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you guys remember that post that’s like a series of tweets that a guy makes about how his girlfriend taught him about extremely rudimentary adult things like tupperware and shower curtains and they like. blew his mind and everyone in the comments is gushing about how cute they think it is? just reminding everyone that i hate it 

What about the women who don’t even know how to refill window washing liquid in their car? Properly screw in a nail?

Go fuck yourself for being such a cynical cunt. You don’t know that guys life, or why his situation was the way it was. Instead of feeling like an idiot and taking medication for it like 75% of you on here he tries to make positives out of it, but of course you subhumans all hate it.

hey dude just a quick question: what the fuck

>screw in a nail

I mean, on the one hand, douchebag. On the other…I’ve had to teach way too many girls and trans guys things like how to put coolant in their cars (often also that their cars need coolant at all…) because for some bizarre reason basic ass life skills are considered gendered. Like, this shit affects everyone. We don’t get to laugh at men for not being able to do their own laundry, but let women off the hook for not being able to change a tire because patriarchy. They’re both symptoms of the same problem.

Your response really miscasts the issue. They aren’t equal issues and even if they stem from the gendered division of labor, they do not have equal impacts on women and men.

A lot of times women don’t learn to do handy things because their fathers (or father figures) didn’t think they needed to be taught those things given they’d have a man in their life to do it for them. But those kind of tasks tend to be things you only need to do once in a while; like for example, I don’t need to assemble a piece of furniture or fix an issue with plumbing more than a few times a year, if that. By contrast, men not knowing basic household tasks and self-care puts the onus of daily household labor and childrearing on women. This results in a woman doing regular, intensive household labor while the man can say he mowed the lawn or put together a new end table, tasks that only happen infrequently. There was a tumblr post about the unequal division of household labor between women and men and how male-specific tasks often operate as yet another way to entrap women into doing more labor.

Also, do you know how frustrating it was to teach myself how to assemble my own furniture or fix an electronic device? I was definitely pissed that my brother was taught these things, but I never was. You even say in your tags that you were taught those things despite not having a car, because it was assumed you needed to know them. That’s probably because your father (or another important male figure in your life) thought it was a task that you deserved to know. The same is true of my brother. But as his sister I was not seen as needing to know those things.

On the surface both issues seem “the same” but when you look more closely the impact still falls harder on women. Women who don’t know how to do handy things are seen as incompetent when it comes to being handy. Whereas, men not being able to cook or clean is just seen as the order of things and more proof that a woman‘s place is in the kitchen. A woman is periodically told she should “stand back” and let men do the manly work, while a man who can’t do basic domestic tasks has an excuse to sit on his ass while his wife does the brunt of the housework on a day-to-day basis. That’s the difference. Patriarchy doesn’t hurt everyone equally–it’s designed to oppress women, never forget that. 

I can pay $20 to get my oil changed every few months and have them run other checks all at the same time while I wander around Walmart. Doing laundry, on the other hand, needs to happen every week. Most people don’t have the means to pay someone else to do it, so we all should learn it as soon as we’re tall enough to reach the buttons.

Men are just unable to take care of themselves out of spite

How unhygienic are you?(or do you live in a damp climate?) laundry only needs to be done every other week and that’s like what, separate colors, put some pwder in, fill a pre measured cup with fluid, stuff in machine and then i can also go to WM for an hour or 2 and done

LMFAO you’re calling someone nasty for doing laundry MORE FREQUENTLY than you? have you considered that you’re actually the dirtball?

Nope i have >14 units each of t-shirts amd underwear, wich i wash with my bedsheets, that only needs to be washed every other week because i shower daily

do you think she does laundry weekly because she only owns 7 pairs of underwear????? enjoy your dirty laundry sitting around for two weeks until you get to it

Showering daily doesn’t make up for only laundering your clothes and bedding twice a month, what the fuck dude 😷 and you’re calling her unhygienic