captainlordauditor:

dylan-is-deryn:

emorikomspacekru:

the-hairypotter:

just-shower-thoughts:

If we went home from our 9 – 5 jobs with 3 – 4 hours of extra work every day, we’d lose our minds. But we do it to high school kids and see absolutely no problem with it.

Idk how to break it to you, but women do this all the fucking time. I see my mother in law, who is a vet and makes more than her husband does as an optometrist, come home after hours of standing, performing surgeries, wrestling with large dogs and getting bitten on the reg, to cook elaborate dinners for the family while her husband takes a nap or looks at his iPad for a few hours… if you look at the hetero adults in your life you can see this dynamic play out over and over again. Maybe men come home and get to stop working, but women work full time jobs and come home to work for 3-4 hours all the time.

it’s so common among heterosexual relationships that it has a name – the second shift

Growing up, my father always came home at 4pm (and at 1pm in the summer). He spent the rest of the day on the sofa or “working” on his pc. He never – never – did anything else: he never cleaned in his life, never did any laundry, or hung it out to dry. He knew how to make 2 dishes: pastasciutta and scrambled eggs. And, of course, he couldn’t be trusted to buy groceries (I mean, his job was highly technical and very complex, but men just can’t figure out shopping, am I right?)

My mother came home at 6/7pm (even later than that if she had to buy groceries).

Me and my sister would come home between 1 and 4pm, depending on the school year and day of the week (sometimes even later, for extracurricular activities). We did our homework and study at least until dinner.

And somehow we were also expected to keep the house, and especially our rooms, perfectly tidy and clean. He complained

about the state of our home all the time, often violently, to the point that both me and my sister now suffer from anxiety. And yet it never occurred to him that he could have fixed the problem by not sitting on his ass all day.

I remember that once one of our family friends asked him if he ever helped in the house, and he said: “Why would I? I have a wife and two daughters.”

We do it to teachers, too, which is seen as a female profession.