Funny! These types of pseudo-studies piss me off.
The wife and I have shared housework for many reasons over the last 40 years, through raising three sons whom we taught to take care of themselves.
I learned how to do most of these things working as a restaurant cook in HS and after my mother died when I was 17. All of these habits, sense of self-responsibility and the discipline were reinforced during my time in the Marine Corps.
For anyone who thinks that dependence is the way to go, only a lazy, adolescent fool makes himself dependent on anyone. Nut up and take responsibility for yourselves and learn to share responsibility for the needs of daily living.
Any man who cannot cook, clean and take care of himself in the absence of a wife, mother, sister, daughter, girlfriend, is pretty pathetic.
Amen!
Last weekend my son had a friend stay over. That kid has everything done for him. My son, on the other hand, knows how to clean, do laundry, mow the lawn, cook, etc. As a matter of fact, his chickens tenders are better than mine!
The boys decided to make some cookies. That kid was lost in the kitchen . . . couldn't tell the difference between the sugar and the flour. It was pitiful watching him.
FWIW, I can cook, clean and take care of myself in the absence of a wife and have done so on numerous occasions when my wife has been out of town for extended times to care for an elderly relative or a daughter who just gave birth.
I love my wife dearly, but sometimes I actually look forward to these absences because I can cook what I want, when I want it, open the sardines and get the deer sausage out of the freezer to fry up without anybody complaining. I can also turn down the heat to 55 degrees or so where I am most comfortable and leave the toilet seat up.
I suspect there are a lot of menfolk in exactly the same situation.