http://fridayplaydate.com/the-butter-people/ entirely true, but exaggerated for comic effect Tue, 22 May 2012 10:21:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://fridayplaydate.com/the-butter-people/#comment-1688 martha Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:06:00 +0000 http://fridayplaydate.com/the-butter-people/#comment-1688 I can thank my own ADD tendencies that I'm pretty much as unlikely to know where the butter is as my husband. I think of myself as a feminist. My husband and I both work from home, and spend pretty much equal time with the kids. The gender issue shows up in our household primarily in the inequity of how much money we make. And money is power. I know that to my roots by now. But it's a complex equation-- I don't make as much money in part because of the profession I've chosen (I'm a muralist), and partly because I have a great deal of trouble asking for what I'm worth, which of course is another gender related issue. Interesting discussion. I can thank my own ADD tendencies that I’m pretty much as unlikely to know where the butter is as my husband. I think of myself as a feminist. My husband and I both work from home, and spend pretty much equal time with the kids. The gender issue shows up in our household primarily in the inequity of how much money we make. And money is power. I know that to my roots by now. But it’s a complex equation– I don’t make as much money in part because of the profession I’ve chosen (I’m a muralist), and partly because I have a great deal of trouble asking for what I’m worth, which of course is another gender related issue. Interesting discussion.

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