Hey guys forget laundry: Give it to your woman
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Well America isn’t the only country without a sense of humor when it comes to diminishing women in the Santorum age. It seems someone in London decided that women and men have distinctly different roles, and doing laundry is not the role of a man. Check out this story from our friends at NPR:
When Emma Barnett saw the laundry tag in her boyfriend’s pants she was shocked.
“Give It To Your Woman,” it read. “It’s Her Job.”
So Barnett did what you would expect the digital media editor of The Telegraph would do. She posted the photo online and started tweeting.
One day later, the twitterverse was in a tizzy and she had turned up the name of the company responsible.
“The beige pair of chinos in question were purchased in London at Madhouse’s flagship Oxford Street store last month,” Barnett reported Tuesday. And a company spokesman told her “the care instructions on this product were not proofed by our buyers who normally concern themselves with quality, style and price of the products they order. … The wording is clearly meant as a joke but now it has been pointed out to us it is something we will need to be more careful about in the future.”
If you’re interested in following the Twitter debate, which continues, the proper search term is #sexisttrousers.
What do you think? Is doing the laundry strictly a woman’s job?
Hat tip to Julie 🙂
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My husband and I share the laundry, unless it’s a load of my really nice sweaters, then Captain Silk Shrinker is not allowed anywhere NEAR them. But it’s “her job?” Yeah, I got your job right here, asshats.
I think it depends on the household. If two people come together and agree that it’s a fair division of labor for the woman to always do the laundry if the man, say, is always responsible for emptying mouse traps, more power to them. I suppose that’s true of any shared household though, in which the parties involved need to determine a fair/equitable/mutually acceptable division of responsibilities.
That said, to assume a woman will fulfill a particular role by virtue of her gender is bullsh*t. If laundry were “naturally” a woman’s role, it would be acceptable for single men to haul their dirty boxers to the closest female (neighbor, banker, CEO, whatever) to do it for him. I don’t see why that type of gender-based entitlement is any less absurd in the context of a relationship.
What the fuck is this? Who would do shit like this in the 21st century? I’ll do my husband’s fucking laundry when he does my fucking job. Sorry for all the fucks but this made me boil Mike.