So i recently started seeing walking dead season 1 and i found some very interesting things about division of labor and the women questioning it.

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What the men were doing:

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Shane: Doing tasks like collecting the water, taking care of the camp, fighting zombies, operating the radio.

Rick: Fighting his way through zombies in a city and then escaping and then going back to the city to rescue someone

The old guy: Protecting the camp, repairing the machinery(plus he's old so he gets leeway)

Glenn : Risking his life for a stranger, riding in to a horde of zombies to save someone else.

Daryl: Hunting, gathering food, fighting zombies in the woods to make sure the camp can eat.

The black dude: Fighting, risking his life for someone who was racist against him.

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What one guy at camp was doing: Sitting around doing nothing.

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What women were doing:

Women: Cleaning the clothes and cooking the food. Complaining about how difficult their job is and questioning the division of labor.

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Now, i don't mind that the women sit around and do easy tasks while the men do the dangerous tasks, that is division of labor leading to efficiency and safety of the group. What i do see is that the women are complaining that the men are not contributing enough to the group and about the "division of labor" because they saw 1 guy sitting down not doing work. This is feminism at it's finest, taking one example and thinking it to be the norm of all men. Note: That while the the women saw the guy sitting down, all the other men in the group were fighting hundreds of zombies.