You have a penis, so you can't help me.

[Mr Hero]

My partner did the classic "stick a red thing in with the whites".

All of his sheets wound up an interesting shade of pink for a while....

Did he have to take a personality test to make sure he wasn't crazy after his boss noticed it on the work surveillance cameras?

[fireheart]

My partner did the classic "stick a red thing in with the whites".

All of his sheets wound up an interesting shade of pink for a while....

[Teefies2]

Since I always wash in cold, I don't separate. It does pay to buy the more expensive detergent if you do it my way, though - helps the colors stay bright and the whites a little more white.

[purple]

clothes and towels. Sheets go in whatever load they fit in. I wear like 1 white thing a week so it just goes in with the rest.

[cashierbex]

I go to the laundromat. I dump everything together. Cheaper that way.

[otakuneko]

And here I just dump everything in the same load... >.>

Hey, I'm a bachelor with a job in a workplace where I can wear t-shirt and jeans. XD

[Jetfire]

Beyond whites and colors, what more separation do you need? And honestly, these days I don't even make that much of a distinction most times. And what is this "ironing" thing you speak of?

Lights (my pants, underwear and socks), darks (my shirts mainly), sheets and towels.

Before I got my own washer and dryer, I would do my towels and sheets in the same load, but now I do them separately.

[mathnerd]

Beyond whites and colors, what more separation do you need?

Denim gets its own load. Then there's really dark, sort of dark, mediums, lights, reds, whites and towels. Given the population of boys in my household and the amount of laundry they produce, sometimes each individual color gets its own load.

[Jester]

The story in question.

Welcome to 1954.

Though I thought both the pilot and the airline handled it quite well.

I only divide into 4 piles now (3 in university) and don't bother ironing but that's just me and my wardrobe.

Beyond whites and colors, what more separation do you need? And honestly, these days I don't even make that much of a distinction most times. And what is this "ironing" thing you speak of?

If you can do the job, then go nuts.

Unless you're a psychopath, in which case you're already there.

[Jetfire]

Today's news has some idiot who thinks women can't fly jet airplanes.

The story in question.

As for me, I don't think I was ever explicitly taught how to do laundry, but I do have a brain and it really isn't difficult (plus I watched mom lots of times) so come university, I didn't have any issues. Granted, I only divide into 4 piles now (3 in university) and don't bother ironing but that's just me and my wardrobe.

Cooking, I love to cook. Not always the best, but I can certainly follow recipes (and follow them even better after my cooking classes in Junior High). I can also do some basic sewing, but prefer to punt that to the experts unless it's a simple button replacement.

And as far as doing the job goes, I don't care if you're man, woman, uplifted chip, uplifted elephant, telekinetic dolphin, or anything else. If you can do the job, then go nuts.

[Legacy_of_Torment]

Because some of the best interior designers aren't men, right? Foolish male, how could you have known. /sarcasm

Gotta love a nice bit of SC gender stereotyping in the morning. She sounds like a complete stuck up tool.

[mathnerd]

I bet your grandmother had some good stories.

"Good" is quite an understatement. Her stories are freaking fantastic! Unfortunately, while she wrote down most of her stories from her time in The War, they were handwritten, which were destroyed when Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida. By that time, she was too far gone into Alzheimer's to recreate them. What we have left is only what her surviving kids and grandkids can remember, and we can't tell them like she could.

[Jester]

...how else is he gonna take care of himself when he goes off to college? I'm not going to do it all for him when he's an adult!

This reminds me of college.

Growing up, my parents had some very simple and very straightforward rules, one of which was we ALL did laundry. One week I'd be doing the family's laundry, the next older sister would, etc. So from the age of about 10 on, I knew how to do laundry, which is not all that complex, honestly.

So when I got to the dorms in college, when laundry time rolled around, I gathered my stuff, walked over to the laundry room, and did my laundry. Apparently I was an exception to the rule, because I saw guy after guy walk into the laundry room and look around at everything as if he had just walked into an alien spaceship. Hell, one notorious fellow actually dated an extra girlfriend, just so she would do his laundry. At the time, I thought he was an idiot. Looking back, I think he was incompetent with laundry, but audacious and brilliant when it came to that plan.

This rather reminds me of when I was in elementary school, I was a tomboy in girl's clothing. I loved dressing-up, but loved drawing dinosaurs eating cavemen, playing with toy trucks, playing on the jungle gym and climbing trees.

My youngest niece Bear is the quintessential princess in pink girly girl. She loves everything about the whole thing, and she is stereotypical in her girliness....except when it comes to cars. She LOVES toy cars. So one day, shortly before I was to leave for Arizona, I was shopping at the local toy store for a present for her, and found an awesome miniature remote controlled car. As I was checking out, the young female clerk asked who it was for. When I said it was for my niece, the clerk said, "but that's not a girl's toy!" Without missing a beat, I looked her in the eye and said, "it is for MY niece!"

Naturally, Bear loved it, and would follow it all around the house and yard as she drove it around.

Today's news has some idiot who thinks women can't fly jet airplanes.

A new semi-regular to my bar is this lovely young woman in the Navy. She flies helicopters for them. She was in last week with a visiting female friend, also lovely. And this friend ALSO flies helicopters for the Navy.

Both of these women are hot. Personally, I hope some spark lights between myself and the one who lives locally, because she is definitely a woman, and a hot one at that. I doubt it will, but I can hope. But be that as it may, if the United States Navy thinks these women are good enough to fly Navy helicopters, who the hell would I be to argue with them?

Gender roles? They're getting blown away by those two helicopter pilots. Next question.

[Lovecats]

My oldest son, at the age of 12, can do his own cooking and cleaning. This surprises many of the other mothers I deal with, because apparently, it supposed to be MY job to make all his meals and do all his cleaning. News flash... I don't want to. Admittedly, I'm lazy by nature, but also, how else is he gonna take care of himself when he goes off to college? I'm not going to do it all for him when he's an adult!

My mother-in-law (lucky for me) made sure my husband knew his way around a kitchen and laundry. She said she felt that he should know how to take care of himself. It does help me a lot. And he does most of the cooking as he enjoys it.

[RootedPhoenix]

Today's news has some idiot who thinks women can't fly jet airplanes.

*facepalm* Last I knew, people use their feet, hands, and brain to fly planes. What a dingbat.