"Id love to get a truely honest answer as to who buys [goes out and gets] and wraps all the gifts at christmas time among the MN members. "
DH and I decide together what the dcs and other family etc are having for xmas, plan the budget together, I buy probably 2/3 of it, online or in town, dh picks up bits too, other stuff we pick up together. As I said upthread, this is because dh works away all week.
Wrapping- I do small bits in the day while the kids are at school, but the rest we wrap together over a couple of evenings and dh secretes it all away in the garage/shed/kitchen loft in bin bags. I cook christmas dinner, I enjoy it, but I've never washed a single plate or glass on the day, dh does it all. He also helps with the serving, setting the table etc. We are equally busy on the day, I prefer cooking with a few glasses of wine than sorting out the batteries/assembling a zillion toys.
Most importantly he respects me, as I do him. He would never let me sit on a shitty pouffe after slogging away in the kitchen, and he would never say "what's for tea love" the second I sat down.
It's not about who does what, it's about respect for one another and not being an entitled fat twat sitting like a dependant child while wifey serves you dinner.
The ad could have been salvaged by scenes of the husband helping with serving/dishes/attending to the guests.