To wonder how gay men do it?

[Bunlicker]

Because from reading the relationships threads here it has become apparent to me that #allmen can't see dirt. Or do the washing up. Or the laundry, and that some are just not very good at doing the laundry.

And here's me not knowing you could be 'bad' at something that literally involves sticking clothes in a hole.

How do these men get dressed in the mornings, or does the inability to take clothing out of the washing machine not extend to taking clothes out of other places?

Surely gay men are also kept blind to the secret women's ways of washing clothes, as handed down from mother to daughter since the very first Egyptian laundry rooms?

In fact, were these symbols actually hieroglyphics?

So do gay men just sit around together looking forlornly at grubby unironed work shirts with collar stains.

Do they use paper plates since neither of them could possibly wash the dishes?

Are they just both hoping that one day they will stumble upon the magical place that the mop resides so they can stop sticking to floors?

Mine can do all of the above, laundry, cleaning, tidying, ironing, . But then he is ex army so maybe that's why? Either way I'm happy.

I never pay attention to those laundry symbols. They may as well be hieroglyphics.

They don't have an enabling woman partner who grumbles about how rubbish men are whilst doing all the jobs. Then moaning that she's done all the jobs.
Having a penis doesn't act like a cloak of invisibility for the dirty laundry or actually make a man incapable of using a Hoover.

Mine can do all of the above, laundry, cleaning, tidying, ironing, . But then he is ex army so maybe that's why? Either way I'm happy.

Mine can (and does) do all that too... and he's ex Army as well

I think you don't know many, if any, gay men.

Mine does too and is not ex army. I am a slattern and he has standards so pretty early on we learned how it had to work.

Every gay man I know has a show home!!

Fergus425 you could shave your legs with the creases DP puts in school trousers

You having a bad day?

TBH, I don't know what virtually all of those symbols mean either.

I had literally no clue what most of those symbols were. I do all the laundry. 40 degree cotton wash. Seems ok 😂

Never looked at a chart like that myself. What on earth does "do not dry" mean?

All man CAN do this if they chose to. If they HAVE to. My DH can do it shit at ironing though but until he moved in with me didn't have to. His mum did everything. Never expected him to do a thing and did it for him. My mum had me doing the chores from a small child. By 14 I was cooking/cleaning and ironing for a whole family.
DH moved in with me and we shared chores. In fact, when he does a proper clean he does a better job than me. I currently do majority of chores as I am off on MAT leave and when returning will only do 2 days a week. I am happy with this as DH still does a share of the work including bath/bedtime.

Great mental image of two men looking at the laundry wondering when it will magically sort itself out!

My husband can and does all domestic tasks, often more regularly and more thoroughly than I do.

Mine can (and does) do housework, I often say he's a better wife than me. I don't get these women who have lazy 'incapable' husbands who do nothing, mine wouldn't be living here if he was like that.

Or indeed any man who lives in a home without women present? We're still expected to chortle along with the idea that men and women are just so TOTALLY different, and women have talents for cooking, scrubbing and laundry, while men have different talents, like putting up shelves and washing cars. It's such tired old bullshit

It all makes sense now, I must be a man! I suck at laundry and cleaning, nobody ever taught me anything, I just make it up as I go along.

Mine can (and does) do housework, I often say he's a better wife than me. I don't get these women who have lazy 'incapable' husbands who do nothing, mine wouldn't be living here if he was like that

The men seem to have convinced their wives that not only is it not their fault they're useless but it's actually the fault of another woman (mil) they're useless. First planting the seed of so many mil threads on Mn?

Both DH and stepson are capable of doing everything on a domestic front. Neither of them ex military.

Bosch speed perfect mixed load 40 degrees for everything in my house

eyes too shite to read tiny labels

My ex husband could do all, he just wouldn't. He saw it as women's work. But he also had a mother who was a total martyr to her husband and her sons and would have wiped their arses had they asked, even as adults.

My lovely DP shares all the household stuff. We both work full time so why shouldn't he. He came from a family where his mum worked and he had sisters so he was brought up to treat women as equals.

They're taken aside at school and taught this along along with dress sense and how to dance to Kylie.

They just put up another shelf for the dirty laundry. Shelves and shelves of it. Or they bin them and wait for Mr May to pop round and put the wheelie bins out.

That must be it restless!

My husband and all my sons know how to use the washing machine and dishwasher. I wouldn't think they'd know what the signs meant but then neither do I.

My mum didn't teach me to do anything, so when I left home I could barely cook or use the washing machine. My kids aren't going to be like that!

...what?

I can understand being frustrated at people who can't/won't do housework but what on earth have gay men got to do with it?

(Posted from my sofa while my DP is currently busy cleaning the bathroom )