I had a gut feeling about this.

shit-zen-giggles · 2023-02-28T02:27:16+00:00

please remember to choose a descriptive title for your future posts

pearl_harbour1941 · 2023-02-28T02:44:46+00:00

Melinda Gates, the philanthropist and mother of three, gathered from listening to her kids and their friends that the next generation of American spouses expects to evenly split the household chores.

“I’m sorry to say this, but if you think that, you’re wrong,” she wrote to high schoolers Monday in her annual open letter, co-penned with her husband Bill Gates. “Unless things change, girls today will spend hundreds of thousands more hours than boys doing unpaid work simply because society assumes it’s their responsibility.”

According to OECD stats (that actually don't take into account outside house work done by men), women spend an average of 4hrs25m a day doing unpaid "work", where men spend 2hrs15m [source: https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=54757] A difference of 2hrs10m.

That's 15hrs a week.

52 weeks a year. (780 hours a year).

Hundreds of thousands of hours MORE than boys would require girls to live to at least 256 adult years [200,000 / 780].

But wait, it gets better:

The domestic division of labor remains staggeringly unbalanced in the United States, where female breadwinners now support 40 percent of homes. Women here typically spend two hours and 12 minutes daily on housework, while men spend one hour and 21 minutes.

So, only 50m difference!

Lets do those sums again: 50m x 7 = 6hrs (approx) = 300hrs a year - girls would have TO LIVE 660 YEARS OF ADULT LIFE.

The rest of the article is also junk:

The wife penalty

Men, it turns out, might be holding their partners back when they don't share non-work tasks.

But also:

Lesbian premium

...two-women households, on average, see lower combined income than man-woman arrangements

So, with NO man holding them back, women earn less.

Why did they even bother writing this garbage?

Siganid · 2023-02-28T08:52:33+00:00

Also left out of this conversation:

Women often desire a much more intricate routine of chores simply for the sake of it or bragging rights. Bachelor pads have a reputation as less complex, less decorated places for a reason.

If you are the one who insisted on 879 lace doilies, 493 pillows, triple layer curtains or whatever other dumb garbage the home magazine told you was in style, you definitely deserve to clean it yourself.

Obligating your partner to maintain a house to a higher standard of complexity than they want is as unfair as expecting someone to do all the chores based on gender.

shit-zen-giggles · 2023-02-28T02:37:26+00:00

this article was published 7 years ago

February 25, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. EST

Other than that: The author did the usual. Drive resentment and blame in the beginning of the article then the further down you go you find the nuances and caviats.

This is a good example for 'how you indoctrinate a population'

Never the less: Thanks for sharing 🙏

deeredman1991 · 2023-02-28T04:56:29+00:00

Paywall, didn't read...

If the answer is anything other than "because women are hypergamous and so lesbians have to work harder to attract a woman than straight women have to work to attract a man" I am going to call bullshit.

bigbouncingbanana · 2023-02-28T02:44:20+00:00

Paywall.

What's the tl dr?

IceCorrect · 2023-02-28T08:59:37+00:00

Its not. Women become men they want to date, yet those women in pants are not attracted to men, so the only people who would like to date them are another women, especialy if they have male traits.

nineteenletterslong_ · 2023-02-28T19:59:25+00:00

if you refresh the page, the paywall goes away

Title	I had a gut feeling about this.
Author	Maxi-Spade
Upvotes	11
Comments	42
Date	February 28, 2023 12:42 AM UTC (3 years ago)
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