Cooking and cleaning are men's roles

Contrary to popular myth, women are not best suited for cooking and cleaning. Cooking and cleaning are both mundane, repetitive tasks based on memorization and repetition, and make entire use of the left-brain. Men as a rule, have a stronger left-brain disposition than women do, while women have a stronger right-brain disposition, therefore tasks like this are much more suited to men. Women would be more suited for right-brain tasks, like decorating, writing, playing music, etc

Plus women who spend most their time cooking, cleaning, or doing mundane monotonous work usually end up looking and acting too much like men, which is a turn off. I mean, how many women fast food workers look or act anything like Maxim models, for example?

Men should do housework and women should do artistic and sexy things that highlight their attractive qualities. The last thing I'd want to do is marry a dyk-ish short-tempered woman who spends most her time doing boring crap like cooking and cleaning and constantly looks like a mess.

 

Cooking also requieres creative abilities And cooking is not so mundane.

 

Depends - cooking creatively (like decorating a cake) uses the right brain - but just cooking the same stuff day in and day out to feed the family (ex. Hamburger Helper, frozen enchiladas, etc) is totally mundane.

 

I do most of the cooking, and we both do an equal amount of cleaning. It usually just depends on what our schedules look like. But of course, I get stuck with most of 'man tasks', such as making repairs and lifting heavy stuff. ... oh, and shoveling over most of my money.

 

It's an interesting theory, but I'm not seeing the political angle.

 

I am an excellent cook, much better than my wife although she is getting much better now that she has decided to actually LISTEN to me. The dishes? That's why you have kids.

 

You forgot taking out the garbage...LOL

 

While there do seem to be a lot of gender tendencies, it's hard to separate what's inherent and what's learned, especially given that tendencies seem to be all there is. As far as I can tell, there are no rules about what role any gender is supposed to play in a particular circumstance, including cooking.

 

Why do you keep putting everyone into groups, collectivist?

 

Sounds like you know what you're talking about I think she's taken out the trash 10 times max, in our nearly 5 years together.

 

Well there you go, that's not food that's pre-packaged crap. Cooking from scratch requires attention,creativity and is work. You can't drone when you cook from scratch. Maybe the right side gets used more if the cooking is more challenging.

 

Reheating frozen prepackaged food is not cooking.

I like to cook, I've always liked to cook and I'm good at it. Preparing a wholesome (not prepackaged sh!t), delicious meal is quite an art and relies on planning.

Cooking begins at the fresh produce market not at the frozen food section of the supermarket.

 

I'm well aware of that yeah - most parents unfortunately don't take the time to cook their children a wholesome meal.

 

LOL, I think this might be the most sexist thing ever posted for a stay at home mom.

I'm pretty sure managing a household is more in the lines of multi-tasking.

 

As a chef, am offending by anyone who considers cooking to be mundane. Cooking is an art. It is taking different ingredients that, by themselves, can be bland, and turning them into something beautiful and delicious.

 

I am a stay at home dad with triplets, one with CP. I am the only cook and cleaner of this house. My wife makes enough money to support our home. But only when I cook dinner and clean the house before she gets home.

I am considered to be a great dad, a great cook and a hard worker.

If you are assigning house chores to a certain person, you are the same kind of wrong that has been wrong with our country for decades. "I shouldn't have to do that, it's below me".

 

We really dodged a bullet there then!

 

lol

 

I'm a chef too, I cook for myself because it's healthier and funner. However it's pretty obvious that the average family just throws together whatever they can find, so yes it is mundane.

 

No she can stay at home all she wants, I just don't want her doing anymore housework than absolutely necessary - don't want her looking like a mess, being grumpy, and being too tired for for sex when I come home - so if that means I'll be doing a few more chores, then so be it. I want my woman sexy at all times.

It's unsexy.

 

I'm going by reality - there's exceptions, but exceptions don't make the rule. Men and women's brains are wired differently. Take computer programming or engineering for example - extremely left-brained occupations - sure there's some women who do em, but the vast majority of people in those occupations are going to be men. Just a fact.

So even though tasks like that in the past got relegated to "women's roles", they aren't the best tasks for women's brain wiring, and women who end up spending most of their time doing housework, cooking, cleaning - etc don't really get to express themselves in the way that's best for their gender.

I'd say as a rule, women are definitely better with kids - but stuff like doing routine chores are definitely not best suited for women's brain wiring - they're more suited for male brain wiring. Women need more time to just be women.

 

If she's good enough in the sack, I agree.

 

Oh sweet joyous irony, you coat Network Citizen's post with your thick lush substance...

 

Women have a nesting instinct though. That's why they are so good at cleaning and making me sandwiches.

 

There are many types of people, and everyone has different DNA. In my opinion, this part is a matter of education, and every human being has the potential and ability to do both exceptionally well.