Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consiste…

Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. ✨ Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier, McGraw-Hill Companies
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