It's just laundry - nothing to be embarrassed about

Oh jeez. What girls can’t pick up pants and put them somewhere else 😂 Also, the pants were clean.

I wouldn’t want to sort out my mum/ sisters/ brothers underwear so it’s very understandable why a teenage boy doesn’t want to.

You're totally confusing 'want' and 'enjoy' with 'shit that has to be done'. There are loads of things I don't want to do, I still have to do them. Should I excuse my husband from emptying the bin with the San pro in it? It's a job that has to be done, so he does it. Not mentally scarred this far thank god.

Who taught me (a woman) that I never would have wanted to handle my parent’s underwear? As far as I’m aware I came to that conclusion all by my myself.

I honestly don’t believe we’d be getting some of the replies on here if it had been a teenage girl complaining about her dad’s pants. It would have been ooh yeah I wouldn’t want to handle my dads y fronts as a teenage either. Posts would be all supportive of her distaste for men’s undercrackers.

YABU. I would have hated to touch my dad's boxers as a teen (still wouldn't be thrilled at the idea tbh🤢).

" I can't imagine most fathers enjoy picking up dirty underwear either. But someone has to do it."

Well, yes, the person whose dirty underwear it is! (small children and certain disabilities excepted).

Dont understand that all. My boys are 17,18 and put the washing out when i need them to that includes my underwear and they dont bat an eyelid.

And will put my clean underwear on my bed when they take the washing up if im at work.

They dont put dirty washing on, but to be fair they would if they asked them to, including my stuff, what difference does it make?

I find that attitude ridiculous. My sons care not a hoot about loading my knickers and bras into a wash nor sorting them out of the dryer.

These archaic attitudes of being awkward and embarrassed are taught.

Grand.

I’ll definitely make sure to avoid your posts.

Oh dear. Not this again. You just wait until each person has a full load. A person may have one load a week, just as they would if they lived alone, doesn't mean they have loads of clothes.

Me neither. Nor my dad's y-fronts and that doesn't make me a misandrist!

Don't quote me then?

I'm with you. When he's living with someone he can't avoid washing underwear in case he has to see someone else's pants.

But boys can also empty the laundry basket?

But do teenage girls need to be taught respect if they complain about not wanting to deal with their dad’s underwear? You said boys need to learn to respect women so the same must surely go for girls?

Ths is not aimed at Daniel Gault who has responded to my query to someone else.

Nobody wants to do that fgs. But if that's the set up in the household, you just do it. It's not child abuse. It's just yuck. I don't want to go near anyone else's kecks tbh. But sometimes, you just have to do it. I can't imagine most fathers enjoy picking up dirty underwear either. But someone has to do it.

What about girls who don’t want to handle their dad’s y fronts? Do they need to be taught respect as well and respect a bit of skid?

Yanbu, just clean clothes but we are a house of women except dp. He regularly folds adult dd and dsd's laundry and they have no embarrassment at all, they are lazy and happy for him to do it!

Don’t be pathetic! Girls have knickers! Wait until he finds out about periods.

Teach your sons normality with girls stuff!!! Teach your sons to treat women with respect. God forbid what will happen if a girlfriend has a period.

no one’s asking him to sit there and sniff their bloody knickers just chuck it in a pile and walk it up the stairs. Jesus the way we baby boys is ridiculous.

Getting snappy? Having an opinion is not getting snappy.

Again, I said nothing about wanting anything. I didn't 'want' to wash the dishes. I just did the job. I didn't inspect anyone's underwear, I grabbed, ran, and dumped. My family didn't implode, neither did I.

Ooh, getting snappy and deviating from your initial posts because numerous posters have pointed out how ridiculous you are.

My post was long because I wanted to explain all my points so you couldn't come back with anything to refute.

And you couldn't so the only thing you can grasp is"ooh too long and detailed". .

Other posters are much more succinct in handing your arse to you. .

The Daniel Gault i'm thinking of would never..

Enjoy 😉

It is not about being a family it is about being prepared for adult life which involves knowing to do your laundry before you run out of underwear, knowing how to manage each stage of the washing process so you don't leave wet stuff in the washing machine for days, knowing where your favourite top is and making sure it is washed and clean to go out on Saturday night. Maybe having to juggle washing around working and studying. Possibly having to share washing facilities with lots of other people in halls. Knowing which clothes can go into the tumble dryer. Side benefit being he doesn't have to handle your underwear. It means that there is one less thing to have to learn when moving out.

Each person does a mixed load about once a week which fills the machine (all adult size). Not many whites but those are pooled together and go on with youngest ds school shirts as he is not yet in sixth form I still wash his clothes but he brings them down and takes them back up. I still do towels etc otherwise no one else probably would.

Apologies for misquoting you. I still think it’s totally normal though for teenage boys to not want to handle mum’s underwear 😁