I happened to be at a dairy shed today, hooking up the mains supply and the radio was on an easy listening station, during the breakfast show.
Now, this station is made for women, all of the advertising is directed towards women, 90%+ of the music is female.
Now to what I'm on about, during the breakfast show, the crew there, (2 Women and 1 "Man"), invited listeners to call up and "dob in" their partners that lack domestic skills, like cleaning and general house-work.

Some of the callers were just down-right nasty and lambasted their partners for the stupidest things, a brief list follows, (from memory) :

• One woman rang up and said that her man can't seem to get the idea of using a mop to clean the kitchen floor right, and "I often have to do it myself again later, just to make the floor look clean, again"
• Another woman rang up stating that her husband hangs the clothes on the clothes line, get this "the wrong way", " I come home from work at 2pm, and the clothes are all bent out of shape and I have to make sure there are no creases in them as they sit on the line"
• Cleaning the bath after you've used it was enough to make another caller ring in, stating that using abrasive cleaners on a bath was bad for it and he should have at least asked her what to use before "going his own merry way and damaging my bath".
• Are you a man that can cook?, well, you'd better get to this chick's house, she stated that she can't actually cook at the start of her call, but her partner does so "because he enjoys it", but meal times are far too late, once her partner comes home from his job as a plumber at 7:30pm and has to start from scratch to cook them a meal, she was asked what time she finished work, the reply was "I finish work at the volunteer centre at 1:30pm, but I have so many other things to do".

• The last caller had a real bee in her bonnet about her husband doing the dishes by hand, especially when they own a dish-washer, she stated "I've told him time and again to use the dishwasher, but he says they are un-hygenic and power hungry for small amounts of dishes, she then stated that there was "no way that her hands would be finding their way into a sink full of dishes, that is what modern appliances are designed for" and get this parting statement "the modern woman does NOT wash dishes, we are making things happen out in the real world"

So,
Us men can't really win can we?
If you do nothing around the house you are criticised, if you try, you are criticised.
I might add to the original post, that most of these callers were met with agreement and guffaws from the crew, including the one "man" there.

But fear not, folks, I've got my complaint in with the Broadcasting Standards Authority here, this sort of rubbish should not be on the airwaves!
If a radio station was tearing women to pieces about car maintenance or such things you could put money on the fact that there would be a huge outcry.

Thankfully, I don't regularly listen to that station, the music is tripe as well!

I wish I had of heard this. I may have phoned in. But I was too busy listening to women trying to prove that girl's night out is harmless on another station.

One of the guys was calling the women liars. I so wanted to tell them what really goes on. Love to stir the pot. hehehe

He will get sacked and sit back and watch TV or something else. Smart man.

He does this deliberately. He too will get sacked and watch TV or something else. Smart man.

Another deliberate move. Smart man.

She will finally start cooking.

My husband was fussy. She shouldn't care. She then gets to watch TV or something else. hehehe

Can you say petty?

It reminds me of a woman I once worked with who was complaining because her husband at the time didn't like to use a towel to dry the shower after he used it. I never heard of anyone taking the time to dry a tub after use.
She said she did.

She dropped him and married # 5 months later. She also admitted to cheating on the first 4 husbands. She tired that with me but I laughed at her. She never really liked me much after that.

A sucker born every minute.

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wow...you are so right about this...women do this kind of thing all the time. I have to admit, I was like that in my younger years. I'd complain about needing help, and when he'd give it, I'd criticize. I remember how he loaded the dishwasher and I took every dish back out and loaded it again because he "did it wrong." Looking back, it's a wonder he ever helped me at all! I learned, over time, to keep my mouth shut. So what if the dishes weren't loaded the way I thought they should be loaded, the point is, he was truly trying to help and I was being completely anal retentive.

Thankfully I've learned to appreciate the things that men do to help. I'm not the critical perfectionsistic bitch that I used to be. I've learned to appreciate the intent behind the effort. It's so much more important than the outcome.

Gidday Julie,
Now that sounds like a pot willing to be stirred!
Girls going out and getting absolutely plastered then claiming to be raped on the way home, by the taxi driver that is helping to get their drunken arse out of the taxi before they vomit, yeah, that's rape.

I can't believe I forgot to mention: it's not enough to recognize his efforts in your mind, it's important to convey to him that you appreciate his efforts and that you see them for what they are: coming from the heart. He needs to know this, and he deserves to know it, and know that you mean it.

TERA,
Good stuff, mate.
One word, EFFORT.
If you tried something outside of your usual base of skills, and were constantly rubbished for it, wouldn't you be just a little bit peeved?
I mean, you make an honest effort to try and keep the house that you both live in clean, that sort of thing would send me underground, being told you are doing it wrong, constantly.

Men are task orientated, that is the way we are, as in: Start task, do task, does it look OK?, End task.
Men as ourselves aren't dumb, we know when something is clean and as far as we are concerned, that is all that is needed.

As a qualifier here, I do the great majority of the house-work and cooking here, as my partner does long hours as a Paramedic 80 miles from here.
I've had no complaints so far and she has said that I do a good job keeping things together here.

I also manage to do an 80 hour week at work.

It seems to me that a great deal of women these days are just too "picky" for their own good, they want to live the good life and expect not to do the mundane things, I could be way off here, but that is my own opinion.

Survey Q 1: 'Does your partner do any housework, and if so how much'

A: "Yes he does 22 hours a week. But then I have to do it all over again and it takes TWICE as long".

Q2. Does that include
a)petty whinging time,
b)casting aspertions on his manhood,
c)carping,
d)criticisng,
e)telling the neighbourhood women's mafia
f)phoning stupid, misandric radio programms to whine
g)all of the above

i remember actually getting ahead on the laundry-have it all washed folded and put away-only to have my ex wondering how i could be on top of things like that?(she did her best to make sure i couldn't).
A couple days later she "caught me"-get this.....i wasn't taking the clothes out of the washing machine 1 at a time and i wasn't shaking out every individual piece before i put it in the dryer(holy fuck).

I never did laundry again after that.

It's true that women often believe that they know the "right" way to handle domestic duties - if they don't take the time to instruct their partners then they are setting the guys up for criticism

I've lived with enough messy women to know that they have no special gift for household cleaning - and really, now that many work full-time and gave up on old-fashioned domesticity they have no right to act the expert anymore