Little Hawk, I would not rush to make comments about women's insecurity before actually seeing Bobert's bathroom. It could be that asking an outsider to clean it would violate the Geneva Convention.

As for washing the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher, there are two factors at work here. Long ago, it was necessary to rinse them very well before putting them in, and some people cling to this.

The other factor is that there are certain foods that the dishwasher doesn't deal with very well. Rice, for example. If find that if there are grains of rice on the food, the dishwasher pulverizes them and sprays them back on to the dishes, where they stick and stay. The dishwasher is also not good at removing cheese or egg yolk.

Just in general, we find that if we give the dishes a very quick swish, we can use the "water miser" cycle which saves a considerable amount of water, time, and electricity.