"Women typically only do what they care about"

but but you're so much better at cleaning the stove than I am and and I'm so much better at video games! I better play this video game while you clean the stove.

a football game is FUN. CHORES are called CHORES for a reason. Your wife should throw in a red shirt with your whites and you'll see how fun it is to be constantly sabotaged by a partner who resents chores. You don't care? You will when all your shirts are pink.

"I'm not eating off of the toilet"

but it's not all about you anymore, get it? Why should anyone else live in your filth?

you don't get to do only the things you enjoy doing. That is called being a grown up. What if she also hates painting. Who picks up the slack?

I refer you the ProfessorPink's comment and link. This avoidance strategy is so common and well known there are actually academic studies on it. And yeah, many of these guys would claim they are not trying to be manipulative, such is their depth of self-knowledge. Really it's just so so common it's laughable.

fair enough. On the other hand, if he doesn;t shape up they'll be damaged anyway.

um no, many many guys simply refuse to do mundane work unless it's something they don't mind doing. The notion that all the other non fun has to get done is lost on them. I've seen it way too often in relationships. Complaining about how he was hammered for not doing it right is another one of the avoidance…

the problem is that someone who behaves this way is not a grown up so there's no reasoning with them.

put it on youtube. Public humiliation will shape him up.

This article describes little boys, i.e. children, not men. I'm not a pedophile so this behavior is a huge turnoff. 'Stop Babying Men' should be a feminist rally cry.

THIS. Its a way of avoiding mundane work ( bill paying, trip organizing, directions lookup). It's so childish.

the contexts are so different that the wholesale lateral transference of your values is meaningless. You are assuming that all subject positions are independent of context.

you do not understand context. The context of a mall in the UAE is not the same as your bumfuck southern town.

Craftsmanship? you mean making figurines? Cosplay? I rest my case.

The UAE don't need your stinking tourist dollars. They have more money than God from oil.

THIS.

asking someone to dress appropriately is not oppression. I think Americans have a very hard time with this. In many parts of the world how you dress shows how much you respect the people around you. Americans in general dress terribly and without respect. Where I come from, someone who wears sports clothes outside the…

I think you need a broader notion of culture. It's not all about you, y'know.