"Well, Let 'Em Drop First; Then, Try Again"

Two bestselling books by Yoko Haraka...describe the exasperating fate of the modern Japanese woman: ... She can spend an eight-hour day at work and arrive home exhausted, but is she leaves the laundry until the weekend, or serves up a frozen dinner, her husband is likely to say: "What kind of woman are you?"--and mean it. On top of that he will expect her to peel his apples, go out for cigarettes, make his coffee and still have enough energy for sex.

Haruka tells of her sister-in-law who takes endless verbal abuse from her eldest brother, and her mother, who lives with them. The sister-in-law maintains a self-effacing smile even as she scurries to provide their every material need--right down to putting a cold beer in her husband's hand as he steps out of his nightly bath.

--from "Boom to Bust," an article in The Financial Times

According to the article, married couples account for 99% of all childbirths, and the birthrate has declined to a point where Japanese society will drop from 124 million persons to just 64 million by century's end. Japanese demographers and sociologists are baffled as to why. Here, I may be of some assistance. If I may be so bold, let me suggest that your men refrain from responding to their wives' kindnesses with "What kind of woman are you?" All those kicks to the testes can't be helping.