Posted on 09/28/2021 5:38:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Life was different for all of us, pre-pandemic. Life was especially different for men. Many Indian men, that is. Not trying to sweep half a billion with one stroke, but you get the drift. It wasn’t too long ago when our men needed an app to find where kitchen essentials were kept … or to tell their dals apart. And no number of orientations would do the trick. They’d open the fridge and ask where that mug of cold coffee was even though they’d be staring right at it. That’s because I was told the refrigerator light tends to contract the male eye pupil making it impossible to locate items. Men also thought of the women in their house as a Siri or an Alexa with clairvoyant powers who’d be able to answer questions like where their lost headphones were or what was the name of their boss’s first born.
Men may have been slogging at work and on the jogging tracks in the early mornings. But they were duly exempt from activities such as cooking, cleaning, managing the household staff, and child-raising; activities that were deemed creativity-killing, mental peace-ruining, and grey cell-destroying in the male parlance.
Pre-pandemic was also the time when men not only had different standards but a whole different scale for hygiene, cleanliness, and organization skills. If they could make a list of people to cancel, Marie Kondo would top that list. And they were right. If women felt the need to wear hazmat suits and clip their noses before entering men’s rooms and walk around like they were walking in an abandoned nuclear power plant just because the rooms were coated with dust, grime, and other obscure matter, it wasn’t their problem. In summary, men were unconcerned with these inconsequential things, and therefore,
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Someone has to be. Just ask Don Lemon.
They can identify as zebra-striped donkeys for all I care.
No. Because men can’t give birth.
Sounds like they’re trying to put all of the past fifty years of feminism into one article title.
There was Mr. Mom.
No, I’d say you’re a bit off.
Go watch some of those old tv westerns. (And watch how the good guys treat women.)
That’s how a man acts.
The feminization of men has failed.
Back when the kids were little (worked from home) I would take the kids out to the park or a hiking trail or something most days to get outside and give my wife a break.
Whenever other people would comment about me “babysitting” I would say “Babysitting? They’re my kids. I’m being a dad.”
Diane Keaton did the distaff version in Baby Boom. (No relation)
Someone else remembers.
Mommy calls the vacuum cleaner Jaws.
no
many are ... times have changed ... it won’t end well ...
How many cat men do you know? How many cat ladies do you know? QED.
No. Now go get me a beer.
Disclosure: I would not normally say something like that, but this writer deserves it.
Men had better learn how to do a MAN’S JOB, and a Woman’s job around the house. When you are left along someone has got to clean up YOUR mess. It might as well be you.
I learned to cook and clean at a very early age. That is why I don’t live in a pile of filth and eat only pizzas and soda pop.
Seconded.
People like her think that because she watches movies created in Hollywood, that when war comes, women will be just as adept at lugging those 155 mm shells and engaging in hand to hand combat with men, but men aren’t capable of sweeping a floor.
I changed more diapers on our 3 kids than my wife did. I also got up in the middle of the night when they were sick, had nightmares, etc. more than she did.
I did the laundry.
I did the dishes.
Hell, I set up her coffee pot at night so when she got up it was already perked and ready for her.
Ain’t no wonder when the ‘honey’ stopped, I waited it out as long as I could, and after 4 1/2 years left.
Well, she showed me! 2 years after that, she died of a stroke, so I moved back in and picked right back up. Luckily, I don’t have to do diapers anymore (they’re all teens) :-)
One thing that taught me, I will NEVER get married again.
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