Sandra Tsing Loh's latest article in the Atlantic was a head scratcher. It took me a couple of reads to try to figure out what she was rambling about. Post-divorce Loh has a lot of man-issues, and her articles are painful to read. 

After a couple of attempts at reading this article (why did I bother?), I think I finally found some interesting points at the end. She wonders whether women need men at all, if they are making all the money. She describes a conversation between some of her majorly bitchy friends who complain that their husbands and former husbands were spending too much time cooking and not cleaning the house in the right way. If my husband complained about the way that I regularly fail to clean the bathroom, he would find a toilet brush shoved up his ass. 

Loh wants to know, if we don't need men for money and they aren't so great at changing light bulbs either, why do we need them at all?

The answer certainly isn’t surfacing in Japan, where single women younger than 30 make more on average than Japanese men their age do. Working wives still spend 30 hours a week on housework, compared with the three hours a week their husbands put in. Maybe that’s why one Japanese word for husband translates loosely into “big bag of trash.”

A recent study found that couples that do equal amounts of housework are more likely to get divorced.  The researchers conclude that by formally laying out housework plans and schedules, it kills spontaneity and increases conflict. They also found out that men were happier when they did more housework, while the amount of work that men did had little relationship to the wife's happiness levels. 

This brings me back to one of the criticisms of Hanna Rosin's book, The End of Men. Critics said that she didn't address the major question of what happens to feminism, when women win. Can't women, just as much as men, become assholes when they have too much power in a relationship? Women have been striving for equality for so long. Now that we finally have success, why aren't we happier with the it?