This Is Very Much Not What a Normal Husband Does

FewVoice1280 · 2025-05-11T16:03:35+00:00

Well even if these husbands exist they are not seen as "ideal".

Kuato2012 · 2025-05-11T17:57:07+00:00

Since she's framing this as a 1950s caricature of marital dynamics, I'll continue in the same vein:

Sure, go ahead and be the husband, and I'll be the wife. While you're fighting traffic on the way to work and then slaving away for a soulless company, I get to stay home with the kids! I'll sip mimosas and push the vacuum around a little if I feel like it. I'll make you responsible for my debts and then divorce you to steal half your stuff, a huge bite of your continued earnings, and also all the kids. You will have no legal recourse in the matter, because the legal system itself is the weapon I will use against you.

Straw men are simple. Reality is complex.

David_Summerset · 2025-05-11T19:34:40+00:00

This is a direct slap in the face to my (at the time) single dad.

Im gonna call him.

AntiFeministLib · 2025-05-11T16:43:01+00:00

Interesting read….as I just come on having paid the cleaner for Fridays deep clean and washed all sheets, all clothes, dried in the sun, folded and put away.

Also took the family to town and spent a hundred on camping gear for my son so he can go camping this week. Took my wife to a place she wanted to check out.

Got back, lying on my bed. Didn’t get a single thanks but did get my driving criticised by my wife on the way back.

Honestly, reading the entitlement, victim culture and blame on misandrist (female) spaces a woman would last 5 minutes being a husband.

The above just shows what a warped world they live in.

You don’t like it, don’t marry him. It’s bloody simple, stop with the victim card.

AgeOfReasonEnds31120 · 2025-05-11T16:03:58+00:00

Housewives work 2 hours a day at most.

AigisxLabrys · 2025-05-11T16:07:42+00:00

First world problems.

Not remembering kids’ allergies and birthday is still bad, though.

juan_samuel · 2025-05-11T16:32:59+00:00

Was this written in the 50s?

ParanoidAgnostic · 2025-05-11T22:52:44+00:00

Become a husband. Make romantic approaches and be rejected countless times. Don't lose confidence because that would make you even less attractive. Work to meet the strict criteria to be worthy of dating. Be rejected some more. Finally get a date. Plan the date. Pay for the date. Take on responsibility for keeling the conversation flowing during the date. Don't get a second date. Repeat the process until you sufficiently impress someone to have a series of dates you also have the privilege of planning, paying and being judged for. Make ongoing unrecyprocated romantic gestures. Take on responsibility for each escalation in the relationship. Know the right time to lean in for a kiss. Know the right time to initiate sex. Be responsible for your partner's enjoyment of sex. Break up and have it made your fault. Repeat until you make it through the interview process to be determined husband material. Know that you have done so without being told. Plan the perfect proposal and risk rejection one more time.

Be a husband. Keep making unrecyprocated romantic gestures. Keep being responsible for your partner's enjoyment of sex. Take on responsibility for your partner's comfort, security and emotional state. Accept that anythig they are unhappy about is your fault. Take on all male-coded chores. Share female-coded.chores because to do otberwise would be sexist. Ensure you always earn more than your partner or they will lose respect for you.Face endless demands from your partner. Face tantrums whenever you fail to meet one of those demands. Don't even think about doing the same because that would be abuse.

rumpots420 · 2025-05-11T18:26:56+00:00

So many split infinitives

LeftcelInflitrator · 2025-05-11T18:37:12+00:00

If women were okay with being the actual breadwinner Then they have a point, but women want only men that make a significant amount more than them while also splitting towards 50-50. Having a career that makes a significant amount of money is extremely taxing. This is never recognized by feminists, they always equivocate every lower-paying job a woman does to a much higher-paying job a man does.

TruthOverIdeology · 2025-05-11T20:36:36+00:00

And then the better studies show how men in general work slightly more, when you actually count all work inside and outside the house. We are also more mentally resilient. So, in the majority of cases, work is probably pretty evenly distributed.

chill_stoner_0604 · 2025-05-12T13:21:02+00:00

laughs in SAHD

Task	Time
Laundry (washed, hung out, folded)	1 hour
Drove family to their destinations	2 hours
Paid for all camping equipment	0.25 hours
Ordered take away plus collection	0.5 hours
Shop to buy bottle of wine	0.25 hours
Worked on son's PC for disc space	1 hour

Title	This Is Very Much Not What a Normal Husband Does
Author	meeralakshmi
Upvotes	149
Comments	28
Date	May 11, 2025 4:00 PM UTC (1 year ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/EverydayMisandry
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