Sexist washing instructions

[Doubting Thomas]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/tw...-belt.html

[Tiberius]

I love the first line of that article (written by a woman btw):

"This weekend, as I attempted to tidy to my house"

[Doubting Thomas]

Nothing wrong with that. I help my wife tidy our house all the time. But I don't consider it "her" job to clean the house or do laundry.

[Tiberius]

I just found it mildly amusing that she's riled up about sexism and stereotypes, and opens up with what is often used as a sexist stereotype.

[Minimalist]

I'm a pretty decent cook but my wife won't let me near the washing machine.

She knows better.

[Autumnlicious]

I just found it mildly amusing that she's riled up about sexism and stereotypes, and opens up with what is often used as a sexist stereotype.

I find it exceptionally irksome that you trivialize the author be implying she is unhinged using the terms 'riled up' and belittle her opening as a stereotype.

Doubly so, given that her entire premise is about differentiating between humor and simple bigotry.

No wonder so many feminists go Feminazi -- being sidelined even in casual conversation on an ATHEIST site has got to be frustrating to the extreme. One cannot even start a story without having idiots postulate as to one strengthening stereotypes.

Funny enough, last I checked, couples tidy stuff for each other.

The fact that a woman needs to avoid even doing activities that can be remotely considered sexist (even if it is mundane and done by both genders) and be criticized by you makes me question your sensibilities more than hers.

[Tiberius]

It was a joke Synackaon.

[Autumnlicious]

So was my post.

Jokes everywhere.

[Tiberius]

Not so sure it was. I found it amusing, you don't. No reason to make a fuss about it; I wasn't saying she needed to avoid doing the tidying up, I was just (mildly) amused by her wording.

[Autumnlicious]

Not so sure it was. I found it amusing, you don't.

I was under the impression that a joke that evinces no laughter is still a joke, albeit an unsuccessful one.

No reason to make a fuss about it; I wasn't saying she needed to avoid doing the tidying up, I was just (mildly) amused by her wording.

Indeed. However, her detractors have a habit (and she even addressed that directly) of belittling her views as "over sensitive" and the like in order to better strengthen their "it's a joke" position.

Your statement took on a similar guise, along with your own choice of words (diction) that implied she is 'riled up' when she is really writing about the separation between good humor and not.

You wouldn't accuse Morgan Freeman of being 'riled up' for raising the issue of constraining black history to a single month, even if he began (hypothetically) his objection with "I was playing my saxophone one day and..." That statement would contain quite a few stereotypes. But I'm not certain I'd see:
"I just found it mildly amusing that he's riled up about racism and stereotypes, and opens up with what is often used as a racist stereotype."
while:
"I just found it mildly amusing that she's riled up about sexism and stereotypes, and opens up with what is often used as a sexist stereotype." appears a short distance above.

So expect me to notice inconsistencies in a similar context.

Furthermore, it can be argued that cleaning up a room, like playing a saxophone, is such a mundane and common activity that I can compare the actions in a similar framework (i.e. sentence).