Men cannot rid themselves of this subconscious mindset that we are there to serve, affirm and validate them at all costs.
Tradesmen ask me to make them tea/coffee and sometimes even food. I’ve never seen them ask DH for so much as a glass of water.
At work it’s always the women offering to do tea and coffee rounds. Fuck that shit, I don’t offer any more.
When my sexist in laws come for dinner they’re always ‘surprised’ when it is DH cooking, and see it as proof that I’ve castrated him and am lazy. ‘Mr Soup is cooking is he? Well, that’s a surprise! Why is he doing that?’ Etc
On the postnatal ward, after giving birth I wanted a bath. With some effort due to being cut ear to ear I got myself down the corridor to the communal bathroom (1 bath, no showers) to find one of the dads had decided to take a leisurely soak in it and I would have to come back later 😳
Surrogacy and expecting women to allow themselves to be put at extra risk to affirm and validate biological men is absolutely no different. OJ might not be asking his female colleagues to bring him refreshments but it all comes from exactly the same place. He’s no better than your average postnatal ward bath hogger…