Reinforcing gender roles
I saw a photo of Paul on someone's feed where he's pulling laundry out of the washing machine at Forthlin Rd. in 1963. It's a cute photo! I'd put it here, but the file I found was too large. I'm sure most of you know which photo I'm talking about, though.
There were more than a couple of people in the tags calling Paul "gay", a "tradwife", etc. for doing laundry. This reinforces gender roles, which says that men shouldn't be doing laundry or else they'll be mistaken for a woman or a gay man. I'd like to note that these people might have been joking with their tags on the photo, but I don't know if they are, which is why I thought I'd say something. I'm obviously not going to say who they are, because it doesn't matter, but I think that any time you chastise men for doing household chores that was considered to be "women's work" you're just reinforcing the patriarchy and rigid gender roles. Knowing how to do laundry is a life skill, not a gender role. Maybe it's because I'm older than a lot of fans here, and have witnessed women's hard-won rights, that I don't find it amusing to joke about Paul being gay or a tradwife for doing something men should have been doing for a very long time. If anyone has noticed, women are losing their rights in the US because men and their handmaidens of the patriarchy supporters want to shove us back into the kitchen because they're freaking out that we've gained power and agency over the decades. Women around the world are also facing setbacks in their rights and are being relegated to only the household sphere.
People can say whatever they want on their feeds, I'm not going to say that they can't, but I'd just like people to think a bit before they perpetuate these ideas, even as a joke.