Also the definition of "ish" has a lot of wiggle room.
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This is why polyamory took off
I know it's a joke, but please hear me out... Just get roommates to share chores with.
The majority of people out there are not cut out to be poly.
IME, a significant amount of people are not cut out to be roommates, either. Including me, I've been a shitty roommate (I can't bring myself to clean regularly and I have severe insomnia) and the only thing that changed is that I live by myself now.
You don't need to fuck the other people to split costs and chores.
The majority of people I have known in poly relationships are not cut out to be poly.
This is why polygamy took off.
The difference? I personally haven't had any good experiences with any of these words
Polygamy = man has many wives
Polyamory = person has many partners
As i understand it, it’s all about how much misogyny is at play
a man with multiple wives is polygyny or a harem.
polygamy can be any gender, but if I were to guess, polygamy is one-to-many relationship (man with multiple wives, woman with multiple husbands), while polyamory is just a group of people all in a group relationship
I honestly see the appeal of it
Doesn't the amount of dishes just skyrocket tho
Yeah but that's why you get a partner who is good at dishes and doesn't mind doing them if you vacuum. You just happen to be better a vacuuming. It's the same idea that makes trading with other countries better than doing everything local.
I don't mind doing dishes, as long as those end up in the sink or colse to it. Don't make me clean those up across the home.
I have to always mop when it snows. And when i mow the lawn. So there is a sweet spot when there is no snow and no lawn mowing where i only mop once a week!
Its only staggering in the context of having to spend all of my free time and energy making money for someone else
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Remember housework used to be considered a job that needed a full time adult to attend to
Yes, back in the day when clothes were washed by vigorously rubbing them against a washboard, and then one-by-one cranking them through a wringer / mangle to dry them. Rugs were cleaned by taking them outside, hanging them on a line, and beating them with a carpet beater. Clothes were expensive, so any time they were damaged it was up to the wife to sew and mend them, and often she'd be sewing new ones too. Bread wasn't something you bought at the supermarket, it was something you made at home using basic ingredients like flour and water. Eggs came from a backyard chicken coop, and the wife had to feed the chickens too. And so on, and so on....
The 1950s and 60s had many of our modern conveniences and yet the standard was for 1 adult to handle the household
The 1950s are a really atypical time in history. The US was the victor in a world war, and the only country whose infrastructure didn't get absolutely smashed. Workers still had labour protections won during the great depression. And, full electrification with easily available electrical appliances was brand new.
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Restaurants and bakeries have existed for thousands of years. There was plenty of work a household had to do on their own, but plenty has also always been shared by the community at large. As the saying goes, "it takes a village to raise a child."
There were also generally more people in a household historically. And not just children who would be expected to help with the daily chores, but also grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces, etc. The nuclear family is a very recent and largely Western concept born during the 150 years or so.
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"I hate being a housewife. You cook, you clean, you do laundry, and then six months later you have to do it all again."
Joan Rivers
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I'm only able to keep up with it during my summer break from teaching. That said, I've told people that it's a matter of energy, not time*. I get my house spotless in two hours a week, but doing just one 90 minute lecture drains me to the point that the last thing I want to do is clean.
*Note: Folding clothes can fuck off, somehow that nonsense takes an hour with minimal impact on my home.
That's my issue. Our house isn't very big, just a smallish farmhouse. It doesn't take long to actually clean it. But after working full time as a truck driver, coming home and having to clean while I'm mentally exhausted from work is why our house looks like a pig ran amuck in it (we have pigs, they don't come inside the house often)
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