An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
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IMDB rating: 6.10 Plot: Widow Maria Bassett (Helene Joy) and her 3 children have met hard times on their farm, it is especially apparent when it is not even a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner afford. Oldest daughter Tilly (Tatiana Maslany) writes rich and estranged mother of Mary Isabella (Jacqueline Bisset), exaggerating their situation in a long letter. Isabella is offering the farm to help her and finds a soulmate in Tilly. However, Mary tries to help her mother angry, they made their financial problems. |
Actors: Atherton Ted,Barbuto Michael,Munroe Gage,Turner Kristopher,Drama,
Why are (most) men so lazy around the house?
my mom’s husband (of one year) does nothing…absolutley nothing when it comes to housework. my mom is always the one cleaning and cooking (and serving him). as you know it’s thanksgiving and my mom had been cooking and cleaning the house since yesterday. multiple times I’ve offered to help. not once did I hear her husband offer to help out with anything. and now my mom and I have been in the kitchen cleaning everything up for the past two hours and all her husband has done is sit on his *ss and watch tv. I wanted to say something to him but I didn’t because I knew something disrespectful would come out of my mouth. it just irritates me so much that he does nothing around the house. ever. I don’t know if he’s lazy or old fashioned (thinks that women should cook and clean) or if it’s both. my mom always gets mad at me if I don’t clean but never asks him to clean up around the house. and the same thing goes for my sisters husband and many other men I’ve come into contact with. I don’t understand this. he knows my mom is tired…he even said it….and he just sits around and watches tv. I’ve even expressed to my mom how I feel about the fact that she never asks him to help but I don’t think she ever said anything to him about it. I can’t imagine how my mom would want to deal with cleaning up after him and cooking for him and serving him all the time. I don’t think she enjoys it either but just won’t say anything to him. and it’s not like my mom doesn’t work. she works just as many hours as she he does if not more.
I don’t know if I want to be married to a man that doesn’t offer to help out around the house. I know not all men are like that but I’ve had the same experience of it and it just makes me not want to be married.
Because the wives let them get away with it.
Suzie Homemaker | Nov 26, 2009
Solution: don’t marry a real man…marry a pansy one that does all his work and half of yours….
Spiraled Out | Nov 26, 2009
All I can say is I feel sorry for your mom. She should have looked for a man who could afford to hire a maid.
Above Normal | Nov 26, 2009
Housework isn’t much fun for men, but perhaps it is because 60 or so years ago most women didn’t work, and since the husband was paying the bills, it seemed natural that the women should do the work at home. I suppose it should be different today if the woman is working, but men still think of housework as women’s work. After all, they watched their mother do it.
Linda M | Nov 26, 2009
cuz women do the house work n guys bring n the bank.
Ace of Clubs | Nov 26, 2009
Yes honey, they are lazy a$$e$. they only do things if it benefits them. My boyfriend does the outside work and I do the inside of the house. he does help when I need it, but he refuses to do the dishes. and I refuse to let him wash the laundry. I do know many men who help their wives/girlfriends with the housework. all is not lost. some do help. just make sure you find one that will.
Brenda | Nov 26, 2009
Caveman complex. We hunt you protect the cave mentality.
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Don Juan DeMarco | Nov 26, 2009
Since men are often the one that work outside the home and/or work more hours than their wives (when two people are working) it is only fair that women do more housework. It’s not lazy, it’s just fair. Only whiny women with the entitlement mentality have a problem with that,
Gun Fanatic | Nov 26, 2009
Mr. Perfect is never lazy around the house. He can do the chores better than a housewife can do it and do it with relative ease. He can wrestle a 60-minute match with Nick Bockwinkle for the AWA Championship in a grueling, bloodsoaked match but he can be home in time to do the laundry and make a sandwich. And I might add, take the kids to school and still have enough time to watch the Monday Night Football Game.
The Perfect Y!A User | Nov 26, 2009
Your mom’s hubby sounds like a spoiled brat. Sorry. Maybe it’s his ego? My mom does most of the work around the house but my dad helps a lot.
Shan | Nov 27, 2009
I’m not a pig. When I was living alone, the house would be spotless with everything in it’s place. But, with a woman in the house. The house becomes a mess daily. Then, the house has to be cleaned daily… and on her terms… when she wants it done!
So, if I don’t help at the exact moment when she feels the need to clean. I get blamed for not helping with the household chores.
WaldoBC | Nov 27, 2009
So since your mom’s husband just sits around the house in your experience that makes most men lazy around the house? So I guess all of the yardwork and housework that I do and that all of my neighborhood friends do for our families counts for nothing then? You do know about differences in culture, right? I have heard plenty about the laziness of a lot of black men, and the unemployment numbers show it as well, so maybe your problem isn’t a gender issue but one of a culture, and that’s your problem to fix, not mine. I work enough long hours without having to listen to bigots like you.
THE FiTZ! | Nov 27, 2009
Maybe he is tired from working all day to support you useless cunts.
Do you see your (step)father asking the women in the house to help with his job? They only thing you are proving is that women are absolutely useless.
In a silent way | Nov 27, 2009
It comes down to the same reason most women still believe men should be working the dangerous, dirty, physical jobs around the house and in society in general: old gender roles that are hard to get rid of. I don’t really think you can judge a whole gender based off the actions of a few, if you can do that I have a LOT of questions about women I need answered.
Colonel Reb | Nov 27, 2009
I would not say most of us are like that and if you needed help why didn’t you just ask instead of expecting him to automatically know. Do not base all or most men off of a bad example.
????? Alex | Nov 27, 2009
It is in their genes! Either that or they have that belief that women belong in the kitchen carried over from back in the day when it was only the women cooking, cleaning, etc. and not the men.
Also could be poor training when they once lived at home!
julesrules | Nov 27, 2009
Yeah that’s true. I just don’t think men care about household chores nearly as much as women. We can live fairly happily in an unkept home. Whereas women will have insomnia if the dishes aren’t done.
Anyway, when something serious and dangerous happens and brave action is required, then whose letting who take care of it?
I dunno b/c haha LOL! | Nov 27, 2009