Under the Wire

Sue stood silently by as I paced back and forth in front of our jointly shared clothes closet. I may have never written a sentence as full of exaggerations as the one you have just finished reading. Such a simple, innocent sounding statement, you might say. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If any of you male readers share a closet with a member of the opposite gender, two glaring inaccuracies are already obvious. Number one, there is no such thing as a “jointly shared” clothes closet between a man and a woman. Jointly shared implies equality for both sharing parties. Has there ever bee...