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Jun. 3rd, 2023 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/dining/fathers-day-dad-food.html
Whenever I read an article in the Dining or Style sections, I always go right to the comments. I have a game I like to play. I scroll down and start counting how many comments I'll pass before I bump into somebody complaining that there must be more important things to write about, this isn't serious journalism.
I mean, yeah, it's a puff piece in the food section of the paper tenuously connected to Father's Day.
I wonder if people are like this in the sports section as well?
Anyway, that's not the only reason I'm making this post! That article touches very lightly on the chore division in households headed by a heterosexual couple. Now, all the data says that overall, women in those relationships do more cleaning, more childcare (especially the difficult or boring stuff), more eldercare, more cooking, more scheduling, and just more work... even if both partners are engaged in full-time paid employment. Obviously some individual couples are different from the norm.
However, you'll be pleased to note, if you haven't already, that there is one area in which men are overwhelmingly picking up the slack, and that is scouring the internet for articles like these in which to comment that their home is egalitarian and the same is true for all the men they know!
Such gentlemen. They're so devoted to taking on this burden that you'll almost never see a woman forced to comment that her husband and her brothers and all her male friends actually do pull their own weight. Nope, the men have gallantly got that chore covered.
Whenever I read an article in the Dining or Style sections, I always go right to the comments. I have a game I like to play. I scroll down and start counting how many comments I'll pass before I bump into somebody complaining that there must be more important things to write about, this isn't serious journalism.
I mean, yeah, it's a puff piece in the food section of the paper tenuously connected to Father's Day.
I wonder if people are like this in the sports section as well?
Anyway, that's not the only reason I'm making this post! That article touches very lightly on the chore division in households headed by a heterosexual couple. Now, all the data says that overall, women in those relationships do more cleaning, more childcare (especially the difficult or boring stuff), more eldercare, more cooking, more scheduling, and just more work... even if both partners are engaged in full-time paid employment. Obviously some individual couples are different from the norm.
However, you'll be pleased to note, if you haven't already, that there is one area in which men are overwhelmingly picking up the slack, and that is scouring the internet for articles like these in which to comment that their home is egalitarian and the same is true for all the men they know!
Such gentlemen. They're so devoted to taking on this burden that you'll almost never see a woman forced to comment that her husband and her brothers and all her male friends actually do pull their own weight. Nope, the men have gallantly got that chore covered.
