For ages, men have gone out, hunted, dug the caves to live in, and provided protection. In return, women have always taken care of the children and maintained the homestead. Both jobs are equally important. If the man hadn’t provided the home for the food, the woman would have no place to cook it. It's like a trade-off, because if the woman didn’t cook, the man would starve; thus, she would no longer have a place to live, nor protection against God knows what.

Women having jobs is not the problem, but when a man and a woman become parents, they gain their true purpose in life: to raise their child to the best of their ability. What I do have a problem with is people pawning their children off at day care, because that's more of a hassle to the parents than a blessing. No wonder society is so messed up--we’ve got STRANGERS RAISING OUR KIDS!

It has been psychologically proven that mothers are instinctive nurturers. By that, I mean that it is their responsibility to take care of and raise the children. It does take two parents to make a successful household, but the father is supposed to be the playmate and enforcer of rules. Maintaining order and stability, of all sorts, is his job, while you, Mother, are the oil to make sure it runs smoothly.

You do this by making sure that the house is clean, so he has something to come home to and appreciate and remember what he busts his ass every day for. The kids should be in a good mood and not fighting, because the last thing he wants is a ruckus after the headache he’s had all day. He’s probably hungry too, and to have food ready when he gets home shows him how much you love him and appreciate all the hard work he does for you.

Guy; Graphic by Andrew Allen

These simple tasks are not a man’s responsibility. In fact, he is out probably having a much worse and stressful day than you are having. When he comes home, it is NOT the time to abuse his senses with your menial discomforts. He just had a whole day of providing for you and the last thing he needs is your mindless babbling about nothing really relevant to anything in his world at all.

Honestly, you women should be honored if you find a man who loves you enough to want to take care of you and provide you a life like that. We men hold you on a pedestal. No, not equal, but in appreciation. We want to take care of you and we want to treat you well.

When everyone knew their place in society, things were much simpler than they are now. Everybody knew exactly what was expected of them, and as long as they did those things to the best of their abilities, they were considered good people.

Now you women got all hoity-toity, and that house and car and clothes and food and love and affection and life that we provided for you just weren’t enough. So you had to go out and experience a man’s world. You had to do it yourself. Then you realized, oh MAN, this sure is tough!

Now we have all this equal rights bullshit with women voting and joining the army. What sort of feminist nonsense is that? Oh, you want to go through boot camp but still have us open your doors and pull out your chairs? You ventured a little too far out of the kitchen and look at us now: chivalry is dead because you killed it. You get one or the other. You can’t have your cake and eat it too, because that’s what you women are doing now, and you're getting really fat.

It's the only reason that I wake up at 5:30 every weekday morning and catch two buses to school, then go to work (the way I pay for my education), and then go home dead tired. It's the only way I can learn how to sort laundry. My motivation is that one day I want to wash your dishes, baby. Mr. Clean makes me happy.

I want the life I have seen on '50s television shows like Leave it to Beaver. I want my two boys to go off to school, my husband to go off to work, while I stay home vacuuming in high heels and pearls. I especially like sleeping in separate beds, because sheets for four twin beds is a lot of laundry, and you know how happy that makes me, don't you?

The amazing thing about television: it's make-believe. You have problems that cannot be resolved in thirty minutes, kids don't always bring home A grades, Mom and Dad obviously sleep in the same bed, and your momma doesn't vacuum in heels and pearls!

I have no problem with a woman (or a man) who wants to stay home and take care of the house and children. To each her own; I envy your patience and more power to you! What I do have a problem with is men who expect women to be housewives. That whole bringing home the bacon spiel is old, and it might explain why men are at such high risk for heart attacks.

It's all very Freudian, really. When a guy says he wants his wife to stay at home, what he really means is that he wants his mommy. He doesn't want a partner, he wants a maid. He wants someone to stay at home and wash dishes, windows, and toilets, and serve him dinner. The more he pushes for a housewife, the more he's trying to get out of raising his kids. It's sad and pathetic, I know, but just pay attention to what they are really saying.

When a guy says, "I expect dinner to be on the table when I get home," what he really means is, "My mommy always had dinner ready when I got home from school." When he says, "Children are not that much work," what he really means is, "I am afraid of the children. I don't want to work that hard." If they give you that whole, "It's a man's world and you'll never make it," that translates into, "I have low self esteem and I want to feel superior next to you by pretending you can't do my job better than I can."

Since the beginning of time, there has been a certain breed of guys who get their panties in a bunch whenever a woman outshines them. They get uncomfortable when we speak our minds, they are annoyed that we have rights, and they feel like we are beneath them. Our goals are not as important as their poker games, our opinions are not as important as NASCAR races, and their children are no longer their problem after conception.

Girl; Graphic by Joe Stafford

I do not pay tuition and bust my ass in an institution of higher learning to learn how to wash some guy's underwear, and Home Ec will never show up on my degree plan. I am here because I have a goal, and the fact that I lack a Y chromosome doesn't make it any less important than anyone else's.

Deciding to raise your children full-time or continue your career is a choice you have to make. Not your baby's daddy. If that is what you want, then congratulations. But the reverend did not say, "I pronounce you man and common law slave." He pronounced you man and wife, which in my mind implies a partnership. And don't you men dare give me that male ego BS. Stay-at-home dads seem to manage just fine. I haven't heard any reports about a man keeling over because his wife brought home a check.

That's what separates the men from the boys. A man will help you with the chores, isn't afraid to raise his own kids, and is comfortable enough in his manhood not to be bothered by his wife having a job outside the kitchen; whereas a boy wants a housewife/mommy, still needs to feel like he's a "big boy now," and believes that girls have cooties (that's the complex reason we can't work, of course). He wants someone who will let him do the thinking for her.

Guys act like being treated like an invalid is a good thing. They try to make us think we’re valued when in all actuality they make us feel like potted plants. Then, when we try to tell them that their views on women are as dead as the dinosaurs, they call us feminists like it's a insult. Because of course owning a set of ovaries and thinking for yourself makes you a freak.

If you think that a woman's purpose in life is to clean up after you and serve as an incubator, then you probably haven't had the chance to interact with the opposite sex often. If you view children as a hassle you shouldn't have to deal with when you come home, then you have serious issues and probably will not get to interact with the opposite sex anytime soon.

Bottom line: if you don't feel like you're up to the task of raising your children and you are unable to deal with the opposite sex as an equal, then you should keep your pants on in the first place.