‘I feel like a 1950s housewife’: how lockdown has exposed the gender divide

[Villanelle 4,121]

LOL its obvious MSNBC labeled their chart backwards. The numbers are all correct but the headings of men and women are flip flopped. Most likely the mistake was done by a man! bwahaha

 

 

[cyclone27 710]

Hmmm I clean house, cook 3 days a week, and do laundry always.

 

Now that I’ve been working home for months I look after lil ones I between when wife needs to do smth. Oh and I gotten glorious duty of potty training my 3yr old son.

 

Dare I ask what would you do if I wasn’t working at home!!! 🥴

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

4 hours ago, Gobucks! said:

 

Semi-accurate in this house. 

[Gobucks! 17]

4 hours ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Semi-accurate in this house. 

Mine, too, actually. But, I’ll admit, I don’t believe anything on that channel or CNN.

[laylalex 7,252]

Not much has changed here, although we don't have our cleaner in any longer (though I am paying her) and I have to do deep cleans of the kitchen and bathrooms. Also I have to fold the fitted sheets, which I detest, but I am doing it after being tempted by a pickup/dropoff laundry service. Alex still pretty much only takes out the trash. And of course I do the vast majority of the cooking, though he is being more helpful these days, chopping things for me and at least convincingly pretending to pay attention when I show him how to cook things. No, I'm being cruel, he is paying attention. I think.

 

Frustrated because I was getting ready to go back to work when the pandemic hit. I did housewife before and I'm kind of over it.

[Boiler 43,595]

Sadly there has been very little media coverage of those suffering without their usual domestic help. They need more recognition of the sacrifices they have made.

[Ban Hammer 12,861]

9 hours ago, laylalex said:

Not much has changed here, although we don't have our cleaner in any longer (though I am paying her) and I have to do deep cleans of the kitchen and bathrooms. Also I have to fold the fitted sheets, which I detest, but I am doing it after being tempted by a pickup/dropoff laundry service. Alex still pretty much only takes out the trash. And of course I do the vast majority of the cooking, though he is being more helpful these days, chopping things for me and at least convincingly pretending to pay attention when I show him how to cook things. No, I'm being cruel, he is paying attention. I think.

 

Frustrated because I was getting ready to go back to work when the pandemic hit. I did housewife before and I'm kind of over it.

alex works so hard.  you should make him a sammich.

[Boiler 43,595]

Alex is my hero.

[laylalex 7,252]

🙄

 

You do know I read him these things and it only encourages him. I have to deal with his ego inflating. But he knows this is an equal partnership and we contribute in the ways we can, while being open to learning new ways to balance the load.

[Boiler 43,595]

Should it not be whilst not while?

 

so should read - whilst him being open to learning new ways....

[Neonred 3,454]

1 minute ago, Boiler said:

 

so should read - whilst him being open to learning new ways....

That's not American English.

[laylalex 7,252]

5 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Should it not be whilst not while?

 

so should read - whilst him being open to learning new ways....

 

3 minutes ago, Neonred said:

That's not American English.

Thank you, Neonred. I am happy using my own language.  

[Boiler 43,595]

23 minutes ago, Neonred said:

That's not American English.

A quick ToS reminder, English only in the upper forums, any other languages are OK in the regional forums.

[laylalex 7,252]

14 minutes ago, Boiler said:

A quick ToS reminder, English only in the upper forums, any other languages are OK in the regional forums.

But it is my VJ Cake Day. Don't I get a pass today?

[Ban Hammer 12,861]

54 minutes ago, laylalex said:

But it is my VJ Cake Day. Don't I get a pass today?

there's a cake day on the wine calendar?