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I dread laundry. Its one of signs you are still alive and soiling clothes. Some males never do laundry their entire lives. Their mothers do it until they marry
by peter303 8y ago
I dread laundry. Its one of signs you are still alive and soiling clothes.
Some males never do laundry their entire lives. Their mothers do it until they marry. Then their wives and daughters.
- etrautmann 8y agoI hope we soon see a world where laundry isn’t assumed to be gendered work. Nobody loves laundry but that’s why I wouldn’t want my partner to have to do it all...
- Gibbon1 8y agoWhen I was 9 or 10 my mother announced she wasn't doing my laundry any more. So I've been doing my own laundry for 45 years now. Frankly the only thing that is slightly annoying in a boring sort of way is turning the shirts right side out. It feels like the utopia our tech lords have is mind for us is one where we sit on the couch stuffing our faces 24/7 never having to leave the pod.
- kadoban 8y agoWhy bother turning the shirts right side out? You can do it directly before you put them on, and one at a time spread out over weeks always felt less tedious to me.
- misterman0 8y agoThat's very lazy of you to perform that computation only at the very last moment before you need it. And I guess it saves you the time it would take you to fold a shirt you were never going to utilize anyway. Very good! Do you have more hacks?
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- Gibbon1 8y agoI think if I were less lazy I'd turn them right side out when tossing them in the hamper.
- 4AC2DE6E 8y agoWashing inside-out is better (as in "extends the useful lifespan") for shirts with printing or embroidery on them.
- ehnto 8y agoYou won't need clothes in The Pod. The Sanitation and Nutrition Supplication Suit will take care of all your needs. All you need to do is relax and enjoy infinite stimulation.
- snissn 8y ago"Fluff and fold - the only way to live! I drop it off , I pick it up, it's a delight!"
- anonytrary 8y agoAs a single male with extremely few material possessions, I'm one of those people that does my own laundry but never folds their clothes. I used to watch my mom fold our clothes when we were little and seemed like a waste of time. Seeing as I wear extremely casual clothes, this isn't a problem for me. If I wore more formal clothes, I would fold/hang those. I just leave my clothes in my basket and pick out what I need every morning. It seems to work well enough.
- bobbylarrybobby 8y agoAren’t your clothes wrinkled?
- TomMarius 8y agoI buy clothes from materials that don't wrinkle (and have other benefits). More costly, but worth it.
- anonytrary 8y agoYes, they are, but that doesn't bother me much and no one has ever commented on it. Heck, I've even worn shirts inside-out and people barely notice. They're probably too busy thinking about their own appearances...
- jetrink 8y agoPeople don't comment on it out of politeness, but they do notice. Then, consciously and unconsciously, they draw negative inferences about you. They might suspect that you are not well organized or that you are lazy. You are free to be unbothered by that fact, but their reaction to your appearance is outside your control. It is a slight headwind in your life that makes your interactions with people more difficult than they have to be.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoSurround yourself with better, less shallow people.
- JJMcJ 8y agoMen who can't do laundry - even more pathetic than men who can't cook. If you can afford to pay for it, OK, but you should know how.
- belorn 8y agoEvery healthy person should be able to fulfill their basic needs. Have a job so they can afford to have a roof over their head and buy food, cook so they can feed themselves, and operate basic household equipments. Gender roles splits those so that only one gender is responsible for any given need. It might have been a useful optimization method in the past but not now in modern society.
- aiyodev 8y agoThere’s no need to make such a sexist statement. I have cleaned my own clothes since I was a child. My wife had never done the laundry until she moved in with me.
- Spare_account 8y agoI didn't read it as sexist in itself. It wasn't advocating for a female bias in laundry work, it was highlighting that the female bias does still exist in some households. I can contribute, like you have, that in my household the balance is different. This doesn't refute the observation, though.
- antt 8y ago>Some males never do laundry their entire lives. Their mothers do it until they marry. Then their wives and daughters. Some women don't either. First their fathers then their husbands. Kind of sad to see 1950s stereotypes not downvoted here.