• chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    It’s often an enforcement of gender roles, but you also see issues the reverse way for helplessness and incompetence: old men who do not know how to cook or handle any household chores because their wives always did it for them.

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      1 day ago

      I had a roommate like that. He was divorced and seemed to be proud of the fact that he didn’t know how to cook.

      Gender roles are just another artificial barrier that helps to rob your life of joy and meaning.