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- crazyjake, on 08/29/2008, -3/+206I'd totally be a househusband! i could chill at home and work on making secret passages around the house, and fortifying the zombie defense systems.
- DesolataX, on 08/29/2008, -6/+152Women love Irony... Oh wait, thats Ironing.
- Tanktunker, on 08/28/2008, -17/+161Do something with your life.
Get me a beer.
Haha, look at me guys I'm being ironic on the internets. - pinkgreenblue, on 08/29/2008, -0/+75Dugg for understanding the importance of ZDSes in today's chaotic world.
- Sraza, on 08/28/2008, -6/+72The option "Listens to what I say" would be more accurate as "Does what I tell them to do."
- InfiniteNothing, on 08/29/2008, -3/+62Spoken like a true rapist!
- Iatethecrayon, on 08/29/2008, -3/+49The only thing that bothers me about this is someone allowing themselves to depend on another person for monetary support. I would never ever put myself in a situation where I would want someone else to provide me with financial stability. It's not even a feminist thing, it's just common sense. At least have a skill set that could get you a job in case of an emergency.
What if your partner was hurt on the job, unable to work, leaves you, loses his job, or dies? You'd be so screwed... - jlpete9, on 08/28/2008, -6/+46Gardening?? Proof this survey is fundamentally flawed.
- drguerra, on 08/29/2008, -26/+64Weak men want weak submissive housewives. I'd prefer a strong willed, intelligent wife with ambition, not just a pushover housewife.
There is nothing wrong with being a housewife, but this article is ridiculous. - minnymoo, on 08/28/2008, -1/+36Good one! *slaps ass
- carlieq25, on 08/29/2008, -2/+36I like to think I'm a strong-willed, intelligent wife with ambition - who is also a housewife. Putting my dreams, career, and education on hold so that I can raise my children without putting them in the care of strangers. I may have misunderstood you, but were you saying that all housewives are pushovers? Or just that you would prefer a wife who wasn't a pushover even if she stayed at home?
- TreatsTheBear, on 08/29/2008, -1/+34Why does anybody read the daily mail?
- antonio97b, on 08/29/2008, -0/+32ironicly, I see no irony.
- thestranger, on 08/29/2008, -3/+33Do something with your life.
Iron my suit.
there's something kind of irony. - inactive, on 08/29/2008, -0/+28To be fair, Cyrus, you can find soulless and repetitive work that goes unappreciated in every office building.
- roomforpanic, on 08/29/2008, -0/+28I know a guy who is a househusband. He lives to mow lawns. Anyone's lawn, if it needs to be mowed, he will do it. He's a really relaxed guy.
- pixelfishfood, on 08/29/2008, -1/+28"But it seems the fairer sex has all but abandoned the struggle. According to research published today, most men want a traditional wife – and women are often only too happy to oblige."
This conclusion does not follow from the survey. According to the survey, men value women who take care of the house, etc. That doesn't mean that they want them to stop working. Most women both work and take care of the house. Nowhere in the survey results does it say that women want to stop working either. - superherogirl, on 08/29/2008, -1/+26the wife would have to become a drug dealer to support herself and her family...
- ninjarabbits, on 08/28/2008, -6/+30At first I didn't understand why Gardening was on that list, then I thought about all the sexual innuendo that it implies and wondered why it only garnered 25%.
- Cyrus042, on 08/29/2008, -2/+26I don't see how one could gather that women are "happy to be housewives" because they desire financial stability in a man (or want them to garden). I'm sure most women assume that first, they're not likely to make as much as men financially, and second, they'll likely be more constrained to home because of children (biologically, assuming breastfed). Due to this, many look for financial stability in men, who don't have either problem.
However that doesn't mean that they ONLY want to be a housewife, these are just contemporary realities that many women have accepted. (because if they do want a career they end up having to take care of the house full time and work full time) How many of the women in the study desired a part / full time career assuming it was feasible? (I.e. balancing children, living responsibilities with their husband)
Further, cleaning up after yourself, or cooking aren't metrosexual qualities for men. They're realities that any man who has lived on their own has to deal with and it shouldn't end when you're married / living with your girlfriend. Women shouldn't have to completely be homemakers unless that's truly what they desire and too many times they're relegated to that role because men's expectations and irresponsibility at home. They're your wife, not your mom.
The 50s were lame, and this article is lame. - georgemason01, on 08/29/2008, -2/+24He's just trying to sound like a progressive so he can get laid.
- SyntraFTW, on 08/29/2008, -2/+24Gardening came out of nowhere!
EDIT: Totally didn't realize I was like the twelfth person to mention Gardening, sorry guys. - greenpushpins, on 08/29/2008, -7/+28I think when they said Gardening, they meant mowing the lawn and such. I love the 50s! I'm so domestic, I would've loved to have lived in the 50s. Oh and to have been white. I don't think it would've been as great if I were Chinese.
- superherogirl, on 08/29/2008, -9/+30funny, those are the qualities id desire in a slave.... hmm.
- thestranger, on 08/29/2008, -0/+20The ladies love a well kept lawn.
That's how I pick up women.
"hey girl, buy you a drink I am really good at planting stuff... and kinda good putting my kids first" - Babazoz, on 08/29/2008, -1/+21Jim Goad summed this up better than anyone in this context:
1. Women wanted men to be more sensitive.
2. Men became more sensitive.
3. Women became lesbians.
I think the real rule of thumb here is "Don't be an *****, but don't be a doormat, either." - archer104, on 08/29/2008, -0/+18That's fine but what's with the preoccupation with being equal? If I worked my ass off and my wife stayed home and took care of the house and raised the kids I would NEVER consider myself to be above her. People put down being a housewife but I think that it is the most important job. I mean I could be killed and replaced easily but if the housewife/mother dies it changes everything.
- Kcaj, on 08/29/2008, -0/+18This is the problem a lot of guys contend with. How can you tell the difference between a girl who wouldn't *mind* becoming your dependant, and a girl who NEEDS to become your dependant, unable to survive on your own? How can girls tell the guys who want them to become their dependants because they generally care for them, but don't NEED them to become their dependants as a evolutionary fail-safe to ensure reproduction?
The complexities of the situation are very deep in today's society and the answers are not black and white or very simple to understand. Family systems have been slowly dying down to one-generation make-shift agreements rather than multi-cultural alliances and deeply rooted communities. Would you rather see three children raised under the care of FOUR grandparents, FOUR parents, and multiple blood uncles, aunts, cousins, etc., or three children raised entirely by a single working mother with a (for any reason) absent father, with neither second-generation's parental structure and family system available?
The world as it is, and the world as it should be, are two very different places. - wishninja, on 08/29/2008, -5/+23Your point is a woman that wants to be a housewife must be stupid? I hope I am reading it wrong.
- archer104, on 08/29/2008, -6/+24On the flipside would you want a stubborn bitch who won't listen to reason?
- sockpuppets, on 08/29/2008, -3/+20He's right though. Too many women I know have admitted it. It's what leads a lot of women into hot/aggressive sex with a guy, only to feel used the next morning and pressing rape charges. I'm not saying this is the case with all rape cases, but certainly with many date rape cases. Women, if with an ultimately trustworthy, decent guy that they're attracted to want to be "taken."
- 4321234, on 08/29/2008, -0/+16You know. Irony. It's like rain on your wedding day.
- mhuggins, on 08/29/2008, -0/+15Also, can you guys believe gardening made the list?
- nesstheking1, on 08/29/2008, -3/+17I want to be a housewife!
Easy living ftw - e_mnc, on 08/29/2008, -4/+17I don't agree!!!! My wife earns more money than myself and I don't mind doing housework when I get home from work and she is still working. I would greatly consider we are equals.
- york2600, on 08/29/2008, -0/+13My girlfriend has a Masters degree and likes to cook / clean. She's not dumb. There are plenty of working women with less brain power than her.
- doom777, on 08/29/2008, -2/+15LOL. Seriously, I laughed out loud.
- mlwarrior, on 08/29/2008, -2/+15This title is nonsense.
- 4321234, on 08/29/2008, -0/+13Retrosexual?? Oh, well. I guess you can't have too many sexuals.
- Cyrus042, on 08/29/2008, -6/+19It's not easy. It's soulless and repetitive work that nearly always go unappreciated.
- redneckblues, on 08/29/2008, -1/+14Gotta be good at spreading your seed.
- sockpuppets, on 08/29/2008, -0/+13I named my iron Irony.
- zombies187, on 08/29/2008, -6/+18"Weak men want weak submissive housewives."
You nailed it. Notice how popular submissive housewives are and you can see the weakness of men. - Peko, on 08/29/2008, -1/+13I'm liking your trolling but I'm thinking that the CIA must have also invented a time machine because of, oh, women's suffrage.
Google it. (either CIA time machine or suffrage. up to you) - sockpuppets, on 08/29/2008, -3/+15Dude that was my ass.
- SyntraFTW, on 08/29/2008, -0/+11Block'd. I don't approve of racism.
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -1/+12I'm going to give you some free advice while you're here - since you just spilled your guts on a public forum, I can assume that this is really getting to you.
1. How have you stayed with her this long if it's so intolerable?
2. If you want to stay with her, you can try picking up a hobby, or getting some friends. You don't have to spend all your time either with her or home alone.
3. Failing that, there really has to be a sizable change. You want to hang out with your girlfriend and she's got no time for you; talk to her about it. That change might be unpleasant for her, like giving up part of the work she loves, or unpleasant for you, like giving up the girl you like, but someone's gotta break out of it. Have you considered how she feels about the situation? - DrJG, on 08/29/2008, -0/+11First, home gardening is far more important in England, or all of Britain, and generally in Europe - in fact in Germany they rent out plots outside the city so people from city could go tend to their own gardens on weekends, and it is a very very serious, very popular activity. So that was not surprising.
Europe still values activities of even business, let alone home or personal pleasure like gardening, to be small scale. It is surprising how many US guys constantly think along the lines of "if a big corp cannot do it for profit it is no use, and cannot exist" as I see on this site on various issues.
It is not just gardening, it is other qualities and values implied - neatness, willing to put in work hours for home, growth of life (gardening now, children later, and a good way to associate the two, for health of mind and body). Shows intelligence innate in women that use this criteria even subconsciously. - OwlFlavored, on 08/29/2008, -0/+11You're kidding? A great number of people follow social traditions, while there are a few outliers that have less traditional families? GET THIS TO THE FRONT PAGE AT ONCE!
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