I’m not the artist, Pizzacake is. Source

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    Hey I’ll clean and be my GF/Wife’s best friend but I just don’t give much of a fuck about cooking.

    I’ll still do it, and funnily enough doing it for other people after I’ve already eaten sounds fine. But I despise cooking for myself and I’m really mediocre at it.

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      I fucked up a meal so bad thinking I was doing good, I literally didn’t have to cook for the first decade of my marriage. We’ve been happily married for over 21 years now, I think the best friend and always wanting her to have the best life she could helped the most.

      Took many years but I did eventually realize the best thing might in fact be the thing she suggests over the logical answer, but people really can get better with time.

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    If you do this about your spouse to your friends, they are gonna know because all your friends hate them or are awkward around them.

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    Once again, more low-hanging fruit from queen cringe. Outside of blocking the community, is there any way to block this slop from my feed?

    I can’t fucking stand her.

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          So what you’re saying is you’re so chronically online you not only can’t enjoy a comic strip because of who signed it, you feel the need to also announce it and try to take that enjoyment away from other people. Alright buddy… Are you ok?

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            Oh shit! I forgot! The internet is a place where people validate themselves by agreeing with every- and anything they see so as to strengthen their bond with hive. What was I thinking trying to raise awareness to a horrible shitty person that cause a lot of trouble for a lot of innocent people. My god! What was I thinking?!

            You must accept my sincerest of apologies. I didn’t mean to upset you with my outlying opinion of something you seem to be very protective of.

            From the heart of my bottom, please accept the forthcoming apology:

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              Next time you want to raise awareness about something, start with talking about the “something” before being an ass, maybe? You want to raise awareness and nowhere did you even say exactly what about. I don’t even know who this person is, nor do I care to know at this point because that would mean interacting with you again.

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              This is extremely weird behaviour for sure, I’ve been very critical of her work before, but I will admit this is a decent comic.

              She seems to have gotten tired of fighting with men on the Internet.

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                She got tired of starting fights and creating drama you mean.

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            She has the most consensual takes, yet acts like she’s some sort of rebel. She also has a bad reputation because mods on /r/comics simp for her and ban every comment even remotely critcal.

            Also her drawings are terrible.

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            She started some major drama getting accounts on Reddit banned and posts comets removed if someone so much as offered constructive criticism of her work. Then after starring a shitstorm of drama, she pretended to be a victim of the very shit she caused.

            She’s the worst.

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        This is why there needs to be an age limit to social media.

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      is there any way to block this slop from my feed?

      TLDR: You’re gonna have to research how based on how you view this community.

      The Methods I know:

      Not open the post when you see the artist-you-don’t-like’s name in the title?

      Or if you want a offload it to an automated system it’ll depend on how you view this community in general.

      Some apps (like Voyager, Connect, and Eternity) have filtering options in the settings and so do some frontends (Like Alexandrite) for Lemmy (I’m unfamiliar with PieFed instances though so YMMV on this front)

      I’ve also heard that it’s possible to setup uBlock Origin to do filtering on Lemmy and Reddit so perhaps that will work on PieFed (though if you use Chrome you’re gonna be SOL on this front with Google killing it on their platform)

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        Unfortunately, Voyager’s filter system only works on keywords. If people share it and the name isn’t mentioned in the title, it doesn’t get filtered. I’ve looked into it. That’s why I was asking. Maybe there’s something I was unaware of- but it seems that is not the case

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          Without an artist name mentioned in the title, yeah it’d make it to your feed.

          It’s odd though (if you’re using Voyager’s filtering that is) that this post made it to your feed as I always tag the artist in the titles on my post. It’s at the end formatted like “[artist name]” so it’s more clear for people.

          Perhaps try adding her name in square brackets to your filter instead?

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      I can’t fucking stand her.

      Yeah, we got that. Stop complaining. And stop opening the post you hate.

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        also because shes a woman that is making fun of the norms of “traditional man”, thats why people hate her. they never say anything when a man makes misogynistic comics.

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      No idea why this is downvoted, it’s substanceless virtue signalling or repurposing 5 year old reddit culture sentiments into 4 panel soullessness

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        No to mention how everyone nowadays likes to virtue signal everything under the sun but somehow gives this crone a pass for all the shit she caused.

        Selective outrage is a real thing…

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            Just look up “PizzaCake Reddit drama” and enjoy that rabbit hole. I don’t have the time or patience to type it all out.

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              I checked and skimmed it, basically she made a point on how men comment on women in the reversed perspective and people(presumably men) are angry about that which they made a mock sub solely about her and bully her on every occasion possible, which then brought that toxicity to lemmy when the exodus happened. And you want me to side with you…? 🤨

              I’m a man myself, this whole situation smell exactly like the Phil Fish controversy. Yall don’t get to call yourself a better person when all yall does is bully someone that is mildly annoying to you.

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                the commentor you responded, hates her because she makes fun of fascists, and MEN who think thier traditional roles should not be challenged by a women.

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                Lmao…. No, that’s not how it went down. But you do you. And how are you better? You “skimmed” info, got one or two takes and then judged me on the entire thing.

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                  I asked for your perspective, you’re too lazy to type it out, don’t blame me for not seeing your POV.

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    I’m a guy and this is me with my friends. Every time we hang out they have such boomer attitudes about their wives, one is even convinced that I’m gonna get divorced just because he did and views all marriages that way. It’s depressing, but there is one friend in the group who agrees with me that our wives are our best friends and soulmates.

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      I work in IT. Every time more than a handful of IT folks get together the talk always turns towards how shitty their wives are/were before the divorce.

      Or the wife is framed as someone who keeps them from buying tech stuff (“I’d like to upgrade my homelab, but the purchasing department keeps turning me down! Har har”).

      I’m just sitting here with a lovely wife who trusts me to spend money on what we need to keep the tech stuff working.

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        how shitty their wives are/were before the divorce.

        Why did they marry them then?

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        I think the main problem with most relationships is the myth that “opposite poles get attracted to each other”. No, the more you have in common with someone else, the more succesful, peaceful and enjoyable the relationship will be. That’s not always the case, for sure, and there’s obviously exceptions to that rule nevertheless, but are in the end just that, exceptions, not the norm, and when you date someone that doesn’t at least share your core interests, views and principles, you could and definitely will get constant arguments and fights because of the constant and often serious and intense clashes of expectations and ways of seeing and living life.

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          I think the main problem with most relationships is the myth that “opposite poles get attracted to each other”

          Imma go beyond this.

          The problem with the intergenerational “wisdom” being transferred is that a lot of this shit lost why they were memes worth spreading in the first place. It’s not “opposites attract”, its “marriage and raising a family and creating a good home environment requires a diverse skillset, and being different people allows you to bring that diverse skillset so that you can be self sufficient in your family group and have a degree of personal autonomy due to being able to dedicate yourself to different social groups and activities, while returning to each other and appreciating the time you have together.”

          It came out a little through the generational loss.

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            Yeah, and I’m good with that definition. But the problem is that most people are just interpretating it as if it were “I hatr parties and she loves parties, so we’ll be the perfect marriage with no doubt”, while that will cause so many problems because of these are two ways of socialization that are in the antipodes of each other. I myself hate parties as I’m heavily introverted and, also, I’m autistic, so I don’t really get well in large groups or people (or even in small groups of people if I don’t know them), and I also just hate the ambience of a party.

            Even with more small things it does apply. Like, I love anime, so I’d never date with someone who hates it.

            And it obviously will be more important when it’s about trascendental things such as religion, political views or philosophical stances.

            But most people just take it as “if you hate X, you have to date with someone that loves X” or “if you love Y, you have to date with someone who hates Y”; that’s not how it works.

            True complementarity needs to be built upon a strongly shared core of expectations, values, thoughts, ideas, visions of the world and ways of living life, because otherwise there will be little or not intelligibility.

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      My best friend was convinced that my ex wanted to get pregnant even though we’d been together for years and she had zero desire to have children. Nothing I said convinced him. I really don’t get it because it’s just not that uncommon anymore for people to not want kids.

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      I’ve had the opposite experience. A few year ago a bunch of the guys I hung out with in college got together at a Wurstfest (German festival every November in Bew Braunfels, Texas), and got super drunk. All the married guys were talking about how they just loved their wives so much.

      It was super wholesome.

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        German festival every November in Bew Braunfels, Texas

        Oh man, I was expecting a town in Germany and nearly broke my brain trying to pronounce “Bew Braunfels” in German.

        Then I read the “Texas”. 😅

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          It’s actually “New Braunfels”, but as a native Texan, just about everyone I know pronounces it “New Braunsvul”, for some reason.

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      I remember seeing here on Lemmy a while back that a good boyfriend/girlfriend is a best friend where there is also an erotic angle.

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      one is even convinced that I’m gonna get divorced just because he did and views all marriages that way

      Classic Divorced Guy

      there is one friend in the group who agrees with me that our wives are our best friends and soulmates

      Wife and I joke about how we can never get divorced because it would be too awkward when we kept hanging out as friends.

      But we also have a friend couple that did get divorced, and still hang out regularly on very good terms.

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        My parents vacation together 4 to 5 times a year (pensioners), all 4 of them are great friends. It’s so cute but a little bit wild, because during the last years of their marriage they really didn’t get along and I remember that time vividly.

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        But we also have a friend couple that did get divorced, and still hang out regularly on very good terms.

        Some people are just better as friends than lovers and I think that’s awesome if they can figure that out before doing irreparable damage to said friendship.

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          I have a pretty significant ex, and it certainly took some introspection and painful internal work, but I eventually was able to hang out with them again and still really value their friendship; I even invited them to my wedding, and attended theirs in kind.

          As I saw it, this person was my best friend for the majority of six years together, and I didn’t want to totally discard that part of myself that had that friendship, even if the romantic relationship didn’t ultimately work out.

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          Some people are just better as friends than lovers

          Mrs. Doubttfure taught me that same lesson!

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            I know it’s random, but can I just say I’m so happy that movie didn’t end with her falling in love with him again and leaving James Bond? He wasn’t even a bad guy! I’ve always respected that.

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        I dated a guy for 13 years, when we finally broke up we were still going to events together!

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      Same here

      After a few beers I usually just try to hold back the question why they’re even together with their wife, if they’re so unhappy with her

      I do get, that some people just need to vent, but I don’t have anything bad to say about my wife.
      She loves this piece of shit, that I am. In my eyes she is an absolute saint

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        That’s kind of my take. My wife puts up with me, and even seems to enjoy being around me. That’s pretty unusual and I question her judgement. I’m certainly not complaining.

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      It’s people who rush into relationships because they feel like they need one, instead of taking time to find your actual best friend forever.

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    My wife and I are basically attached at the hip. She’s my best friend and we do so much to support each other on all fronts.

    Meanwhile in our friend circles, it’s the total opposite. People that are clearly with the wrong partners but refuse to change or grow; one that continues chasing a relationship they’ve admitted is toxic for them; couples that are married out of what seems like trauma alone or they’ve simply drifted due to never communicating; a few with the weird “wife bad lol” boomer mentality; a now-acquaintance that used to always give everyone unsolicited advice, has now started expressing misogynistic views after being perpetually single. Just no capacity for introspection and self-reflection.

    My wife and I are by no means perfect, but we are open with each other, we cheer each other on, and we talk through things that bug us. The building blocks are simple but some folks refuse to adhere to them, while constantly wondering what went wrong.

    Women have always been the strongest leaders throughout my life. My wife is my world and I personally think that women make better leaders. I’ve never been interested in any of the dumb humor and thought tropes that come out of male circles about women, even dating back to high school. All of that shit has always felt weird and makes me lose respect for the men that lean on that kind of lazy punch-down humor.

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      I agree with everything except that women make better leaders, because i’d rather call it “different”. Leadership styles do differ, but which one is better depends on the situation. My wife was absolutely great at planning and improvising when something went wrong, while not having the calm needed for fine, detailed work - threading a needle was a pain for her, constructing something from Ikea made her really tilt; I OTOH absolutely suck at improvising (planning is fine, although realizing the plans is hard), while having no issue with very sensitive and rather annoying tasks, i simply kept my pace and cool throughout.

      We really were a good match in general, and would still be together if it weren’t for my other issues which made us slowly drift apart and smothered what we had. We still care for each other a lot and visit one another every few weeks and message daily, but how it currently stands we are both better off alone.

      Strangely I cope a lot better with the situation than her - i have a more active social life than i ever had before because i finally broke free of my permanent mental overload by living alone and being able to set my own rules, while her social circle currently crumbles without a clear reason why (although i think a lot of her acquaintances do resent her for dropping me, and gossip seems to spread like wildfire - she doesn’t deserve that at all, but even where i personally told people that I fully agree with the decision to separate, it doesn’t help at all)

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        I don’t even think that there exists such thing as “male” or “female” leadership. Leadership is just leadership, it’s genderless, just like a rock is just a rock.

        Ultimately, things just do exist, they don’t have genders. If anything, they’re only by their materiality and their objective and/or intrinsical features, not by something so subjective and arbitrary as gender.

        Some African and Native South-American “male” leadership styles are more similar to what in the Western culture would be considered a “female” leadership style.

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        I think the fact that you were able to identify your own struggles, while still maintaining a good relationship is huge. I think “different” is a better descriptor here over my saying it’s “better.” It’s always nuanced and everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. When you find that those blocks all naturally interlock together and you support one another to fill those gaps, that demonstrates a really healthy connection.

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      Most of my friends in relationships are happy there, but my wife and I are still notoriously happy in ours. I recently had a therapist comment about how we handle conflict surprisingly well after I explained it to her

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      Open, honest communication is the foundation for ANY healthy long term relationship. Spousal, friendship, family, all of it. It genuinely baffles me how many people don’t seem to get what that means. It doesn’t mean you need to be perfect. It means you need to approach tension in your relationship in good faith and with intent to fix it as a team, not as an excuse to shirk responsibility and blame others. Even if it isn’t your fault. Blame itself does not offer solutions.

      As a 100% polyamorous person, most folks first instinct is to ask me how I can manage it without getting jealous and are shocked to hear that, if anything, I feel orders of magnitude less jealousy than I would in an exclusive relationship. The problems they usually cite are problems that would be just as bad if not worse with monogamy, as evidenced by how many peoe cheat in monogamy. Their gut reaction is to imagine it as some sort of cuckold/cuckuean humiliation ritual when it really just comes down to the fact that I’m not perfect, I accept that fact and I want the ones I love to maximize the love they feel by seeking what I can’t provide from others. It’s such a burden off my chest. I can love my wife in the ways I do best and just be happy with that.

      I kinda lost track what I was talking about I’m a bit sleep deprived. But I’m happy you and your wife are flourishing and I hope any changes to come only serve to strengthen that 💚🐿️

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        I never understood why I should be jealous as a polyamorous person.

        Like I also get to bang other people. There’s literally nothing to be jealous of

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    If your friends trash-talk their partner behind their back, guess what they say about you behind yours.

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      Hot take: venting about the person you live with doesn’t mean you’ll be venting about people you hang out with occasionally.

      But it would be good to discuss your issues with the person face to face, regardless if it’s a friend, roommate, or spouse.

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        Hotter take: If they stay with someone they can’t talk to about their problems with, they’re going to have other flaws as well. A healthy functioning adult is not gonna be in that kind of relationship, or stay in it either

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          You said

          If your friends trash-talk their partner behind their back, guess what they say about you behind yours.

          I responded to argue that this wasn’t the case, and that some people complain about their live in partner but don’t complain about their non live in friends.

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            I know what I said.

            I know what you said.

            You aren’t clocking the situation correctly.

            Your partner getting on your nerves and you going to a therapist or a trusted friend to vent and/or get critical feedback is one thing.

            Getting into a circle of people who are griping about about their parter, especially when they twist your arm to join in the trash-talking, is another thing entirely. But even in a one-on-one situation, someone who trashes their partner (implying habituality), isn’t someone to trust with sensitive information. It’s a particularly cruel kind of gossiping, which you should also avoid. Because guess what happens when you talk to a gossip? They pry information out of you and spread it around.

            Also note that I said “trash-talking” where you said “venting.”

            Different situations.

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              You aren’t clocking the situation correctly.

              I’m not responding to the situation at large, I’m responding to your comment in isolation.

              someone who trashes their partner (implying habituality), isn’t someone to trust with sensitive information

              I don’t believe I agree with this, with the qualifier that I also don’t agree with trash talking your partner to begin with. I don’t think you’re right that if someone talks negatively about their partner that they can’t be trusted with information. Maybe it’s a cultural thing.

              Also note that I said “trash-talking” where you said “venting.”

              I’ll use trash talking from now on if it helps.

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        I’ve embraced it. With exes on good terms I know I’m someone they had a good time with but it ended for some reason. For one woman I’m a damaged bitch who threw away something good to be a slut (I realized monogamy wasn’t something I could agree to after she told me she needed it, didn’t cheat), and for the woman she and I had been dating at the time I’m still a bad ex, but I was one of the least bad exes she’d had yet.

        I also had one woman who pressured me into romantic stuff I absolutely didn’t want who actually did try to spread damaging lies about me, but people in the community believed me over her because she kept pulling the same crap and I was a respected member of the community. That one sucked, but nothing she pulled after was half as bad as an afternoon during.

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    omg just about every time coworkers talk about their husbands I leave the conversation feeling really, really, really grateful for what I have

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    Relationships work best when you just do things.

    Only job I don’t touch is laundry. I’m perfectly fine doing it, but my spouse has the most convaluted ADHD non-system. When I do help I end up washing clean clothes and putting away dirty clothes because I can’t tell what pile is what.

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      I love my partner but honestly, gun to my head, I could never get a load of her laundry done without disaster. I tried, but determining which of her infinite identical black articles of clothing are hand-wash only, which are dry-clean only, which are cold wash hang-dry, which are tumble dry light, etc. is a skill I completely lack. Add to it that she’s autistic as all hell and so has removed the tags from every article of clothing she owns and I never stood a chance on this one…

      (meanwhile my own laundry follows the “if it can’t go into the wash on heavy-duty, hot, it’s weak and needs to be culled from the herd” line of thinking. I’m not particularly presentable, I admit.)

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        Yeah, my wife and I have a general rule that if it goes in the laundry basket it gets cold regular duty then high heat tumble dry unless otherwise stated (as in each time it’s in there). I’ve got a few hang drys and so I just say I’m doing the laundry when they’re in it. And I always fold because I’m the one who’s more peculiar about how my dresser is organized.

        There’s a certain point in peculiarity where if you need the chore done that way you can do it yourself or you can learn to live with how your partner does it

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      All I had to do was ruin a few articles of her clothing and I was off the job. I was truly trying to be helpful, but the blowback was real. I still do my own, however.

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        First sentence sounded a lot like weaponized incompetence. 😅

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          IKR? I was accused of that, but it was honestly unintentional even if the results were not entirely undesirable…

          Laundry go in machine come out wet. Put in next machine, come out dry. It was a while ago and I have since learned there is nuance with fabrics/temps/hang dry, etc. I still do just my own laundry as the lesson is not forgotten, but I am also approved for general sheets and towels duty. You do what you will with the original information!

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      My spouse set up individual tubs for each person’s clothes to be put in after the dryer (including tubs for blankets and towels).

      Very organized, but the entire laundry room floor is covered in these individual tubs.

      I fold things as soon as I take them out of the dryer so I can avoid the tubs.

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      My wife and i kind of just fell into set tasks that we dont mind doing, but the other person hates. For example, i hate emptying the dishwasher, but i dont mind filling it. She does all the laundry, i do all the bathroom cleaning.

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        It was in earnest. I’m one of the haters and this got a chuckle out of me.

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            Idk why this is being downvoted.

            Like her comics or not - that’s on you - the reality is that people that criticize them are called incel misogynists, and god forbid you make state that on any of the comic subs (they’ll nuke your account).

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        She was interacting with redditors and twitter people for a bit. convinced the entire internet was those sorts of people.

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          If i interact with redditor and twitter(twitteror?) i’d think the same too. If i went on Thread i will want to shut down the whole internet.

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            At one point I was trying to tell artists about lemmy/piefed/etc… every time I posted on r/comics I would get auto-modded/ auto-removed comment. It was unfortunate. We may have less people here…but they are generally nicer. At the very least actual human beings. Thats been my experience last 2-2 years now.

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        She’s not. She’s saying something positive about a man. But more broadly saying men are incompetent & acknowledging the exceptions.

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          She isn’t saying that at all.

          She is saying that those women complain about their spouse all the time. Nothing about those men actual abilities.

          You making that connection says more about you than about her comics.

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      Does it count as a punchline when it’s a fairly played out trope at this point?

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    I remember my ex-wife telling me something similar - i wasn’t even a very good husband because of my psychiatric issues which weren’t fixable, but i gave her attention and wanted her to feel good. Seemingly the average hubby is failing even at this if the feedback she got back from her friends and colleagues was worth anything.

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        I don’t think that’s the case, i did not have close contact with my ex’s colleages, but the 3 pairs i got to know pretty much confirmed the complaints - hubbys rather gaming all night long than caring for the newborn child or working on his education that he started years ago, using very aggressive voice when talking with their wives, not even touching anything in the household outside of making a mess and so on.

        I was very bad regarding chores because of my permanent mental overload (oh how much i tried to live up to expectations only to fail again and again), but at least i tried and she recognized it (She always said the most important thing was that i kept trying. Actually, that really was the most important thing, because it helped me develop at least some skill regarding self-care). I also loved to cook elaborate meals for her, even when it stressed the fuck out of me, and was able to bake our own rye bread for about 3 years which she absolutely loved. I also always was able to make her birthday a very special event (one time i filled the entire living room with helium filled balloons over night which she really loved - we played around like children in there, and the cats were thrilled too lol).

        When talking with the wives, there was an absolute absence of things like these in their marriages. I’d say their complaints were absolutely valid.

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        Yeah, my behavior towards her never really was an issue in the relationship, it was the inability to pull my weight because of my problems, and the quirks that come with my diagnosis like being bad at receiving criticism (at least when completely unprepared to receive it - i learned to step back emotionally if being told i’d get feedback which worked good enough, but that’s pretty clunky in a relationship)

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        Often times it’s damn near on the ground but don’t worry, there’s guys that still bring a shovel

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    I saw this from another angle a while ago. Speaking to a group of women at work and mentioned I do pretty much all the cooking at home. One of them asked what I make and I got the impression she doubted my ability, she is older and perhaps basing this off her own husband.

    So I listed some weekday meals I typically make, made a point that it is all stuff I make after work too because someone had mentioned not having the time to cook.

    Sourdough pizza, egg fried rice and lemon chicken, toad in the hole, pie with roast potatoes and gravy. Then sometimes if we want a pudding I sometimes make rice pudding, or steamed sponge like a jam roly poly or spotted dick.

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      I am a big fan of weekday risotto since learning you don’t actually have to stir it if you have a good sealing dutch oven or pressure cooker and short grain rice.

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        Risotto isn’t something I usually cook, maybe I should try it sometime. I don’t normally stir rice when cooking it anyway. Currently got very cheap white rice which can be a little sticky compared to the basmati rice I usually cook with, but its not a massive problem.

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          Its a great way to make some broth and random veggies into something very tasty. I like to do mushroom with soy sauce and miso but lots of stuff works

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    Lol my wife works in a clinic with some folks that are a little messy, with messier SOs.

    I get so much goodwill for just laying in the cut. Sending a meme instead of a mean text is apparently a hard hurdle to clear for some folks.