Facebook must be some sort of spyware. I don't even have a Facebook account yet it somehow managed to find me and to push me some sort of short story (in Dutch) which I then got hooked on and ended up reading all of it. And that is what I want to talk about today.
It starts with a woman throwing her partner's teenage son's dirty laundry out of the window and declaring that she is not a cook and not a maid and is not going to take care of him any more. Let his father do it. The boy and his father then stage some sort of protest and keep leaving food and dirty dishes everywhere until she decides to kick them out.
Women below in the comments applauded (predictably).
The story left me wondering. There are so many details we don't know. First, they are evidently not married since she says something along the lines of deciding to live together with a man, not his son. (This is her first mistake). The story insinuates strongly that both he and his son are freeloaders (the son plays computer games the whole day), yet if the man is such a loser why on Earth did she move together with him? Whose house is it? Presumably hers since in the end she decides to change the locks. But again, something in that particular guy must have attracted her in the first place, didn't it?
Does she work? Does the guy work? Who is the main breadwinner? Why did the son move with them in the first place? How old is he really?
There are a couple scenarios which come into my mind. Number one, the guy is a total moocher who moves into her house and sponges off her while not contributing financially and refusing to do any housework and then invites his son who is just such another. In this situation, her reaction is understandable but her decision to let him in in the first place is not. In fact, it portrays her as a total idiot (sorry) who finally gets some sense, not a victim of some imaginary patriarchy or whatever the story tried to convey.
Or may be it's an average couple (what passes for family nowadays) where the woman works slightly less hours than the guy and thus does laundry and cooking (and the guy, in fact, asks her since she already did it for him, why would she refuse to do it for his son). Then the son probably quarrels with his mother and decides to move in with the father and his new girlfriend. If we presume that his father provides for him what then is the lady's problem? Her children aren't mentioned at all so she probably has none.
Why on Earth can't she be more maternal and show some love to a troubled teenage boy (I think the story mentions that he is still at school so he can't be really that old), especially since she is already in love with his father? While women of other cultures pride themselves on being hospitable, caring and maternal, Western women apparently should pride themselves on being total b8tches nothing of the sort.
But then, a decent woman from a traditional culture wouldn't have moved in with a man she wasn't married to. Her family wouldn't have allowed her to...
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