I’ve also heard women smugly say about their husbands and household chores. ‘He wouldn’t know what to do.’ Ladies, to me it’s not something to be proud of.
Then there’s this one, ‘I couldn’t trust him to do it properly. So what’s the point?’
The point is maybe they’ve never let them do it. Maybe their standards are too high? Maybe they should be thankful for what he does and if it’s not up to their standard, either just accept it or go and quietly fix it or touch it up when he is not around.
It’s this sort of helpless husband attitude that produces advertisements which portray the husband as stupid and incapable and they annoy me. No-one should be portrayed as stupid and incapable ever.
There’s no valid reason a man can’t do household chores equally as well as a woman. It’s simply gender conditioning.
I know one young man who cleans the oven for his wife, having heard oven cleaner fumes are harmful to women. So he does the job. After all, he figures, she does the cooking and he gets to enjoy the benefits of that, so why not take on some of the hard work. She shouldn’t be expected to do it all. Mick will also clean the oven for me which astounded a friend of his one time.
Having husbands that are helpless when it comes to household chores is not helpful to them. It’s not wise or helpful to make yourself indispensable.
One day there may be an emergency and they may have to learn to fend for themselves, so better to know how already. It’s also helpful for the next generation of males to learn how to do these things, in case they’re out batching before they get married or have a wife who is in a demanding job and who needs them to help.
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