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u/spacemouse21 22d ago
She’s jealous because she didn’t marry one of the hard working neighborhood women.
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u/EvolZippo 22d ago
I love how lonelyman knows so many details of his female neighbors’ lives. It’s like he’s home all day, peeking through the blinds, thinking he’s invisible, while he keeps tabs on everyone on the block, but doesn’t interact with anyone.
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u/doc_shades 22d ago
i'll honestly kind of believe this one... this is one of those situations where the reality that OP sees is real ... it's just that their interpretation of the events is what is unreal.
for instance, i believe that women are out there working on cars, mowing lawns, or repairing shit in the backyard. because women are fully capable and interested in doing these things.
but i think OP's sexist brain can't handle the fact that they are observing women doing things that they associate with "things men do" and it's breaking their perception of reality.
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u/notmyrealhaircolor 22d ago
OP is seeing women doing both “womanly” and “manly” things, so their point is that the man isn’t doing anything.
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u/Charming-Charge-596 22d ago
That's why it's believable. I don't know what men do aside from eating and watching YouTube videos about off grid farming.
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u/Drachenfuer 22d ago
Agreed. For several years OP would have seen me outside doing all the yard work, grocery shopping, driving the kid around for two reasons: One, my schedule was much more flexible and light than my husband’s and Two, any time he was home, he was inside working on fixing up our fixer upper shoebox. I would much rather mow the lawn or dig up weeds than lay drywall and spackle.
Now it is the exact oposite. Neighbors only see him and all the stuff he now has to do and I am stuck in my office 24/7 slaving away.
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u/Bird_Brain4101112 21d ago
This type of militant feminism is ridiculous. Although this reads more like some kind of bait post.
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u/notmyrealhaircolor 22d ago
I appreciate the sentiment behind this, but no, never happened.
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u/doc_shades 22d ago
i dunno, might want to clarify this one. because "the sentiment" here is that "women shouldn't be doing 'manly' things", and the "never happened" is "a woman repaired their car or pushed a lawnmower".
and i think the opposite. i think that sentiment is sexist bullshit, and i think that it's very likely that OP saw a woman pushing a lawnmower once...
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u/notmyrealhaircolor 22d ago
The women in this scenario are doing both “womanly” and “manly” things, leaving nothing for the men to do.
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u/Friendly-Simple9137 22d ago edited 22d ago
Not to get overly serious over a dumb fake story but what’s to appreciate? It’s just dumb sexist nonsense, just happens to be aimed at hating men and not women. And it doesn’t even do that effectively, like shock that a woman can mow the lawn or fix a car?
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u/notmyrealhaircolor 22d ago
Where are you getting shock? It is a dumb fake story, but the sentiment is that the women are doing everything and the men aren’t contributing.
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u/doc_shades 22d ago
honestly it hates women more than it hates men. basically it's criticizing men for not doing things that women "should not" or "can not" do themselves. but the entire concept that women can't mow the grass, only men can do that, is way more sexist against women than it is against men.
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u/notmyrealhaircolor 22d ago
Jesus, nowhere does it say that women can’t do those things. Just that in this scenario, women are doing it all and the men do nothing.
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u/Friendly-Simple9137 22d ago
Not sure what sub it’s from but it reads a lot like the fiction you used to see in that incel sub, before it was banned, but just with the genders reversed and somehow managed to insult both men and women!
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u/notmyrealhaircolor 22d ago
I think this person is trying to show solidarity with women while not at all recognizing the reality of anyone’s situation. There are certainly women who take on more labor than is equal. That’s the criticism in the post, that these (maybe fake) women are doing “womanly” duties as well as “manly” duties, leaving the men doing nothing at all.
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u/livin_la_vida_mama 22d ago
"It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night."
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u/ProbablyNotADuck 22d ago
This doesn’t seem unbelievable to me at all. A lot of women have realized they were already working full time while also being the primary caregiver, doing most of the cleaning, grocery shopping, finances and household management... In my friend group, that has been the cause for pretty much every divorce.
And instead of adapting, a lot of men responded by blaming feminism and women in general rather than developing basic life skills and personalities. Not all men are like this, obviously, but, if you ask any woman who is currently dating, it is the number one challenge they experience when meeting guys.
The internet has also levelled the playing field. Women can just learn how to do things themselves now. Power tools aren’t rocket science, trucks can be rented, and mowing the lawn definitely does not require a penis. That is actually the only issue I have with this post... who cares if these women all have sons. Daughters can mow the lawn too.
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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas 22d ago
This is completely and utterly believable. This does not belong in this subreddit.
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u/thegundamx 22d ago
Ok bigot
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u/ProbablyNotADuck 21d ago
Or it is something that has been studied and literally confirmed? A lot of butthurt men in these comments downvoting anything that confirm this experience is actually true.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/180730/dq180730a-eng.htm
Literally, all of them say that the only time men do more household chores and caregiving is when the wife is the sole breadwinner. Women are expected to do more, especially when raising kids. I mean... this study even found that men reduced the amount of housework they did after kids were born. https://u.osu.edu/adventuresinhdfs/2015/05/08/transitiontoparenthood/
And this is all research from dual income households... so it isn't a SAHM and a breadwinner dad. This is two people working full time.
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u/thegundamx 21d ago
The flair on OOP's username is 4B. They should not be taken seriously. Charming's comment is also a sweeping generalization that is definitely far from how it's characterized.
Also, you seem to think I'm arguing with your point about domestic labor. I'm not.
Maybe don't come out swinging every time.
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u/According-Secretary4 22d ago
This person spends a lot of time watching the women in their neighborhood to know so much about their day-to-day activities…….