Wife Swap

I often watch “Wife Swap” on Lifetime Television for entertainment. The producers of the show choose two women from different families to live in another household for two weeks. The first week is an observation week where the wives watch how the other family lives and the next week the wives are allowed to make their own rules for the family. The object of the show is to find two families that are run in very different manners so that they learn something about the other way of life. I saw an episode this past weekend that involved a very religious family compared with a family that was run by Atheist parents. There was one particular scene when the show was focused on the religious family, when the father made some very offending comments about women. He believes that men should not clean at all and when he saw the wife that had swapped with his making his son clean the bathroom he said, “I don’t want my son to be like a woman…I want him to grow up like a man…girls should clean the toilets not men.” He refers to his philosophy of thinking as “The Man Law.” Obviously, this is not a subtle statement about differences in gender, but I thought that it was too great of an example not to mention. This was such an extreme statement and offended every female that I was watching television with, but so many men actually do think this way. I know that men and women are very different, but no man should be able to sit back and watch a woman clean and cook at all the time.