AIBU to suspect the number one guideline in the Secret Society of Husbands is...

[anxietyaunt]

... that disappearing to the toilet for an extended period effectively gets you out of doing things around the house without the missus suspecting a thing?

Can I just be the first bloke on this thread to point out that most of you would be moaning about blatant sexism if the OP had been a man posting a question about "why women blah blah sterotypically bullshit sexist question"? Looks like you can be! COngratulations

E.G. "Why is it most women wait till they have packed their shopping at the supermarket checkout before thinking to look for their credit card instead of getting out while standing in the queue for 10 minutes like most men do? I mean it's hardly a surprise that they are going to have to pay for the stuff." You've misread the room there, hun!

Discuss. Nope!

@MairzyDoates

Misandry.

Yep! And your point is...

Women taking the piss out of men isn't really the same as the fine art of misogyny or patriarchy is it?

Then again, women having a sene of humour; men as the butt of a joke... I can see whwre you are coming from.

SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU NASTY MISANDRISTS!

Can I just be the first bloke on this thread to point out that most of you would be moaning about blatant sexism if the OP had been a man posting a question about "why women blah blah sterotypically bullshit sexist question"? E.G. "Why is it most women wait till they have packed their shopping at the supermarket checkout before thinking to look for their credit card instead of getting out while standing in the queue for 10 minutes like most men do? I mean it's hardly a surprise that they are going to have to pay for the stuff."

Depends. Are you posting this from the loo?

Can I just be the first bloke on this thread to point out that most of you would be moaning about blatant sexism if the OP had been a man posting a question about "why women blah blah sterotypically bullshit sexist question"?

Did you get lost on your way to the Men & Motors forum?

Depends. Are you posting this from the loo

Definitely

Obviously trying to get a really long discussion going to kill as much time as possible....

Is it a biological thing?! My sons (age 6 and 3) have always spent a really long time in the toilet too, I don't remember doing this as a kid. When I need a poo I just sit on the toilet and it plops out, I'm done within a minute, I don't understand why it takes 10+ minutes?! Surely if you need to poo, it comes out straight away, and if you have to wait 10-15 mins or more, it's probably not time yet...!? Sorry for TMI but I just don't get it, this drives me mad!

Not husband here, but years ago my sons were demons for disappearing to the main bathroom directly above the kitchen, when we had a dongle for wifi.

Once we cottoned on to this, husband and I would just move it to another spot, and not say a word. Two minutes later they would smooch in trying to discreetly to locate it.

Neither parties ever said a world but it used to give us a good laugh behind their backs.🤣

I came on to post, only to find it in the OP already. The Great Sit In seems to start young in boys, and by the teen years life is lost to it. I think it is biological because, asking around, even those without a negative male role model at home seem to do it. Unless it's a secret whispered between boys in the playground.

Depends. Are you posting this from the loo?

😂😂😂

And I am talking about 40 minutes to an hour, sometimes more

@TheSandman, re purses/credit card, women generally don't do anything that will compromise their safety. This is often something that men don't get, because they aren't as vulnerable to some happens as women are. You don't get out of the habit of being careful with your purse etc even in enclosed spaces.

DP likes to wait until I’ve got myself, clothes avoiding DD (2) and the paraphernalia that accompanies her ready before he heads to the loo. I’ve started telling him to go ahead of time like he’s a small child now. He hates this and doesn’t take half as long!

Oh @Ponoka7 !!!! I wanted him to work that out for himself!!!

DH had to be told in no uncertain terms why I do some things differently from him. He gets it now, but I used to annoy him by not being 'prepared' for the obvious.

Sandman

E.G. "Why is it most women wait till they have packed their shopping at the supermarket checkout before thinking to look for their credit card instead of getting out while standing in the queue for 10 minutes like most men do?

Not in my local supermarket, just as many men seem to do this as women. My lovely late dad was one of the worst for doing this - bless him, wish he was here now for me to have a moan at him.

[quote Ponoka7]@TheSandman, re purses/credit card, women generally don't do anything that will compromise their safety. This is often something that men don't get, because they aren't as vulnerable to some happens as women are. You don't get out of the habit of being careful with your purse etc even in enclosed spaces.[/quote]
Mmm. That's a fair point which I hadn't considered.

Women, on the receiving end of millenia of oppression, violence, and hate from men: "isn't it funny when men do the toilet thing?"

Man, beneficiary of male privilege for time untold: "ermagawd, you hurt my feelings, you MAN HATERS!"

Time for us girls to hush, a man hath spoken words of manliness.

DS is 12, he’s already got this figured out

It's one of those pesky Rules again, isn;t it?

Women are scared men will kill them; Men are scared women will laugh at them!

Even @TheSandman, who has been a reasonable voice on some threads, was sufficiently niggled about women poking fun at men he made a defensive comment without full reasoning.

@CuriousaboutSamphire

It's one of those pesky Rules again, isn;t it?

Women are scared men will kill them; Men are scared women will laugh at them!

Even @TheSandman, who has been a reasonable voice on some threads, was sufficiently niggled about women poking fun at men he made a defensive comment without full reasoning.

Thanks for thinking I can be a reasonable voice - I'm just a middle-aged, liberally-minded man genuinely confused by the world and trying to make sense of it - but saying "Men are scared women will laugh at them" (which is true to the extent that no one likes to be laughed at) is equivalent to saying "Women can't take a joke." which is what 'lads' say when some derogatory remark about blondes is objected to.

I'm not looking for a fight here I just don't see how making broad generalisations like, "Men avoid doing house work by taking extended dump breaks" adds anything to anything other than to re-enforce gender stereotypes.

saying "Men are scared women will laugh at them" (which is true to the extent that no one likes to be laughed at) is equivalent to saying "Women can't take a joke."

Its not. The quote is based on the fears of men vs the fears of women. When surveyed, the worst thing men could think of happening during an interaction with a woman was that she would laugh at him/ridicule him/reject him. The worst thing a woman could think of during an interaction with a man was that he might rape or kill her. That's the difference between male experiences and female experiences, it rarely - if ever - crosses a man's mind that the woman they are meeting for a drink might end the night by raping and/or murdering them.

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You have to read both parts together... I suspect the Rules are incomprehensible to men anyway. Every time I have mentioned one to a man I have had a response like yours!

And you now do seem to be saying that women cannot have a sense of humor if it centres men... Which was the point I was making and is the point of the thread.

If I were you I'd rethink the comparison to blonde jokes too. They were said loudly, in public, often to the blonde being ridiculed.

Threads like this happen when a woman wants to laugh about something WITHOUT hurting a specific man's feelings.

Why the difference, do you think?

And thanks Foxy for the supplying the context.

I'm sure I don't know what you mean...