It's All Eve's Fault
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by Stephie Smith

I can't understand why anyone is disbelieving of the scientific fact that men's brains aren't set up for multi-tasking while women's are.

Where is the confusion? Everybody knows that evolution occurs as a result of need. So someone please just tell me when men have ever had the "need" to multi-task? The answer is never--because from the beginning of time, women have been doing it all for them.

Just think back to Adam and Eve. God planned for Eve to be a companion to Adam, yet right off the bat she starts fixing his meals. And, as if that's not bad enough, she gets blamed for what he eats, pretty much the same way my sister gets blamed for her husband's weight problem.

Well, no one forced Adam to take a bite of that apple; he was just too lazy to fix something himself. Yet, I can't blame him at all when Eve was jumping at the chance to do it for him.

What was her problem? She didn't even have any competition for his affection. One man. One woman. She could have pretty much had the whole relationship any way she wanted it, so why did she choose to have it that way? And did she honestly think he was worth it??? Because I suspect that for the rest of their lives, Adam spent his time playing in the woods, killing an occasional wild animal for food, while Eve was back at the cave scrubbing the floor, cleaning and preparing and storing the food, gathering wood for the fire and water for the cooking, watching and feeding and bathing the children, making utensils, and sewing together fig leaves.

And did it get her any better treatment? No. When he came home from his "hard" day in the woods, Adam still spent the rest of the day and night in one self-gratifying pleasure after another with nary a thought for poor old Eve, who probably had to work right up until bedtime in order to get everything done by herself.

So now, just because Eve was emotionally insecure (or mentally ill, if you ask me), in houses all over the world, men are drinking leisurely cups of coffee and reading their morning papers, while women, who are evidently helpless against this innate need to take care of men, are racing around their houses like idiots, fixing breakfasts, packing lunches, feeding pets, ironing shirts, making grocery lists, and doing any other number of tasks that bring little or no personal satisfaction and will just have to be repeated again tomorrow.

All I have to say about this is thanks a lot, Eve, because it's all YOUR fault.