Shelly Fagan
2 min readOct 31, 2022

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Awwww good for you, Max, learning how to take care of yourself without a female to help. Kudos to all the smart, capable women who taught you how to properly wash your underwear.

You assume this is an issue of housework, when the inequality of labor is a symptom of a much bigger problem.

A woman’s journey in life sucks in comparison to a man’s. She will have to work much harder to grab what men are given as an entitlement. It’s a fact.

You think it’s about cleaning the house and doing the laundry, but it’s about childcare, wages, career opportunities— everything. It’s even about how men won’t move out of the way on the sidewalk or how they talk over women in meetings. And the fact that you don’t acknowledge any of it is the real issue. You simply ignore the hundreds of micro aggressions we experience daily and then conclude it’s about who takes out the trash. You are so oblivious to the plight of half the population that we are beginning to think this ignorance maybe isn’t so willful.

Like you said, you don’t care. That’s obvious to women. We get it now. You don’t care about how much more work a woman faces in her life based on her gender alone. You don’t care that women are constantly on guard about getting raped by men. You don’t care that men are hostile or that a woman is more likely to be killed by her husband when she’s pregnant. You don’t care. You never cared. You never will.

It’s great that you put it out there because more women are opting out of relationships as a result. We didn’t need your permission, we did it anyway. You’re kind of late to the realization. And we are much happier. The happiest women are those who are single and child-free — which really means women are happier not dealing with men. Congratulations on your awesome achievement you just unlocked of driving away partners.

But you men aren’t happier. I wonder why? Could it be because men benefit from all that free labor? While older women reject relationships, men don’t but are finding it difficult to find someone to date. There is a great study about how men are lonely because they told women to not expect them to change.

That’s why there are 80 men on dating apps for every 20 women and that gulf is widening. We took it to heart.

You don’t have to tell women to not date men who are poor candidates for relationships, Max. Women made that decision a long time ago without you and we are educating the younger generations.

But you rock on in your amazing life of scrubbing your kitchen floor and watching porn. Don’t worry about the ladies. Oh, and you missed a spot.

We are doing fine without you, Max.

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Shelly Fagan
Shelly Fagan

Written by Shelly Fagan

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