Should husbands help with the weekend housework? (1961)

krakalot · 2019-11-29T04:32:45+00:00

I watched this video recently and was shocked at the fact that despite feminism, and my high school's grade 9 'housewives in the 60s' subject best assertions to the subject it appears that the average man even in the early 60s before sexual revolution had a very normal attitude to say, helping with housework.

Morer and more I believe this whole 'men were so much worse back then/things were so much worse' is a bit of a myth which seems to have been formed based on the fact that fringe and extreme situations of domestic violence/patriarchy had been more common in the past. But that doesn't mean that the rest of the men were also significantly worse than we are today.

RT-AC66U · 2019-11-29T05:43:05+00:00

Sure why not.

deconstruct2000 · 2019-11-29T16:56:47+00:00

I know my grandfather definitely helped out around the house, and my grandmother had a housecleaner come in twice a week to help her. The only thing he really didn’t help with, was laundry. After my grandmother died, it was funny when I went to his house. He had STUFFED the laundry machine and had no idea what he was doing. I had to teach him how to do laundry. My mother faded my clothes, so in HS I refused to let her do my laundry. Its amazing how easy laundry is.

Lethn · 2019-11-29T14:13:46+00:00

Unless you have the excuse of taking care of 2 - 3 kids and it's absolute chaos in the house this whole dumb fucking argument is ridiculous. Thanks to modern technology it's going to take something like 2 hours max to do the laundry and the same for dishes and it's getting better all the time because you can put the settings on to make it go even faster if you're in a hurry.

The media and feminists as usual are just completely full of shit and honestly I'm at the point now where I'm ready to just say it's none of their fucking business. Couples all have different situations and relationship dynamics going on in their lives and they just need to decide things amongst themselves.

I want these people to just fuck off and stop telling me how to live.

Title	Should husbands help with the weekend housework? (1961)
Author	krakalot
Upvotes	31
Comments	10
Date	November 29, 2019 4:29 AM UTC (6 years ago)
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