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Women are fat because they don't do enough housework!!!!

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Aeroflotgirl · 27/08/2015 10:42

[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3211814/Lack-housework-making-women-fat-time-working-time-scrubbing-contributed-obesity-crisis-study-claims.html#comments]]

Daily Male, women bashing yet again, so men are incapable of picking up a vacuume or a duster then! What with JSP comments about women past 20 not wearing bikinis. I used to like the DM, after reading this and a couple of others, I know why you all hate it.

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Aeroflotgirl · 27/08/2015 10:43

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3211814/Lack-housework-making-women-fat-time-working-time-scrubbing-contributed-obesity-crisis-study-claims.html#comments

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howtorebuild · 27/08/2015 10:43

They also say first born Women are fatter.

ArgyMargy · 27/08/2015 10:44

Weeeellllll, speaking as someone who has a 3-storey house with 3 bathrooms, I've always maintained that my extreme housework Saturdays are equivalent to 6 hours in the gym...

SillyStuffBiting · 27/08/2015 10:45

Erm....

Macadaamia · 27/08/2015 10:46

I've got a house like that argy! I agree!

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Aeroflotgirl · 27/08/2015 10:49

The comments after that article, mainly sexist men that I would not want dd having anything to do with.

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scarlets · 27/08/2015 10:51

I don't want to click through to the DM but it makes sense to me. Labour-saving housework devices mean fewer calories expended. Women traditionally did the bulk of the housework in the days of no washing machines/vacuum cleaners etc so it's likely that they were using up more energy.

I suspect that the DM is using this as an opportunity to bash working women so I've no interest in reading the article.

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Aeroflotgirl · 27/08/2015 10:51

How do you explain obese men, not enough house work, too many MaccyD .

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Dadistired1 · 27/08/2015 10:51

Rubbish, its not house work that makes people fat it refined sugar filled, sat fat filled food. So a dishwasher saves housework time that is more time to go to the gym but most people don't say or do that with their spare time.

On another note I see the mail's sidebar of shame is still going strong.

LostMySanityCanIBorrowYours · 27/08/2015 10:51

So what's making men fat? Do they burn calories differently to women?

I'm confused.

abbieanders · 27/08/2015 10:52

The thinnest woman I know does no housework at all. Exercises constantly, though. She never cooks (and barely eats), too.

That's the women for you, all substandard in many key respects.

Quiero · 27/08/2015 10:52

honestly, you have to laugh don't you. Do they have no editorial boundaries. Scraping the bottom of the barrel for stories now aren't they. There's a story in there somewhere ?et they manage to miss it completely and find the most sexist angle they can run with.

Saying that, I was moaning to DH las night that I'd spent my whole day (on leave from work) doing housework. He said "Oh well, just think of all the calories you'll have burned off"

Twat.

Dadistired1 · 27/08/2015 10:54

The comments are appalling as always.

winchester1 · 27/08/2015 10:55

Even if there is a grain if truth in this where's the article on why men are fat?
Should they all be out growing veg, logging, tending animals, working manual jobs etc.
People on the whole have less active lives and burn less calories that labour saving devices are part of this is hardly ground breaking journalism. Although the devices do mean higher standards and more actual time spent on many household jobs.

nancy75 · 27/08/2015 10:56

I'm fat because I like cake and my house is spotless!

SchnitzelVonKrumm · 27/08/2015 11:00

The Mail's typically sexist spin aside, it's true that people generally did more manual labour in the past - men at work and women in the home - and so expended more calories.
So the rise of labour saving devices in all spheres is probably helping to make us fat.

NewLife4Me · 27/08/2015 11:07

I do think there's a point to it though.
I'm not suggesting we go back to the 50's btw, but when women did do the housework all the time, it was a workout.
With fewer mod cons to help it took all day and was very physical.
I know this wasn't probably the point of the article, but women in the 50's had much smaller waists.

Quiero · 27/08/2015 11:33

People burned more calories - women AND MEN because their life was more active due to a number of factors. This doesn't mean we should do more housework, it just means we should adjust our calorie intake accordingly and generally move more.

Even taking the housework out of the equation, people used to eat better with less refined sugar and processed food in their diets.

The story is, people used to eat better and move more than they do now.

Nothing to do with either women or housework.

BlackeyedSusan · 27/08/2015 11:56

people are fat as they are not active enough and eat too many calories. housework used to be more active. work used to be more active. people had less access to the higher calorie treats.

Patapouf · 27/08/2015 11:56

Sometimes I think the DM is playing 'make MNers froth'

Load of bloody bollocks. sidebar of shame is my guilty pleasure I take comfort in the fact that DM is written for knobs by knobs and try not let it get to me, that would be letting them win.

WorraLiberty · 27/08/2015 12:02

I used to like the DM, after reading this and a couple of others, I know why you all hate it.

I think 'Mumsnet' hating the Daily Mail is a bit of a myth tbh. It appears to be a very widely read newspaper on here.

In fact I'd go as far as to say it's the most linked to newspaper by far.

WorraLiberty · 27/08/2015 12:03

Patapouf you're helping to fund them so they're already 'winning'.

bikeandrun · 27/08/2015 12:13

I have banned myself from looking at the DM, I know its shit and articles like this are just clickbait which bring the DM profit. If Mumsnetters really hated the DM they wouldn't link to it .I bet a DM journalist is rubbing their hands with glee everytime someone on this site links to it.

Houseworkavoider · 27/08/2015 12:18

I know tons of overweight people with immaculate homes!
I'm slim and my home is tidy twice a day only!

wonkylegs · 27/08/2015 12:20

Ummm my next door neighbour is thin as they come but does absolutely no housework or chores) whatsoever (cleaner comes 4 times a week, gardener/handyman 3 times a week and there is only the 2 of them, big house tho) - I'm guessing having a personal trainer helps.
I'm sticking to daily gardening to keep me fit as its free and needs doing anyway.

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