“No sense in letting my 40 identical gingham blouses go to waste.”

  • Delphia@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    If I could find a woman who could pay all our bills on one wage I’d go house husband in a fucking heartbeat. I’m the better cook anyway.

    If you want to make that your personality thats the weird part.

    • ringwraithfish@startrek.website
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      7 months ago

      Same! I tell my wife all the time I’d be happy to be a house husband. Unfortunately, like many families, we need to be a two income household.

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          7 months ago

          Are you me? I’m in the exact same situation. WFH has its benefits, but definitely has some downsides.

          It’s spring break this week so I said fuck it and took the week off. Wasn’t even going to try to juggle work and all the kids home.

        • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          I do the same thing! It’s good for me I’m sure too as I don’t just sit at my computer for 8 straight hours. Laundry, dishes, trash, whatever I’ll do as needed throughout the day.

          I will say though, I’ve started going out more for lunch as dumb as it sounds. If I eat at home I default to eating at my desk which doesn’t help with the staring at the screen all day.

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    ​“​I wanted to live all my internalized misogyny, not just dream about it.”

    “I believe in choosing a marital structure from an arbitrary point in human history and pretending it represents some kind of inviolable rule.”

    “I just couldn’t resist the raw sexual magnetism of an antisocial dipshit who gets all his information from podcast clips on YouTube.”

    Never change, Onion. Never change. <3

  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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    I’m a single cis hetero male in his late 30s. Got to admit I like the trad wife fantasy. But I also recognise it’s just that, a fantasy. Despite the fact it’s unlikely I’d get along with the sort of woman who’d agree to that sort of life, who the hell could even afford it? It’s something politicians can say “they took from you” so we look at “them” to distract from what those polticians are taking from you.

    I work as a Linux engineer (big surprise for a Lemming I know). I don’t make a huge amount of money but it’s still more than most people I know. I live a fairly comfortable life here in a not so great part of a somewhat deprived working class English town. I couldn’t afford to live in the countryside, let alone support someone else whilst there. Maybe if I did have a wife who made our clothes, was able to spend time to shop super frugally and made our food from scratch we’d be OK but we’d still live in relative poverty.

    Is that the hope of these trad wife influencers? That we’ll be so busy churning our own butter and erecting our own barns like the Amish we’ll have no time to react to them conquering the world?