To think most men wouldn’t survive a year living the life of an average woman?

[ThatRealLimeBee]

The daily grind of sexism, safety worries, juggling expectations, emotional labour… Most men have no idea. AIBU to think they’d crumble under the load if they had to swap lives with us for a year?

Doomed to fail, you tell that to my bank balance 😂😂

Or maybe I should just take pride in the everyday stuff I do without being so needy and desperate for external validation that I feel compelled to invent a bogus "professional" tag for it.

I am actually a professional, with industry qualifications and everything. It's how I earn my living. That's what the word means.

I see you’ve avoided actually responding to the point again and instead have decided to play the victim completely oblivious to the disgusting comments you’ve made towards working mothers on this and other threads.

You are receiving horrible comments because you are being horrible.
The vast majority of people don’t care that you’re a SAHM. They respect your choice and don’t think twice about it.
But your bizarre need for the world to acknowledge you as ‘the greatest mum that ever lived’ is what is causing people to comment, it’s your superior attitude not your choice to be a SAHM.

If you had just commented that you have chosen to be a SAHM but you fully respect the choices other women have made, nobody would have commented. It’s the fact you call working mothers bad parents (both directly and indirectly) and spend so much time trying to prove how you’re better than us all.
Your comments about removing subsidised childcare and the use of childcare are also pretty inflammatory so are of course going to illicit a reaction.

Anyway, I suspect that your either a troll or you enjoy the drama cos nobody who is this dedicated to their family spends days glued to their phone arguing with strangers.

Only the incels.
Decent men are proud of their high earning wives.

People are saying men do their share of housework/ looking after kids etc which is great. However that doesn't mean men experience sexism on a regular basis or are scared to go out incase they get attacked or deal with the shit our bodies go through due to periods, pregnancy, childbirth and then menopause.
Men might step up but I think they'd struggle being a woman

Not just a barista, but a professional barista. Don't sell him short.

I had to apply a plaster to my DD at the weekend and I regularly handle medications. You can now refer to me as Dr Howard Moon.

My mum was wonderful. But she was financially abused by her partner who ended up killing her so forgive me if I’ll NEVER be financially dependent on any man and want to earn enough money to give myself options should I need them.

Ha nor do committed professionals- perhaps that explains the ‘gender pay gap’- I doubt the highest paid and most senior men waste hours on here 😂

Here’s a thought- quit Mumsnet instead of blaming housewives for ‘letting the side down’ 😜

Housewife/husband/homemaker has always been a category on official applications and paperwork, and entails many tasks, not just one…grow up!

Thought you were heading to the Christmas boards?

I’m on annual leave HTH

I’ve not blamed housewives for anything 🤷🏼‍♀️
and you’ve still not addressed how the economy and certain sectors would cope if women suddenly left the labour market?

We’re different. Most people wouldn’t cope if the roles were swapped, because we’re different. But my husband would be fine, he’d do things differently to me, Christmas would be bigger, birthdays would be bigger, the house would be tidier 😂. He wouldn’t pack the nursery bag in the same way, he wouldn’t over analyse the finances, he wouldn’t stress about meal plans.

Like someone else said, we bring it on ourselves. I’m going to spend the day deep cleaning and doing life admin, why? Because it helps clear my mind. It doesn’t actually need doing.

But that doesn’t mean it’s considered a profession.
It’s a way of categorising those who are economically inactive. It allows the government to understand why someone of working age is unemployed. It’s for statistical purposes and for planning with regards tackling those who are truly NEET or unemployed.

Unemployed is similarly included. Does that mean that unemployed people are professionals?

I an extremely sorry for your loss 💐

Most jobs aren't dependent on validation from your spouse though. A housewife living a life of luxury funded by her husband's big job is essentially just an overpaid maid.

...is the suggestion that a year living the role of a woman would kill a man? What utter nonsense.

I think some men would probs die of boredom.

Ffs, try being a man living with a woman. The mood swings are the real killer. I don't think any woman could live being a man (living with a woman), it's really hard, but we suck it up and never ever learn the right time to say the right things.

Thank you

I don’t have mood swings. I’m extremely mentally resilient and I’m good natured and easy going and take any setbacks on the chin. My male DP has regular sulks and the day is sometimes ruined if things don’t go his way. If something goes wrong, my instinct is to think “okay how can we fix it and make the best of it”. His is to go off in a huff. He also accuses me of being too negative sometimes because I will plan for what happens if things don’t work out. This apparently stresses him out. Whereas he will be convinced everything will be great and then when it’s not, almighty sulk and then we do what I had planned for all along. So I must say I completely disagree with your description of male and female moods.

I agree. My ex husband had the emotional capacity of a teaspoon.

He once lost his temper and shouted at the oven because he hadn’t switched it on.

His football team lost? Misery, all weekend.

Bit of a cold? Help me I’m dying.

It rained when we were at a festival. He’d refused to take wellies and was then very angry at.. weather. I was quite happy in my Hunters sploshing about because I’d actually considered that rain exists.

Women do tend to be more resilient and better able to cope with what are really just normal challenges.

.....bit of a Mumsnet first, this post. Manages to be both pointless and goady.

Well done. Here's a pound...

It probably says more about you tbh.

It was meant to be light hearted.