Posted on 05/24/2015 2:03:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
he melee started, it seems, with a meme. The photo was of an innocuous scene, one that many are anticipating this Memorial Day weekend: hamburgers and hot dogs on a grill. It was the caption that set everything off.
It read: “Soooo you are at a barbecue. Your man is hungry. He lets you know he is hungry, but you are not the kind of woman to go around fixing plates for a man, so you ignore him. A random woman hears this and says, ‘I will fix his plate.’ She sashays away and comes back with a plate for your man. Do you have any problems with this?”
The answer should have been simple: Yes, this is a problem. One, why is a hungry, fully functional grown man acting incapable of fixing his own plate? Two, why is he acting like his plate is his woman’s job to tend to? Three, who is this crazy woman who doesn’t know him or me from Adam and Eve, who takes it upon herself to do something as intimate as fix his plate?
Maybe the conversation started off civil, but by the time I stumbled into it, all hell had broken loose. In 2015, social media devolved into a full-fledged debate over whether it was a woman’s duty to fix her man a plate. ... And a surprising number of the answers were “yes.”
Black women’s new mandatory requirements: Stay black. Die. Fix a man’s plate.
(Excerpt) Read more at theroot.com ...
Christians and others are beheaded today.
Just a reminder.
Oldplayer
Is this in ebonics? ‘Cause it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
The country I was born in is gone, it would seem.
I’d take it as ‘miss sashay’ is honing in on my man and making my ass look bad.
My plate ain’t broke and it don’t need fixing.
But my shirt sure needs ironing.
I don’t mind fixin’ my mans plate...as long as my husband isn’t around.
Its never been a problem in my family. I fix my own damn plate or stay hungry.
We even had one black kid at the picnic yesterday and he fixed his own plate too. (My niece is dating the minister’s son. He’s a good solid kid)
The only satisfactory marital situation is for the man to be a slave to his wife when at home. Women and homosexuals are being stoked for being the image of the ruling class. It won’t happen. Men will always actually rule but it is useful for total rulers to hobble the population and minimize opposition by setting up women and homosexuals as the ruling class and continuing to shame and debase the masses of men.
Three, who is this crazy woman who doesn’t know him or me from Adam and Eve, who takes it upon herself to do something as intimate as fix his plate?
So, there are a lot of problems. If she is not the "plate fixing kind of woman"; shouldn't he know that and get his own plate. If she is at the table with the food, just for convienence sake, or, just to do something nice for her husband; couldn't she just put some food on a plate and give it to him.
Mostly, I see a situation that didn't need to occur if everyone there had acted a bit more like an adult.
Huh? Is this that same old ‘Make Me a Sammich’ cr@p? LOL!
Seriously, I have fixed plenty of MEALS for men through the years, but they’ve all been fully capable of filling their own plates. Are we supposed to cut their meat for them, too? Chew it? Regurgitate?
Is this some cultural thing I’ve missed? I don’t remember ANY woman in my family fixing a plate for their husbands.
They fixed plates for the CHILDREN, though. ;)
If he’s cooking and I want to make sure he gets his food, hell yes I’ll fix his plate. If it’s a buffet line and we both go through each gets his/her own plate but once sitting down, if we’ve forgotten something, a drink, napkin, whatever, either one of us will get it for the other. If he’s tired, I’ll fix him dinner and his plate and clean up. Vice versa. What on earth is the big deal. Sad.
I remember coming back from an outdoor concert three miles away and we stopped so we could go to the bathroom. Of course tons of other people were there and lined up to use the bathroom and of course the ladies’ line was longer. This big masculine looking woman strode up and started bullying the men out of the way and cutting in their line to use their bathroom. I blocked her. I think if a man had tried to block her it would have ended poorly but there was no way I was going to let her block Mr. Mercat and my 70 year old brother from their turn to pee. She went quietly.
I love my husband and enjoy fixing his plate. He does not expect or demand it.
It didn’t bother me that my ex wife never did anything for me. I never asked and she didn’t offer, but it urns out she was too stupid to learn to leave the toilet seat up and one day I just threw her lazy inconsiderate ass out.
“I don’t mind fixin’ my mans plate...as long as my husband isn’t around.”
ROFLMAO!
Here’s to our Husbands and Lovers. May they never meet! ;)
Well, hubby and I divide up chores in a pretty traditional way. However, I am a very bad ironer; and, he would do that himself because I would end up putting more creases into the shirt than when I began.
We now get shirts that don't wrinkle so easily and I make sure to pull them out of the dryer asap, so that they won't wrinkle.
His plate was broken?
Yes, it was empty.
I better get back in and add a /s tag or everybody will think I was serious.
I can’t believe a man would stoop to letting a woman fix his plate. He needs to fix his own dam plate.
Dadgum controlling women.
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