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ddvmor


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...apparently. And the makers of this TV programme think they can prove it. Or something.

Women leave town and children in hands of men
TORONTO (Reuters) - What would happen if all the women were to disappear from a town, leaving the men to not only work, but also take care of the family and the home?

"It will be a disaster, a complete disaster," said Kelly Weatherly, who was sent off for a week at a resort, along with almost all the women in her community of 760, leaving the town and its children in the hands of the men.

The exodus was part of a social experiment filmed for Canada's national broadcaster, the CBC. Touted as an exploration of gender issues in contemporary Canadian culture, "The Week the Women Went" is based on a BBC program by the same name.

Recent government statistics show that 70 percent of Canadian households are run by women. The majority of these women also hold full-time jobs.

In Hardisty, an oil-patch town in the prairie province of Alberta where the program was shot, many of the men work away from home for days at a time.

"They don't get to hang out with Daddy," said stay-at-home mother Heather Miller of her two young sons in the first episode. "I don't even know if he's had them for a whole day."

While Miller worried about her husband Dustin's ability to cope without her, he didn't share her concern.

"Two people to take care of, both under the age of five," he said. "How hard can it be?"
There's a bunch of other guff in the article but it's not enormously interesting. But here's the terribly important question - how would you girls do without your blokes? And blokes... how would you do without your lovely ladies?

Personally, I'm not convinced that it would make a significant difference either way. I'm mostly hoping that this thread will degenerate into a boys vs girls slanging match with lots of mention of parking skills and handbags and so on! biggrin.gif

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I dont think it matters much either way but I do get a lot of occasions when women at work have to 'rush off' early because of some crisis or another - leaving the business in the hands of their colleagues - is that masterful planning? is that prioritisation? does equality state that I need to promote women equally unless of course little johnny hurts his army warmy at school in which case the women aren't 'equal' any more they are in fact more than equal because they can just swan off from work and leave the rest of us in the crap?

If this programme had been made the other way round - it would have been branded sexist and not shown.

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ddvmor wrote:
There's a bunch of other guff in the article but it's not enormously interesting. But here's the terribly important question - how would you girls do without your blokes? And blokes... how would you do without your lovely ladies?

I'm probably the wrong one to ask for an objective opinion right now...Ben



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JonnyStead wrote:

I dont think it matters much either way but I do get a lot of occasions when women at work have to 'rush off' early because of some crisis or another - leaving the business in the hands of their colleagues - is that masterful planning? is that prioritisation? does equality state that I need to promote women equally unless of course little johnny hurts his army warmy at school in which case the women aren't 'equal' any more they are in fact more than equal because they can just swan off from work and leave the rest of us in the crap?

When I get a call from the school about little Johnny's army warmy I get straight on the phone to the other half and tell him "You've got the laptop, you work from home".  Sounds like equality to me! biggrin.gif



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ddvmor


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I'm probably the wrong one to ask for an objective opinion right now...Ben


Who wants objective? biggrin.gif Seriously though, I was in the same position a few years ago and frankly found that the absence of a girl around the house made my day to day life an awful lot simpler (although I suspect that was less to do with her being a girl and more to do with simply having to plan around and deal with another person all the time)!

That said, it's quite nice having the lovely Catfish cleaning up after me every day. Her being a hot chick is like the icing on the cake. Now where's that cherry...? wink.gif

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When I get a call from the school about little Johnny's army warmy I get straight on the phone to the other half and tell him "You've got the laptop, you work from home".  Sounds like equality to me! biggrin.gif


Why wouldn't you just say to the caller - 'I don't have any children called Johnny. What sort of idiot are you?'

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That said, it's quite nice having the lovely Catfish cleaning up after me every day. Her being a hot chick is like the icing on the cake. Now where's that cherry...? wink.gif
Heh!  I'm most flattered but unfortunately my cherry is long gone biggrin




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If I were to disappear for awhile, I'm fairly sure that when I came back Kevin would be in a sugar coma because all he seems capable of eating when I'm not around is sweets/pies/cakes/ice cream. Sean would more than likely be naked, or in whatever clothing I left him in, the litter boxes would be toxic, and the house would be a nightmare.

I was in the hospital for several days the friday-monday before New years and that's more or less what was starting to happen around here. The only saving grace was that Sean was with the grandparents and Kevin took most meals at the hospital so I could remind him that eating a cheesecake was not a sensible dietary choice. I came home to a disaster area though.

He's great with household/food/child things so long as someone's around to gently remind him about it, but all of these things become invisible to him if left to his own devices.



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