I just left my husband alone with our two children for sixteen days. I was not worried about anything regarding the house, their food, or their wellbeing. I put all the appointments in the family calendar and my husband checked it and kept them. I literally did not worry about them. I missed them, and I was sad that they missed me, but I didn’t worry about them AT ALL. I need to impress upon you all that I missed their company, but was not worried for their welfare.
I also did no meal prep. I don’t even think I went shopping right before I left.
This is not about apples and oranges. This isn’t even about my husband. This is about the fact that this is apparently WEIRD.
Another mum at my daughter’s school is leaving for ten days. She’s taking her youngest (who is a very small baby) and leaving her husband with their two girls. She has been cooking for days preparing freezer meals. She’s panicking and deputizing her six year old to remind him how to make school lunches. AND I AM APPALLED.
A) He is definitely not helpless. (He’s a doctor or something.) What gendered bullshit. B) THAT LITTLE GIRL IS NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER AND HER SISTER’S WELLBEING. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. C) Why is she married to this person and creating children with him if he’s this big of an idiot?
While she was laughingly recounting this, the other mums were nodding and smiling sympathetically, like oh yes, I too have my caveman at home!! Such managing required! I was the only one who was like “Dude, he’ll be fine. Literally. He will be fine.” I said it a lot. She was not convinced. She kept bringing up her older daughter. She’ll be like a little mum!
NO.
NO NO NO NO.
NO.
Straight women, don’t do this shit. It’s gross. Don’t infantilize your husbands and then expect your daughters to pick up the slack. So fucking gross. So. So. GROSS.
The fact that so many adults think a six year old girl is more capable of learning and performing basic domestic tasks than a grown-ass man says it all, really.
You should never have children with someone you cannot comfortably, and without a second thought, leave in charge of your kids. People are wild.
what I like about this is that it seems to have captured the exact point at which all three of them simultaneously realised the implications of this moment.
you can look from one to the other and it appears that each one is thinking the exact same thing.
(Della is impulsive and stubborn which lead to her very big mistake and Scrooge enables her which is also a very big mistake on his side. Both of them didn’t tell Donald, another very big mistake- that should be the lesson of the entire arc.)
Another great Black Panther cosplay crossover. I’m told it’s called the Sailor Milaje – which is a great team name. Sounds like something that I’d love to see in the Ready Player One world.
If anyone can tell me where this is from, I’ll gladly credit them and give a link to their source. I found this on the Facebook group I’m on and the title is all I was able to gather… for now. Update: Apparently, these fine ladies were at BlerdCon which was held at Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport in Virginia.
Sandra Soapbox Cosplay 