Chapter Eleven
We are in a certain mode of existence where we are supposed to accept and tolerate, but that just means judgment is driven underground, not eliminated.
–Dr. Abigail Rosen, The F Word: Femininity in the New Century
Carol maintained that the only good thing about washing dishes was the hot-steam facial that went along with it. She’d heard other women claim doing the dishes gave them time to think or was a meditative stress relief or other such bullshit, but that was trying to find a bright side that didn’t exist. One member of the PTA—who shall remain nameless—went so far as to say it made her happy because it gave her time away from her family.
Unlike that woman, Carol’s husband and kids had no problem finding the right side of a sponge, and recruiting help for after-dinn
