"Doesn't she look after you?"

[BasilBabyEater]

This was said by an able-bodied adult male colleague to another able-bodied adult male colleague on the latter's biting into what the former felt was an unsatisfactory item of lunch.

"She" presumably, was the latter's wife.

The expectation being that a fully grown man with a wife who is on maternity leave looking after a toddler and a baby, should be concerning herself with the contents of her husband's lunchbox (lunchbox as in food for work, not as in Linford Christie's etc.)

I ignored the wave of contempt that overcame me and carried on with the report I was working on.

Ha ha so many generalisations! I, as a man, do all the cooking, shopping and my own washing and ironing. As my wife is away, and we generally split the cleaning 50-50, I have just carried on and done it all as I normally do when she is away and she will do when I'm away. I don't think 'man bashing' helps the imbalance between the sexes helps, although I can understand the frustration of female Ops on this thread.

Why shouldn't I man bash a man child?