Men making dinner

[mudsticks]

I make the breakfasts, I'm a dab hand at porridge and toast, and lunchtime sandwiches. I also wash all the dishes.

My wife, however, cooks 95% of the evening meals. This is entirely her choice as she is a brilliant cook who actually likes it. She's one of the old school who did 'O' level cookery, before it became home economics, and can make a good meal out of scraps, and every time I do get to cook a main meal she is on my shoulder, supervising. I am allowed to chop the vegetables.

It works for us. A few years back she was in hospital for a year and I must admit my cooking was not wonderful. I lived for that year on salads, omelettes, and stews, because I could cook a large one and make it last three days. I also did all the cooking for a couple of months until she got back on her feet and then she insisted on taking over again.

There is nothing wrong with division of labour in a house, as long as all parties want it and no-one is being put upon, and equality is not a statistical exercise in doing every single thing equally.

Well yes, the whole thing in the op is incredibly clumsily done, a bit dated, and very patronising.

I genuinely thought it was a spoof.

Of course the basic premise is that everyone should be pulling their weight, and that both parties should be doing their fair share.

Who does what, is down to an individual couple, their circumstances, and their various talents and preferences.

If this is a genuinely contemporary campaign, then I guess somebody 'cooked' it up because they thought there was a need.

Next time they should just send any recalcitrant chaps, over to us at Cycle Chat for their re education.

We're clearly wayyy ahead of the field on all this.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Well yes, the whole thing in the op is incredibly clumsily done, a bit dated, and very patronising.

I genuinely thought it was a spoof.

Of course the basic premise is that everyone should be pulling their weight, and that both parties should be doing their fair share.

Who does what, is down to an individual couple, their circumstances, and their various talents and preferences.

If this is a genuinely contemporary campaign, then I guess somebody 'cooked' it up because they thought there was a need.

Next time they should just send any recalcitrant chaps, over to us at Cycle Chat for their re education.

We're clearly wayyy ahead of the field on all this.

 

[Cycleops]

I'm more of a hunter gatherer, so i forage for takeaways and beer in the evening.
The lovely wife is always pleased to have a rest from the ironing to tuck into a vindaloo and can of stella.

Keep at it, I'm sure you'll get your Michelin star eventually.

 

[mudsticks]

Keep at it, I'm sure you'll get your Michelin star eventually.

Either that,

or finish up looking like the Michelin Man..

 

[Rusty Nails]

Either that,

or finish up looking like the Michelin Man..

And I thought his avatar was Geoff Capes.........................perhaps it isn't.

 

[mudsticks]

And I thought his avatar was Geoff Capes.........................perhaps it isn't.

It can't be Geoff Capes.

There's no budgie in the picture

 

[I like Skol]

n, and equality is not a statistical exercise in doing every single thing equally.

Amen!

 

[Levo-Lon]

Why not blame the daddies for the poor role modelling, tho?

Maybe they were the ones

'not stepping up to the plate'??

To coin a phrase

Down the pub

 

[mudsticks]

Down the pub

Better not tonight.

I've got a class to teach

 

[Rusty Nails]

It can't be Geoff Capes.

There's no budgie in the picture

How can you tell, he's not wearing Speedos?

 

[I like Skol]

Who does what, is down to an individual couple, their circumstances, and their various talents and preferences.

Absolutely. I know my place, and it is putting the bins out on a Thursday night....

I am also the chief dishwasher stacker, Mrs Skol just doesn't do it right!

 

[DRM]

I do all the cooking, cleaning, washing and ironing, have done for the last couple of years, my Good Lady isn't in the best of health.

Same as me, SWMBO hasn’t been in the best of health for over 20 years

 

[slowmotion]

I cooked bacon and eggs. Am I allowed to burnish my halo on this thread?

 

[steveindenmark]

.Men making dinner day must be the mosts sexist day in the calendar.

 

[nickyboy]

This morning I'm making Dakdoritang in the slow cooker. A spicy Korean chicken stew. Mrs N is going out for breakfast with her Mum

Wish me luck....