Oh, have I ever. It's a regular issue. If I ask him to help with a task that is small enough, he usually gets it done. He'll take out the trash, and pick up in the living room. And he does the cat litter without me asking every day. So that just leaves me with - everything else. It's like living with a teenager, and I…

Another commenter suggested it could just be that thing where everybody has their own level of "dirty" that they can accept. Unless it passes that threshold, he sees no need to clean. So maybe I just have a much lower tolerance for messes than he does.

Ah, that's a good point. I don't think he ever had to do much around the house, other than his own laundry and cooking his own snacks. I know part of the situation is my fault, too, because I've been cooking and cleaning ever since I was tall enough to help with those things, so I have a very particular way that I…

It was a serious recommendation. Read literally any book on the family in any culture other than WASPy America, and you will get your answer. Historians have been studying this for about thirty years now.

It isn't a stereotype when multiple studies have shown that most married men (with the exception of some like yourself) do not carry their weight around the house. Even when both parties are employed.

Sounds like you already know the answer to that question.

Uh...just look around you? I wasn't raised in a "traditional" family structure. Plenty of people weren't. It's not a new thing. The nuclear family setup was an invention of the 1950s, and limited to WASP America.

I feel the same way. I'm a hetero lady and I've been with my partner for six years now. Sometimes I have that nightmare, though, where he gets into a car accident or something and they won't let me be with him in the hospital because I'm "just" the girlfriend, not his wife.

I wonder where the disconnect is in these guys' heads. My boyfriend is among them, sadly. In most respects he's as feminist as I am- pro-choice, pro equal pay, and he gets even more upset than I do when he hears about terrible things happening to women. He's supportive and generally awesome. BUT. I do almost all of…

So glad to hear that, thanks for the update. I feel so bad for her :(

Aw, this is so sweet! I never had a dad, not really. Mine was an alcoholic, abusive criminal, and I haven't seen or talked to him in more than 12 years. So naturally sometimes I wonder what the whole "dad" thing is about. It sounds pretty awesome.

Definitely! My first thought on reading that was "Well, who doesn't think that?"

Not really. Here's the difference- while he is lying on his back, look at his eyes, his facial expression and his body language. He is happy and confident. Now look at some ads with women in that same position. They look shy, sad, or vulnerable. Not the same thing.

OMG that commercial! The first time I saw that I blushed. Now I just giggle incessantly. I pray it never comes on while I'm in the same room with my grandparents, or something.

I bet they do. I had my abortion in Michigan, which has similar laws- doctors there are required to hand out a large (15-20 pages) packet of misinformation, complete with some very disturbing doctored images of fetuses. Like, the fetuses have little faces. The kind ladies at Planned Parenthood gave me the packet and…

Is she? I don't know all the specifics, but wasn't her mother Dornish? And I'm not sure but I heard someone else mention that her people came to Westeros like 300 years ago, which isn't that far removed, really.

What!? No!!! Dorne is my favorite :( I think it's just a rumor though, otherwise how will they deal with Myrcella, or have the fight after Joffrey's wedding, or do anything cool?

There's one thing that complicates the image of Dany as the "white savior." You'll notice she speaks their language, Old Valyrian. That's because the places she's traveling to now are the places that her own family was originally from. She's not the same color as they are, but she's not the same ethnicity as the…

It's one of those things that happens, although I don't think there have been any studies done to see how often it really happens. Meanwhile, there have been studies of all the times that men sabotage women's birth control, a practice which is pretty solidly linked with domestic abuse.

If men don't want to be a father, it is super easy. Wear a condom. Be responsible, ask the lady involved if she's on the pill or other bc. If both of those fail and they wind up "forced" into fatherhood, sure I'll feel a little sympathy for them. But really, if both parties are responsible, the odds of an unplanned…