Naomi Wolf, writing in the 20th anniversary edition of Ms. magazine, tells how she often gives in to the temptation of letting the men in her life fix the television and take care of household chores.

"I have watched myself stand complacently by while my partner wrestles with a stuck window, an intractable computer printer, maps, or locks. Sisters, I am not proud of this, and I'm working on it," she writes. "It's easy to rationalize that the person with the penis is the one who should get out of a warm bed to fix the snow on the TV screen. After all, it's the very least owed to me personally in compensation for centuries of virtual enslavement."

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