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?

The op is talking about the roles in relationships. Agreed so many woman on here end up complaining about the lack of help in the house. It might be because they are the crap blokes ( who we need to come on here and complain about )and the vast majority are great at running a house ( but we don't need to comment on them).

My OH knows how to do most household chores due to his mother announcing that she had looked after his two older brothers and couldn't be bothered to do it for him. He was 11. She then walked out when he was 15 for another man leaving him as the main carer for his ill father.
I hate that woman

The absolutely cleanest, tidiest couple I know are my 2 gay friends. Their sock drawers are colour-coded from light to dark, I'm not kidding. Somehow they manage to survive without a woman.

It's quite amazing how men who can figure out computers, cars and lawn mowers simply can't grasp what cotton 40C means on a washing machine, poor darlings

My sister was the solitary dyke in a house share with three gay men. They used to complain that "I'm the only one who plumps the cushions around here" and then leave their ironing boards, hair products and discarded clothes lying about the place when they went clubbing

There are too many people on here who did not choose wisely when selecting a DH or DP. What on earth does having a penis have to do with an ability or otherwise to do household chores? You're just letting them get away with it by doing everything yourself.

Scholes34 spot on!

I love you notreallyarsed!

great minds and all that

My husband is generally good and certainly capable but occasionally annoyingly rubbish / selfish(only washing what he wants in the morning, what is that?)
I wonder if I should offer direct sexual favours if he's more consistent as nothing kills my sexy mood like having to do housework I feel someone else should be doing!!!

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

Mine can do all the too, and he's into boxing and sexual dominance (though not ex Army, much as I'd like that). If he met a man who couldn't do laundry, cook a simple meal or even figure out that people need feeding, he would ask him where he kept his cajones. In his world, men don't sit around next to simple everyday household appliances and whimper about their helplessness.

And too many people talking bollocks

I must have had a sense of humour failure tonight but I really don't like this the ability of a random human to do chores is not linked to gender or sexuality. Stupid stereotypes are both annoying and damaging.

Scholes34 way too many

I've had a punctuation failure too...should have been a full stop after 'I really don't like this'.

My gay friends (I refer to them as friends; their sexuality is no one else's business but theirs) have pristine houses.

They have cleaners and send laundry out.

Erm, that'll be exactly the point OP is making Armadilloestoes

Armadillo, surely OP's intent is to show how utterly idiotic and implausible men's claims that they can't do the laundry because of their sex are.

Wouldn't make sense any other way.

... perhaps this is one of the reasons why patriarchy doesn't like gay men. They expose the claim that men can't do the laundry.

It's in the gay genes. As is on the sex chromosomes. But you always need the two copies, as the Y cancels them out.

Seriously.

Do not dry wtf are you supposed to do with it if you have washed it?? Oh well this is why I don't read the wee symbols

DH does more than his fair share of laundry, washing up, cooking and so on. DS is also fully house trained because I see it as a responsibility to make sure he doesn't end up like one of these helpless men who depend on their wives for everything domestic - I can't think of anything less attractive.

Shoving clothes in a hole is literally the easiest part of doing the laundry, as I keep telling dh.

Luckily he does enough other things around the house to compensate for his lack of clothes washing skills, such as ironing which I hate. He's ex RAF which no doubt helps, although his mother is fearsome too.

My DP is a stay at home dad, I work FT and often travel overseas for work so he has our DC on his own for a week or so. He knows how the washing machine works better than I do, washes up better than me and does all chores a lot better than I do HOWEVER he still seems incapable of taking the empty loo roll off and replacing it with a new one 😡

I've literally never checked any of the care labels on my clothes in my life. Anything that isn't cashmere or silk gets chucked in the machine, put on the standard setting, and it comes out just fine.

Oh, and the gay men I know with lovely show homes have cleaners in multiple times a week.

I must have had a sense of humour failure tonight but I really don't like this the ability of a random human to do chores is not linked to gender or sexuality. Stupid stereotypes are both annoying and damaging

That was my point

Actually the only way you might interpret me is if you do indeed think gay men are capable of cleaning is due to their gayness and not due to the fact they've not got a woman to dupe in to doing the washing.