her dh do the housework because he wouldn't do it right; he actually told her to calm it down cos her dd has bad asthma and he felt she was using too many cleaning products but she says she won't; she can't

all the time I'm there she's cleaning up after herself, she loves it

Okay, I couldn't even read it past the first column. What a patronising load of crap.

"No" has one meaning, and it means.... NO!

You'll all be glad to know that I am helping to bring down the time spent cleaning to time spent grooming ratio. (DH will confirm if you ask him)

I'm assuming this is lifted word-for-word from a press release by the TV channel, the clue being in "Dee Smith, executive producer of the channel's Cleanaholics series, believed that "cleaning was the new therapy"." (So the survey supports their new telly programme, imagine that).

The fact the indie would publish something with such an obvious bias is, as has been said, extremely poor.

Women like cleaning better than sex.... big deal...now if they'd said women like cleaning better than chocolate that would be signficant...

I love my house clean and tidy. It never is totally clean and tidy of course as I have 3 kids and an equally messy DH but I love it as clean and tidy as possible. And walking round a clean house does give me feeling of being in control and calm. However the actual doing of the housework is horrible and makes me feel anything but calm and in control.

My DH doesn't see the dirt. I wish I was more like him.

But of course I would never do my housework without my marigolds on. Imagine how terrible it would be if I damaged my nails whilst rearranging the ornaments or ironing the rug ....then I'd have to spend time re-doing them rather than bleaching my nets.... tut tut...

joel

I couldn't read past 'majority a sense of empowerment is a good go around the house with the vacuum cleaner'

ah yes of course... between a husband, 2 children and 5 days a week job I find scrubbing the house clean very empowering... NOT ...

on the other hand, coming home, bannishing kids to bed and dh to do the dishes whilst I sip a cuppa and watch some trashy tv... now we're talking