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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cooking, cleaning, managing the household staff, and child-raising;
Managing the household staff? I have been the household staff at times. My wife is not as she puts it, Susie Homemaker. She stayed home when the kids were babies, toddlers and I worked. When the kids were in 1st & 2nd grade, she went back to work because she prefers it. Shortly after that, we decided to homeschool so I stayed home and did that and all the other homemaking stuff but did auto repair on the side at home.
Since then, we moved from FL to MO and she went to work at a job and I went to work clearing this hunk of woods we bought, building a small house and a shop, clearing a fence line and fencing in 12 acres. I do all the work on all of our vehicles. I still do most of the cooking but get help from and teach "the girl" and "the boy" (yes, I use those terms LOL) for many things now so that they know how to take care of themselves which includes basic life chores. To top it all off, our son is autistic, fairly high functioning.
My wife was an only child and adopted by a woman who admitted to me one night after having had a few that she never wanted kids and was trying to keep up with the female Jones' in her sphere. My wife's memories of her is being shuttled around to stay with this person for the day or that person for the afternoon etc. Her adopted mom worked and dropped her of at various places to be raised by the village in a way which is not the same as home life.
All that being said, my wife is very loving to the kids in ways that I can't be. I'm very much not in touch with any so called feminine side and don't have an outgoing personality like she has. I also didn't carry the child inside me for 9 months. That and I'm skinny and have no bosom so hugs just aren't the same.
No wonder men are GTOW.
No. Men would have to be the woMEN of the house.
I was a single father for a lot of the ‘80s and all of the ‘90s. I would take my son to the park and inevitably another young boy would sees us together and want to hang around with us. There were no other men in the park and I knew that the poor boy was longing for a male adult figure to bond with. Heartbreaking.
MSN. No thanks.
My wife works 6 days per week at her business (1/2 day Saturday) and 3 nights per week until 7:00.
I do most of the cooking,. I am better at it than her. I also do most of the housecleaning.
I am winding my business down after 35 years. Most years I made more than her but last 7-8 years she makes more than me
My brother was a Scoutmaster. Saw this a lot. All single moms bring their son to the meetings
G-ddamn feminist feminazis!
Tried it for 6 months 35 years ago… epic fail.
And, I’m telling ya, you’re a Good Dad.
220?
You sound like you’ve had a very good life and have done a very good job of it.
I would say the men that watch MSNBC can definitely be the woman in the house, that is, if they not are already .
MTGOW are feminist tools.
I saw that movie in the theater.
MGTOW is just another form of going GALT.
MGTOW = Wimps who submit to Gloria Steinem. I mean don’t they give feminists everything they want?
No, they refuse to go along with the feminist crap. They live independently from the feminists and only associate with traditional women.
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