OK, but that isn’t at all what the original essay was about. Not in the slightest. The blog about it twisted it into something close to what you said. But gender roles and patriarchy were not the subjects of the original essay.

The actual essay you’re snarking on was a pretty innocent take on how a man thought hiring a maid meant he wouldn’t have to do the housework he was already doing if he and his wife agreed to get a maid. And the man apparently did that housework without the belief that such work is beneath him because he has certain…