To think this is an incredibly sexist statement to put on FB?

[twinklingfairy]

Remembered to get a carrot for Rudolph, forgot to get more sellotape.... FFS! This Christmas stuff is much easier when you've got a woman doin it for you..

BIL statement for tonight.

This after claiming that he needed a 'bird' to remember his niece and Nephews birthdays.

Youllbewaiting... Yes, I see what you mean. I thought about that, specifically the typically male jobs - taking out the bins, mending cars, putting oil in the car, taking rubbish to the tip, just as examples. I think fathers would possibly teach their sons these things automatically - perhaps not their daughters? I don't know... maybe they would?

Maybe both mothers and fathers would make a point of teaching their children to do all the chores that need doing? That was the point I was making in my last sentence, although scuppered it by referring to mothers (as primary carers) when it could just as easily be fathers....

I kind of think your BIL is right OP, although I'd switch it to role rather than gender.

My mother used to quote some 1970s feminist slogan that "Everyone needs a wife" and went on to cite all the wifely things that all of us would enjoy delegating.

There are many many more things to get bothered about.
This isn't one of them by a long chalk.

A lot of women refuse to be taught by their DH's to mend the car/change a tyre/change the oil.

Or they'll learn but still ask their DH to do it if he's around.

That in itself is teaching their DD's that mum considers it men's work.

He's saying what most men are thinking.

My DH told my 11 year old DS that he doesn't do that kind of thing as he as a bird.

DS said "if she is a bird she is a mother hen, and if she is a hen you know what that makes you."

I think women are fighting back now and mothers are bringing up their children to do chores rather than specific, previously typical male/female ones.

Sadly, I see almost daily evidence that things haven't really progressed as much as we'd like to think.

You honestly, genuinely, only need to spend 3 minutes on the Relationships forum of MN to find evidence that a majority of relationships still have the traditiaonl labour divide, and the same old stereotypes are being perpetuated.

I've taken to simply not reading certain threads on MN because I know that I'll be in the minority. Some off the top of my head:

• Anything relating to emergency childcare / importance of careers where a "D"H has to take any sort of hit
• What a mother does (emotional/organisation/planning bias) vs. what a father does around the house
• Judgements of women vs. judgements of men.. e.g. spending time talking about what's best for the children wrt to SAHM/working mums... rather than talking about SAHP or working parents. When was the last time you overheard/read of a majority of blokes in your family/friend circle stressing about whether to go on a business trip or go part-time because of being a dad?
• Have you read the threads where a woman asks whether toy gender stereotyping is bad/good?

and so on and so on.

In 2011, we are not yet treated equally... and as I've seen more threads similar to the above on MN over the years, the more upsetting it is to see that a HUGE number of women perpetuate the same old nonsense just as strongly as some men can/do.