Our society has a number of loveable buffoons who fool around and are excused from acting like prats because theyāre funny. They might be rubbish at most things but as long as their banter is flowing, we put up with it.
These types are almost exclusively men. You donāt get hilarious, idiotic women being lorded as icons of our culture. Diane Abbott is dismissed as a cretin while Boris Johnson is a joker.
Which begs the question: is conscious male incompetence a form of misogyny?
If you labour the point that you canāt cook, then chances are that you wonāt be made to cook. If you make a hash out of doing the laundry or hoovering, youāre forcing someone else to take over.
Few have the patience to watch someone do a job badly over and over again and so often, theyāll just take it upon themselves to do your chores as well as their own. Emotional labour is doubled when youāve got an incompetent clown on your hands.
I was recently listening Semi Circles, a BBC radio comedy starring Paula Wilcox, first broadcast in 1989.
Itās about a housewife who recently wakes up to the fact that sheās spent the past eight years being a slave to her kids and nice-but-emotionally-dim husband.
Part of this awakening is the realisation that she does all the housework because her husband is crap at it. Left alone, he makes inedible food. He lets the kids stay up well beyond their bedtime. He leaves the house a tip.Ā
He doesnāt even try to do a good job because he fears that if heās too good at these jobs, his wife will make him do more of them.
https://metro.co.uk/2017/11/01/male-incompetence-is-a-subtle-form-of-misogyny-7046248/
Put these garbage men in the garbage where they belong.
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