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I'm good at cooking. I suck at cleaning. Unless you're talking about teensy tiny millennium old artifacts and bone fragments. Then I'm awesome. But the point is ... I get really irritated that cleaning products are marketed almost exclusively to women. I'm a woman, and I hate cleaning. I'm so bad at it I will trick other people into cleaning for me. I try to clean and ... it's just bad. And frankly ... I don't see why I should have to unless I live alone. I'll be the probable breadwinner for whatever domestic arrangement I end up in and even if I weren't it would be far more rational to divide chores along skill rather than gender lines. Besides, with gender lines I'd have to earn half to most of the household money AND do ALL of the chores. What's my hypothetical husband gonna do? I mean ... you can only clean the gutters so often. Pick up a scrubber boys. Or whatever it is you're supposed to use to clean. I dunno. I really don't get this stuff.
I also resist cleaning and buying cleaning products on socio-political grounds. Those commercials are fucking sexist. In fact, I try to only use products where they have a man cleaning or no one cleaning in the ads. This of course, severely limits what I can buy. But ... fine I'll buy from companies that are too small to advertise or just use hot water when I can. Really, I think guys should be just as insulted by that crap. It portrays them as bumbling useless toddlers that are merely tolerated and must be followed about and sternly frowned at by their intellectually superior wives. So unless you're a bumbling useless toddler in a bad marriage with a smart woman I think you should be mad at the stereotype these ads are trying to create. Really, it would be far more effective for everyone to show a woman like me who's sort of a bumbling forgetful intellectual getting distracted from a task and knocking something over or otherwise making a mess and have her handsome loving and obviously very together husband sweep in with the cleaning product. Then she goes "oh you cleaned up the gooey mess" gives him a kiss and then forgets where the hell she is again.
I also resist cleaning and buying cleaning products on socio-political grounds. Those commercials are fucking sexist. In fact, I try to only use products where they have a man cleaning or no one cleaning in the ads. This of course, severely limits what I can buy. But ... fine I'll buy from companies that are too small to advertise or just use hot water when I can. Really, I think guys should be just as insulted by that crap. It portrays them as bumbling useless toddlers that are merely tolerated and must be followed about and sternly frowned at by their intellectually superior wives. So unless you're a bumbling useless toddler in a bad marriage with a smart woman I think you should be mad at the stereotype these ads are trying to create. Really, it would be far more effective for everyone to show a woman like me who's sort of a bumbling forgetful intellectual getting distracted from a task and knocking something over or otherwise making a mess and have her handsome loving and obviously very together husband sweep in with the cleaning product. Then she goes "oh you cleaned up the gooey mess" gives him a kiss and then forgets where the hell she is again.