Science to the rescue.

Have a read here. Interesting stuff, picked up from a comment on yesterday’s post. Just the kind of stuff I was hoping to root out with the blog, and for two reasons. Firstly, it convinces me that men and women (on some issues at least) are, in spite of all the things we pretend to be in our brave new world, still looking at things from completely different perspectives. Secondly (and more importantly!) the article adds a good deal of weight to my argument about romance. The article headlines that ‘….the payoff for doing more chores could be more sex.’ This ‘finding’ isn’t news to us blokes, and I suspect not to women either. We all knew this before but what it does do is draw back a veil on a darker issue. You see, I think that this report is slightly out of date in that girls seemed to have ‘modified’ this position over the last couple of years, and very subtly too. It was a fact for some time that:

washing dishes + ironing = 0.8 sex
(please note that there was always some residual uncertainty here).

Now though, with the manipulation of romance into the equation we get:

washing dishes + ironing = romantic gesture

But there’s one more step before we get to the dark truth behind this. See, because you girls have drummed into men that it is their duty to be romantic then, substituting above we get:

washing dishes + ironing = duty


Clever stuff ladies, and kudos indeed, but we are on to you!!!