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"Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else."

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, American Activist

Men, Thought, Housework

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"Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else."

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