My husband has never learned to cook and he does no laundry and next to no cleaning.

30 that’s like ancient right?

It sounds like you and your circle of male friends share similar handyman skills. But, and I mean this in the most polite way possible, I think it’s a mistake to speak for all men and imply they can all build a deck, fix a faulty light switch, or fix a fence. Like I said, in your social group this seems to be the…

also—my mom and i were the ones who did most of the gardening/yard work, as well as the ones who built the deck in the back of the house (with my uncle’s help, as he had just finished building his own and it was more than a one-person-one-child job).

Thank you. The two examples brijazz mentioned are silly. I’ve been living on my own for over ten years now and not once have I needed to mend a fence, fix a door, etc., “and so forth” (???). My husband impressed the hell out of me once when we accidentally locked ourselves inside a friend’s house whose cat we were…

There’s a beautiful short story I’ve read about how domestic tasks somehow become desirable when men do them. It’s called `Simmering’ by Margaret Atwood. Reading it, I had a `down the rabbit hole’ moment when I finally realized that society places more value on many professions because they are viewed as masculine,…

In most of the households I know, neither one can build a fence or fix a door, etc. Repairing drywall is easy so that’s no biggie. But in the current era just about everyone I know hires someone to do these annoying, not very common repairs.

I am a woman, and though i’ve never been married (only affianced briefly in college), i can and do all those things you listed quite well.

welcome to the reality that women have been living for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

The male outrage for this should be delicious, as they wring their hands over their world slipping away (or whatever it is that pisses them off about stuff like this.)

I keep reading the title as “Our Brand Is In Crisis”. Too many meetings.

Agreed. This way it’s pitched as a girly version of a guy’s film instead of just a goddamn movie.

Am I the only one that feels re: this and Ghostbusters, that I would vastly prefer a brand new movie that casts women? Rather than the weird, gimmicky, "lets make the same movie only this time we will take lady money!"

I will always see a Lady Team movie and I will always see a heist movie, so I am SUPER IN for this.

That’s a pretty succinct summary of how I feel about most Hollywood movies: guys, maybe make some *good* original movies? Every time I watch movies from the 90s and back, I think “No way they would or could make such an awesome movie today.” Recently thought while watching Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Midnight Run, and…

No, this is a stupid idea. I do not approve.

Wait... They’re remaking this movie again? Wasn’t the Clooney remake enough?

This. I have been cooking all my life and I am pretty good at it, but my ex took exactly one cooking class and suddenly he is following me around the kitchen realizing my onions because the dicing was uneven.

The minute my then-boyfriend-now-husband started cleaning, our sex life was incredible. I came home from one of my super days (class 8-2, internship 3-6, class 7-9) planning to at least tidy up, and I came home to a sparkling house, dinner and a clean bong.

This. It took me breaking it down like this to impress upon my husband that him contributing more to the housework = more sex because I’m not exhausted and irritated that I had to do it all myself.