I’m writing to let you know that I found a column about marriage very sexist and extremely offensive (“Women should think twice about marriage,” SN 10/16). I respect one’s decision on whether to get married, but I cannot agree with the way in which writer Jessi Phillips presented hers. Phillips didn’t find faults with marriage as an institution or as a failing of a partnership. Instead she found men at the root of all that is bad in marriage.

Phillips says that “the typical marriage is still a pretty bunk deal for a woman,” and goes on to cite all the toils that modern women go through while married, such as housework. In my experience, household duties are shared equally, but I do understand that chores may, more often than not, fall to the woman. What I take great exception to is Phillips’ blanket statement that “Most men do not share equal responsibility when it comes to taking care of their children