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Old and In the Way

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8. I don't know if there's a correlation here, but I'm pretty sure that the total time

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #7)

Tue Feb 21, 2012, 08:19 PM

Feb 2012

I spent on the job (in the plant or traveling on business) spiked during the years when my kids were between 3 and 5. One of life's strange coincidences, I'm sure.

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I think men should enter relationships assuming that women [View all] Bonobo Feb 2012 OP

You do? Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #1

That would be childish. The Doctor. Feb 2012 #2

I see I made my point well. Bonobo Feb 2012 #3

Well, I take it on a person-to-person basis. The Doctor. Feb 2012 #4

Let me just throw this out there, then, in the context of preconceived notions: Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #7

I don't know if there's a correlation here, but I'm pretty sure that the total time Old and In the Way Feb 2012 #8

I am not one to demand my dinner on the table Broderick Feb 2012 #5

Each marriage is a team. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2012 #6

That was one of the fundamental lies of paleo-feminism-- mistertrickster Feb 2012 #9

Hmmmm libodem Feb 2012 #10

Can't we have both? Can't people have the freedom to define their own roles AND decent pay/benefits? Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #11

Right, I don't believe it was a conspiracy. mistertrickster Feb 2012 #12

Doubling the size of the workforce drove the value of labor down. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2012 #13

And 200 years ago, most jobs involved farming. Things change. There have been tectonic shifts across Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #14