Do you ever iron your wife’s shirts?
No. But I do the things she needs me to do ... (fix and maintain the cars, mow the lawn, pay the bills, etc.). And, she does the things I need her to do. That one just happens to be something that she does.
This isn’t an argument about domestic division of labor ... its about respect for your spouse (or for anyone but yourself).
And - its a joke. I’m not arguing that the poster at the protest was a highly crafted argument ... its a joke, and a fairly crude one. And, like most humor, it is funny because its based on a grain of truth ... that feminist women are, generally speaking, among the most self-centered people on this planet.
For those feminists that are married, their marriages are rarely about what they can do to provide happiness for their spouse ... instead they’re entirely about how the marriage is affecting them (how their spouse is oppressive, or what he’s doing to end patriarchy, or whatever). They’d slit their wrists before ironing a shirt for a man (the oppressive bastard). [Which, incidentally, is why I never could’ve married a feminist ... I don’t want to debate womens’ sufferage everytime I ask if she’d kindly make me a sandwich].
Like I said, the joke wouldn’t make sense at a protest populated by conservative women.
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