Dec 31 2008
For the love of housework
What is it with the advertisers tryng to get women to fall back in love with housework, literally. First it was the swiffer ‘Baby, Come Back‘ advertisements which seemed to suggest what the bored married women needs is to leave her old mop for a new toy boy swiffer. Now I see a dish detergent sold with a sponge saying, in Lothario tones, that what he loves most about a woman is her hands (how many fetishes do you see there?)
Research last year suggested that when a husband does more housework, the couple have more sex. This suggests to me that what is sexy is either a man with a mop, or a woman on the couch with her feet up, drinking a beer. But maybe that is just me. If yuou think a man doing housework is unlikely, you have no idea what my apartment looks like.
Me falling in love with cleaning up? I’ll believe that when mops and sponges actually do start to talk.
I’ll believe it when I hear of a bloke that cleans the toilet AND opens the window or deodorizes after use AND puts the seat back down.
I fear I have a long wait.
PS Are you UK by origin - from where? Or did you just spend some time here?