Steven Harper Piziks

Geez, here we go again:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_women

Short version: the CBC persuaded the female population of a small town to vacate for a week, leaving the houses and children in the hands of the men.  (The women went to a resort.  What happens to single moms isn't specified.)  The idea is that disaster would break out and wouldn't it be fun to watch the idiot men try to cope?

What idiocy.

Can you imagine if they did the reverse?  What if they sent all the men away and left the women in charge?  How funny!  Disaster would surely break out!  Oh wait--that would be a sexist idea.  But if we send the women away and wait for disaster, that's not sexist at all.

I imagine things won't go nearly as wrong as the network is hoping, and I imagine that they'll still pounce on everything that -does- go wrong and hype it.  And I'm sure they'll pounce on the men being tired and overwhelmed.  Well, no kidding!  They'll have gone from being part of a team to being single parents.

I'm interested in knowing how they handled situations in which the mother dealt with certain things that the father =couldn't= deal with because of scheduling.  For example, at our house, I can't drop the boys off at school because I have to leave for work at 6:15 and the earliest the boys can enter school is 6:30.  Kala can drop them off and still make it to sub jobs.  If Kala went to a resort for a week, the boys wouldn't be able to get to school.  How did the show handle such problems?

I hope the show bombs.