Strategies of Dish-washing

I found N and my brother-in-law in the living room sharing dish-washing strategies. The funny thing is that all four of us come from families where it would have never occurred to men to touch “women’s duties” irrespective of how well or whether they fulfilled “male duties.”

This is why I detest the attempts to position the division of housework as a feminist issue. Everybody lives in exactly the domestic arrangement they want. And those who think they don’t simply need to be honest with themselves and ask what benefits they derive from the current arrangement. I hate it when private domestic manipulations are used to empty feminism of all content. The public square is buried under miles of swamps of private concerns.