Husband furious I took the bins out - WWYD?

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Bit of a daft one maybe but genuinely curious what others think.

DH has been in a strop since last night because I took the bins out. He was sat on the sofa watching the cricket, bins were literally spilling over, so I just grabbed them on the way out to the shop. Didn’t even think about it.

Anyway he’s now saying I “emasculated” him and “disrespected his role as a husband” (his words, not mine 🙄). Apparently bin duty is his thing and I’ve overstepped??

Told me I made him look useless and he’s now being all cold and sulky. I laughed at first but now he’s gone all moody and dramatic like I’ve committed some massive betrayal.

Is this normal?? I thought this kinda gendered nonsense was dead and buried but he’s proper taking it personally. Anyone else’s OH like this or is mine just being a numpty?

WWYD? Ignore and let him sulk or sit him down and tell him he’s being ridiculous?

😂 I thought the same!
What a knob

Its certainly not normal to be married to a man and all of a sudden discover he's a great believer in 'gendered nonsense' without having had an inkling before a random bin day, no. Surely you didn't get all the way to choosing this man as a life partner without knowing his views? Surely this isn't the first time in your marriage you've ever attempted what he would consider a 'man's job'? Never done the bins before? Unblocked a sink? Done any car maintenance? Unless you're newly weds who had spent little time in each others company and its your first bin day together, I think its bizarre this has come up for the first time now. Has he started to follow Andrew Tate and the like?

This! My H takes the bins to the road and does the recycling. This means he "does his share"!!

I take the bins out and dh does. Surely it's a job no one likes, why isn't he happy you did it! I'd be wondering if something else was wrong as he's using this to be annoyed with you.

There are loads of men who still think like this though. I bought a TV once as we needed a new one and I spotted a great offer and pounced. Dh worked with men who were genuinely shocked that he would let his wife buy a TV.

Seeing as he's acting like a massive child you can send him the bin night song next time the bins are due 😂

How do some people cope with life dear me! Just bin him !

My DH does put the bins out every week and does the recycling and green bin too but I'm sure he'd be pleased if I did it for him.

He's emasculated himself by behaving like a sulky little boy.

I do the bins every week. DH does most of the cooking. Have we desexed each other?🤣

This is completely nuts and if you dh is serious he needs help.

Bins is definitely my dh's job, on the odd occasion I do it I get 'oh cheers for doing the bins' .... but I did marry an actual grown up adult man who doesn't need the bins to feel like a man!

Your husband is bonkers. What a strange and funny little man.

Mine thinks I don’t pack the recycling/cardboard bin correctly…however if the house is full of cardboard waiting to go out I will shove it in the outside bin. It’s a win if he gets the rage, as he should do it himself if he wants it artfully stacked to maximum capacity 😬

If that’s all he does around the house Hes emasculating himself.

My DH is the owner of the bins.. he knows the schedule the times the lorry comes , which bin is which.. he’s got so good at it not one member of the family has a clue about anything bin related and then he moans that we “don’t help him” well we don’t help as you are like the bin police.. he rummages through recycling checking we haven’t put the wrong things in.

We all laugh at him, I’m not sure he’d sulk, more likely faint with shock if I got involvedz

You DH is a twat and I’d have to laugh at him.

Op hasn't returned in over 2 hours, wonder if she's now mowing the lawn, just to finish him
off??

Sometimes you only need to read the headline to think "What a total Tit." This is one of those occasions 🙄

No, you just have bin assigned wrongly. I couldn't help me sorry.

He needs to be quicker if he wants to keep his bin crown 🤷‍♀️

He's worried about looking less of a man while sulking like a toddler?

My DH would be thrilled if I took out the bins! But then he's not a man-baby with a fragile ego 🙄 your DH sounds like a twat!

This can't be real 😂

He’s evidently pissed because the neighbours would have seen you doing it rather than him……..” Me Tarzan! Me big bin shifter! Me do mans work! “ Now let’s rephrase that……..Me the idle twat who walks past the bins and ignores the fact that they are overflowing and sits on my arse watching the tv!!!!!

Tell him to get over himself, silly boy!

For goodness sake it’s 2025 not 1825!

9 times out of 10 it’s me who puts the bins out. DH does the ironing. Guess we emansculate each other then 🤣

OMG I wish this happened in my household, I have to beg DH to take the bins out 😂He is totally overreacting, has something else bothered him to warrant this overreaction and it's hiding another issue he's not brought up?

He's made himself useless by having one job.