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@WashedOutGundamPilot @Sprayfoam_Sal
To this day, I think the best example is the oldest one.

"I won't make you a sandwitch, you're an adult, you can make it yourself" is the oldest one, but it still stands. Making a sandwitch takes 2 minutes FFS.

@Sprayfoam_Sal @LukeAlmighty As long as it’s appreciated. It hurts seeing a woman put in the requisite work to keep a home presentable to an HGTV-worthy degree without anyone in the family appreciating or noting it.

By the same token, she should appreciate it when we put in the work to bring home a paycheck to keep things running smoothly. Girls balk at the idea of greeting us at the door, write articles about how terrible it is to be told to greet her hubby with a kiss and a smile, but it really is an insanely cheap way to motivate us

interviewer: give me an example of a time when you took control of a situation

me: no, YOU give ME an example

interviewer: lol okay, that was pretty impressive

me: I’m afraid we’re going to have to let you go

interviewer: *being led away by security* what is happening right now

@todayilearned
Old: "the system crashed because I put in 0 to the computer"
vs
New: "Update in progress. Please, don't turn off the computer until the update is complete"

@LukeAlmighty The Cult of Oprah really made hay out of talking up the gamut of domestic chores, and it never went away.

Laundry isn’t hard, cleaning isn’t hard, even cooking isn’t hard. The things that made them tiresome and difficult have largely been automated, and the only way they ARE tough to do is when you have a big family, with children (poorly parented) constantly undoing all your work as you go.

THAT is indeed hard and thankless, but women never made that distinction, instead saying “being a stay at home mom is the HARDEST job you’ll ever have!!!!” to boost each other’s ego. Now, their daughters are living alone and parroting that same idea without ever realizing that they’re at MOST doing the laundry for 2 people with more automation than ever and ordering food off an app for every meal.

Once heard a work-girl complaining about how cruel her aunt was, because she was talking about how amazing her job was being able to travel and see the world only to hear the lady say oh….that just sounds very empty, not having anyone to share your life with.

It must have struck true because it really, REALLY got to that girl for weeks afterward

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@WashedOutGundamPilot
I used to be afraid of the laundry when I was in high school too. But that was, because it was always described as this infinitely complex artform.

Then I found, that If I throw all the clothes together, to the washing machine, let it dry and... that's it. The exact fucking same result. I don't even need to iron unless I feel extra snobby.

It honestly amazes me how loveless people are today. They’re so self-centered that every little thing they do has to be about them.

We don’t have a firm system, sometimes she does it, sometimes I do. I still don’t like how she insists on folding all my stuff all neat and tidy, I think it’s a waste of time for the underwear and workout gear, and she doesn’t like it when I wash clothes with the bedsheets. We just don’t think about it all that much, we don’t have any problems taking care of each other. Shit like this is weird.

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@ferrarilegends @WashedOutGundamPilot
> The solution is more financial security

Oh really? Being payed by the state and your ex at once is not enough for you?

@WashedOutGundamPilot >complains about atomization and isolation of individuals in modern-day society
>thinks the solution is for women to become even more atomized and isolated by not having families of their own
???

@WashedOutGundamPilot
I love how women always assume I want them to be working full time. Some of them even got insulted, when I mentioned, that I want a stay at home mother.

Fuck, why do you think I was working for the last 20 years to get a job with this kind of income? To buy you a new purse every week?

Youch. Can’t wait for bitter, condescending fools like this to hold every position of management and leadership in this country alongside 91 IQ foreigners

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