Women Are Taught Never To Be Still Around the House
Accumulating tasks, accumulating stress, accumulating injustice
Anyone who cares for a house knows the work is unfairly and endlessly unfinished. You start, you finish, and everything begins again. Housework could be the best metaphor for this wheel of life, a complete circle without beginning or end.
In its time, if Camus had been a woman, surely he would not have referred to a man carrying a stone uphill but would have digressed about the woman who cleans the house, only to see it dirty again the next day or hour. Much better than Sisyphus, with his muscular arms, would be to see him holding a vacuum cleaner in his thick hands.
I know, however, that this idea of associating housework with the female gender is controversial, and I admit its fallacies. Voices may arise claiming that men also do it and that my discourse, inserted in a woke culture—which, by the way, I also criticize in certain aspects—is using stereotypes to relegate women to the home, thus delaying humanity's progress.
But even though I can partially agree with them, we can’t ignore how much remains to be done. We have to admit that despite the progress made in equity of gender rights, it is still mostly women who are responsible for housework.
