Outsiders: The Gender Balance of Housework, Inside and Out

RyansPutter · 2020-05-27T06:05:13+00:00

A lot of these "studies" and articles that talk about how women do more housework than men do focus on cooking, cleaning, and childcare. They ignore the housework that men do, as mentioned in this article.

Personally, I'm not necessarily opposed to, nor do I necessarily support traditional gender roles. That's up for individual couples to decide. Making everything "equal" isn't necessarily good. For example, my parents have been married for almost 40 years. If my mom and dad shared the responsibility of cooking and baking equally, they'd probably end up eating baloney sandwiches whenever my dad attempted to cook. Likewise, if they shared the responsibility of landscaping equally, whenever my mom had that task their lawn would probably look like something you'd find at a trailer park.

79johnsmith · 2020-05-27T11:54:48+00:00

The author of the article is being very tactful.

I wish he'd just come out and say point blank 'men do housework that is critically needed' instead of this long spiel:

Both of our clubs claim to do “housework,” but in starkly different ways. A good example is painting. My wife has painted over a dozen rooms over the years, all in the name of “keeping things updated.” One spring I painted our shed and our deck, in the name of “keeping things from rotting.”

Let’s be clear: my wife does important stuff around the house, too. Still, if I were to die tomorrow (perhaps because I had killed myself cutting down a tree or repairing the spring on our garage door—two examples that are only barely fictitious), all of “my” work around the house would still need to happen. All of it. And here I mean “need to happen” in a literal sense: not how a room “needs” updating, but how you “need” to get out of your driveway to go to work or “need” to get your sump pump replaced. Etcetera.

On the other grease-stained hand, though, I know that if my wife died in a tragic pie-baking or mirror-hanging accident, I could manage without a lot of other “housework.” After all, I somehow managed without it for nearly a decade, before my wife moved into my house. During that time I did all the work outside the home, as well as cooking and cleaning and laundry. I was pretty self-reliant, actually.

Title	Outsiders: The Gender Balance of Housework, Inside and Out
Author	PeterWrightMGTOW
Upvotes	12
Comments	2
Date	May 27, 2020 4:27 AM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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