The Politics of Housework informed me that splitting household chores ‘evenly’ between hetereseoxual couples seems to have been a feud that has been going on for centuries and not just in my childhood home.

“There is a taboo that says women mustn’ t strain themselves in the presence of men-we haul around 50 pounds of groceries if we have to but aren’t allowed to open a jar if there is someone around to do it for us.” This specific quote made me think back to one of the previous articles that mentioned why men hold doors open for women. (I cannot recall the title at this time.) But it also made me realize why I’m so uncomfortable when men do things for me I didn’t ask for, especially strangers. I think I’m fine when my friends do it but when it’s a random stranger (and I get it’s meant to be polite chivalry blah blah) I feel like I owe them a thank you, like if I didn’t I would be considered rude automatically.

The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm was very informative to me also, but when I informed my mother of it she merely rolled her eyes at me and I was reminded that (most) old people don’t like to listen to ‘new information’ because ‘it wasn’t that way when I was young.’ I digress, but the fact that female anatomy has been so misunderstood by men for so long that even the most common sex position is one where the woman actually doesn’t gain pleasure really made me sit back and think. I didn’t even know that “the degree of insensitivity inside the vagina is so high that ‘Among the women who were tested in our gynecologic sample, less than 14% were at all conscious that they had been touched.” Or even when it went into greater detail about vaginas not needing anesthesia during surgery, that was scary almost.