Idiot Hypocrisy: The Division of Labor in American Marriages
Rebutting the One-Sided, Feminist-Inspired Portrayal of Work Done by Husbands & Wives
Feminists, like QAnon believers, aren’t much into reading anything that violates their sacred beliefs.
To provide simple evidence that doesn’t require (much) reading, I’m using images to visually illustrate why so much of feminism’s sacred beliefs are just a bunch of bull crap.
This installment rebuts the one-sided, feminist-inspired accounting of the division of labor in marriages. Here’s what feminists don’t want people to know:
Feminists Often Lie About the Division of Labor Between Men and Women
“Wives Do Two Jobs While Their Husbands Only Work One.”
“When comparing combined work both inside and outside the home, the average man worked sixty-one hours per week, the average woman fifty-six” — Journal of Economic Literature, 1991 (as cited in The Myth of Male Power)
Many Surveys About Housework Misrepresent or Even Ignore Facts
“Who does more housework, men or women? There are many informal surveys and also a large academic literature on the subject. Care is needed because many informal surveys are clearly skewed.” — The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect
“Other activities such as home repairs, mowing the lawn, and shoveling snow were not in the study. ‘Items such as gardening are usually viewed as more enjoyable; the focus here is on core housework’.” — Chore Wars: Men, Women and Housework
Some Other Things About Housework That Feminists Don’t Want You to Know
Women Often Don’t Respect “Housewife Husbands”
“According to a Norwegian study, divorce rates are 50% higher for couples who share the housework compared to those where the woman takes on most of the responsibility.” — Should Men Do Housework?
Post-publication note: when I originally wrote this post, I had Googled and found a few dozen other articles that wrote about higher divorce rates for house husbands, but while doing research for another post, I discovered that many of these entries were based on this same Norwegian study. I did, however, find a few other studies that came to the same conclusion, most notably one from Salary.com:
“…more than one-quarter of women (26%) said they flat-out refuse to even entertain the notion of working full-time while supporting a husband who stays home and takes care of the kids and house.”
Men Are Automatically Assigned “Icky” Chores
From the NY Times, Taking Out the Trash? That’s Still a Man’s Job, Even for the Liberal Coastal Elite. A must-read on how women get out of trash duty.
Much of “Inside Work” Done by Wives is “Non-Essential”, While “Outside Work” Done by Men is “Essential”
“Let’s be clear: my wife does important stuff around the house, too. Still, if I were to die tomorrow … all of ‘my’ work around the house would still need to happen. All of it. And here I mean ‘need to happen’ in a literal sense: not how a room ‘needs updating, but how you ‘need’ to get out of your driveway to go to work …” — Outsiders: The Gender Balance of Housework, Inside and Out. Must reading for all disgruntled wives!
Men and Women Have Different Wants and Needs About “Housework”
“Feminists want women to work like men do, right? Why not try living like men, too? Put down the duster. It’ll be okay.” — A Really Easy Answer to the Feminist Housework Problem
Finally, if feminists truly want equality in the division of labor between husband and wife, perhaps they should start killing their own spiders: