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To hate women who make a big martyry song and dance about the housework

113 replies

Fragmentedbrain · 05/05/2025 11:44

Just read an article in the daily mail on this theme

One quoted woman says she'd rather live on a commune of women than with a man because there would be more sharing of "the domestic load"

Personally I would rather die than live with Neat Women in some dedicated to cleaning hellscape

If you want things to be tidy, tidy

Otherwise dont and shaddup about it

(I know this is possible because neither my husband nor I gaf about tidying and we have fun instead)

OP posts:
Springhassprungxx · 05/05/2025 14:28

Aren't you amazing op?
Can l assume you don't have children?
Anyways you do you.

MotherofPearl · 05/05/2025 14:43

KimberleyClark · 05/05/2025 14:18

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. —Rose Macaulay

My favourite quote.

I don’t think housekeeping and ‘living life’ are mutually exclusive. The former is an inevitable part of the latter.

JewelInTheTiara · 05/05/2025 15:01

KimberleyClark · 05/05/2025 14:18

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. —Rose Macaulay

My favourite quote.

I like this quote but seeing as I do a lot of living in my house, I like it to be clean and relaxing.

The13thFairy · 05/05/2025 15:02

Walk into the bathroom you cleaned. Your bloke has left his beard trimmings and toothpaste spit in the basin. Look at the toilet. He's left piss on the floor, pubes on the seat and skidmarks in the bowl. Sigh. Sigh again, and take on board that he feels far too important to clean up after himself - it's your job. He actually sees it as your job to remove his shit from the bowl - and to wash the shit out of his underpants because he cba to keep his backside clean. Then - deep breath - try to feel sexual attraction to him . . . No wonder women instigate the majority of divorces.

FloatingSquirrel · 05/05/2025 15:04

What state is your house in if neither if you do housework?

AnotherNC321 · 05/05/2025 15:08

My daughter is 18m and since her birth I have become a stay at home parent.

I’m the skinniest I’ve ever been. As in 5’7 and under 120lb. I also make sure I eat full fat everything now too just to make sure I don’t get any smaller.

Everyone keeps mentioning my weight loss. I’m at least 20lb smaller than pre pregnancy weight.

Before I used to work out a couple of times a week but the only exercise I do these days is looking after DD and keeping the house ticking over. Bloody exhausting.

IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 05/05/2025 15:11

AnotherNC321 · 05/05/2025 15:08

My daughter is 18m and since her birth I have become a stay at home parent.

I’m the skinniest I’ve ever been. As in 5’7 and under 120lb. I also make sure I eat full fat everything now too just to make sure I don’t get any smaller.

Everyone keeps mentioning my weight loss. I’m at least 20lb smaller than pre pregnancy weight.

Before I used to work out a couple of times a week but the only exercise I do these days is looking after DD and keeping the house ticking over. Bloody exhausting.

That's nice.

MonsteraDelicious · 05/05/2025 15:14

Even if you dgaf about housework you must actually do housework unless your house looks like an episode of hoarders or grime fighters. And as you and/or DH must actually do some housework surely you can understand that if neither of you give a fuck about it but one of you ends up lumbered with it that would be pretty annoying.

If I had to do all of the housework for my household I would be making an Andrew Lloyd Weber level song and dance of it.

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 05/05/2025 15:15

Personally I would rather die than live with Neat Women in some dedicated to cleaning hellscape

That's not what she's describing though is it?
She's acknowledging that women still take on the bulk of responsibility for housework.

MonsteraDelicious · 05/05/2025 15:18

KimberleyClark · 05/05/2025 14:18

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. —Rose Macaulay

My favourite quote.

It's hard to live life to the full when your house is a fetid shithole.

There's always constant housework needing doing even to keep it sanitary, never mind beautiful.

There's no escape! Someone always has to do it.

MonsteraDelicious · 05/05/2025 15:26

Living the dream fantasy of no housework =

Bin overflows everywhere all over the floor
Toilet is crusted with shite
No clean clothes and stink waves rising from piles of dirty laundry
No clean dishes and mould and vermin move in
Beds are now fetid fart boxes
Dusty cover on everything and dust bunny chandeliers
Climbing through piles of detritus never tidied up

Unless your house is like that, you are doing housework. And if you're doing housework and no one is helping, you're a hero saving everyone from grimefightersville and can sing and dance as much as you like

LovelySG · 05/05/2025 15:28

’I’m not like other girls’ 🙄

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 05/05/2025 15:34

Ratisshortforratthew · 05/05/2025 13:03

Sensible people, when it becomes apparent their male partner is a slovenly pig, don’t then go on to marry and have kids with them. I was once dating someone and it had only been about 4 months so obviously we were nowhere near living together. When he came round, though, he’d leave half-drunk coffee mugs all over my flat, wouldn’t put his plates in the sink, and when he walked muddy boots over my rug that was the last straw. I dumped him. Yes, men need to do better but women also have a choice whether to date/cohabit with/marry useless slobs. If you see the signs and shack up with them anyway, more fool you.

You realise they don't all start out like this. Once they've got themselves a wife - usually when she's on Mat Leave - they backpedal on all the life skills they've ever learned. And it goes on from there. If they were useless to start with do you REALLY think we still would have married them?

Sunbline · 05/05/2025 15:40

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 05/05/2025 15:34

You realise they don't all start out like this. Once they've got themselves a wife - usually when she's on Mat Leave - they backpedal on all the life skills they've ever learned. And it goes on from there. If they were useless to start with do you REALLY think we still would have married them?

Plenty of women still would let's be real! Or they know and have more children with them

Abitlosttoday · 05/05/2025 15:43

Stop hating women. Stop reading the Daily Mail.

MereNoelle · 05/05/2025 15:44

Do you have kids OP? Do they like living in filth? Happy to invite friends over?

Pinkissmart · 05/05/2025 15:45

You're so cool, op

NeedyNavyTiger · 05/05/2025 15:51

Ddakji · 05/05/2025 11:46

You don’t sound very bright.

You don’t sound very nice

Newmeagain · 05/05/2025 15:57

KimberleyClark · 05/05/2025 14:18

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. —Rose Macaulay

My favourite quote.

Hmm - not when kids are involved. So often you hear from people whose lasting memory of childhood is of a grubby, untidy house. It’s a myth that children don’t care about mess and dirt.

aspidernamedfluffy · 05/05/2025 16:02

The13thFairy · 05/05/2025 15:02

Walk into the bathroom you cleaned. Your bloke has left his beard trimmings and toothpaste spit in the basin. Look at the toilet. He's left piss on the floor, pubes on the seat and skidmarks in the bowl. Sigh. Sigh again, and take on board that he feels far too important to clean up after himself - it's your job. He actually sees it as your job to remove his shit from the bowl - and to wash the shit out of his underpants because he cba to keep his backside clean. Then - deep breath - try to feel sexual attraction to him . . . No wonder women instigate the majority of divorces.

Well if my DP had done any of that he'd be told in no uncertain terms to clean it up...Hell, I'd throw the cleaning kit at him every fucking time until he got the message. No wonder so many men behave like slobs when the women in their life let them get away with it.

IAmTheLogLady · 05/05/2025 16:04

PartyPotato · 05/05/2025 13:18

I am laughing at some of these replies because OP hasn’t articulated herself very well, but I think a lot of people have misunderstood what OP is (clumsily) trying to say. She’s not saying, don’t bother cleaning your because it’s not important. Shes saying don’t absolutely exhaust and depress yourself by doing everything for everyone else and then complain about it. Ask for help, or stop doing it. They’ll learn (‘they’ refers to lazy husbands/partners and kids).

I think op is a goady fucker on a wind up.
They probably think HQ have clocked off and gone to the pub so they'll get away with it

AnneLovesGilbert · 05/05/2025 16:09

I hope there aren’t children or animals living in this house where no one gives a fuck about keeping it clean or tidy.

frozendaisy · 05/05/2025 16:12

Everyone needs clean underwear, food prepared in a hygienic space and consumable items (e.g. toothpaste say) to just function as a basic human.

It’s when dumb grunts expect and don’t acknowledge the huge amount of “unpaid” work that goes into running a household.

Even you must clean your teeth, wipe your arse and boil a kettle from time to time OP.

And growing numbers of women are sick of it, because they work full time out of the house as well now.

And many more grunts sit there blaming everything except themselves why they can’t get a female to do their domestic work free, in fact be grateful to look after them, and then suck their cocks in appreciation.

Can you honestly not understand that OP?
Yes live in filth together if you choose.

blindblinds · 05/05/2025 16:18

Judging by some of the replies the OP has a point 😆

frozendaisy · 05/05/2025 16:18

Well if even the Daily Mail women are complaining about it, it’s hit the Stepford Wives massive!
Or at least their daughters!