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[penguinofhonor]

The ever-present threat of communism made Americans constantly aware of their capitalistic work ethic and self image. Now that it's gone, they've fallen into complacency.

[Truean]

The ever-present threat of communism made Americans constantly aware of their capitalistic work ethic and self image. Now that it's gone, they've fallen into complacency.

I was typing up something with Beatles references, Joe McCarthy, Mister Rogers (red sweater, "very suspect"), and several other things, but I like your phrasing better. Let's go with that.

[Max White]

Ok, either I am pretty much lulling myself into getting trolled here or we are reached the point where your too emotional about a subject to make a reasonable point. Or both.

[Scelly9]

Ok, either I am pretty much lulling myself into getting trolled here or we are reached the point where your too emotional about a subject to make a reasonable point. Or both.

...Are you sure you're in the right thread?

[Truean]

[shrugs]

The "study" is BS. The only thing here really is to say how it is BS, unless I'm missing something.

[Max White]

The study concludes that as a general trend, women burnt more calories doing housework in the past than they do today. Is that false? Heck the same is true for men, but most likely to a lesser degree as men didn't do as much housework in the past because of the 'Guy goes to work, girl stays at home and cleans' attitude.

What part of that is inaccurate?

[Flying Dice]

Men also burnt more calories on average when their typical work consisted more of manual labor and less of paper shuffling. It's not wrong to make the assumption that that shift is one of several factors which has resulted in the average male weight going up, is it? There's no value judgment being made re: woman and housework, just an observation. And a rather obvious one at that, on the order of "Average human weight increased to a certain degree after the spread of the automobile/locomotives/animal-drawn wagons/the wheel/domesticated animals/etc. replaced the previous common mode of transportation.". Less physical exertion = fewer calories burned. Fewer calories burned with the same (or greater) intake results in weight gain.