Daily Intelligencer's Jonathan Chait has a good response to the perennially thorny question of why men spend less time cleaning in heterosexual couples. His easy answer to one of the last battles of the "feminist frontier": lower your standards of cleanliness, ladies. While there's a lot of legitimate complaining about husbands who do less housework, he might be on to something.
There is a drawer in my family's kitchen we call "the junk drawer." You probably have one too: It's the place you can always find random batteries, soy sauce packets, loose bits of string, and the spare keys to long-lost padlocks. Since it is connected to the kitchen island where our family of five eats, does homework, and pays bills, it is often the receptacle where we sweep all the clutter that accumulates after a week of neglect. For a long time it weighed on me, this literal manifestation of my inability to "get my home under control." My husband also works full time and has never cared as much about cleaning as I did. We don't have legions of housekeepers, so when we had our third kid and I took a leadership role at work, we had to decide if we were going to let the tidal wave of domestic disorder bother us enough to spend our precious free time vacuuming. I stopped cleaning very often and what had been a black, messy spot on my domestic conscience spread to every surface, room and closet — in effect, our whole home became "the junk drawer."
Via: How I Learned to Start Leaning, Stop Cleaning
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