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submitted 8 months ago by BmeBenji@lemm.ee to c/theonion@midwest.social

“No sense in letting my 40 identical gingham blouses go to waste.”

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[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 69 points 8 months ago

If I could find a woman who could pay all our bills on one wage I'd go house husband in a fucking heartbeat. I'm the better cook anyway.

If you want to make that your personality thats the weird part.

[-] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 15 points 8 months ago

Same! I tell my wife all the time I'd be happy to be a house husband. Unfortunately, like many families, we need to be a two income household.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

I work from home and do chores between meetings so I'm kind of both

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Damn you're a tradwife and a tradhusband?

[-] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago

Are you me? I'm in the exact same situation. WFH has its benefits, but definitely has some downsides.

It's spring break this week so I said fuck it and took the week off. Wasn't even going to try to juggle work and all the kids home.

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I do the same thing! It's good for me I'm sure too as I don't just sit at my computer for 8 straight hours. Laundry, dishes, trash, whatever I'll do as needed throughout the day.

I will say though, I've started going out more for lunch as dumb as it sounds. If I eat at home I default to eating at my desk which doesn't help with the staring at the screen all day.

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Ah, the executive-level breadwinning wife.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 39 points 8 months ago

​“​I wanted to live all my internalized misogyny, not just dream about it.”

“I believe in choosing a marital structure from an arbitrary point in human history and pretending it represents some kind of inviolable rule.”

“I just couldn’t resist the raw sexual magnetism of an antisocial dipshit who gets all his information from podcast clips on YouTube.”

Never change, Onion. Never change. <3

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

They kind of petered out on the last handful but the front half had me cracking up.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 7 months ago

Danielle really taking a (small) one for the team

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 6 points 7 months ago

I'm a single cis hetero male in his late 30s. Got to admit I like the trad wife fantasy. But I also recognise it's just that, a fantasy. Despite the fact it's unlikely I'd get along with the sort of woman who'd agree to that sort of life, who the hell could even afford it? It's something politicians can say "they took from you" so we look at "them" to distract from what those polticians are taking from you.

I work as a Linux engineer (big surprise for a Lemming I know). I don't make a huge amount of money but it's still more than most people I know. I live a fairly comfortable life here in a not so great part of a somewhat deprived working class English town. I couldn't afford to live in the countryside, let alone support someone else whilst there. Maybe if I did have a wife who made our clothes, was able to spend time to shop super frugally and made our food from scratch we'd be OK but we'd still live in relative poverty.

Is that the hope of these trad wife influencers? That we'll be so busy churning our own butter and erecting our own barns like the Amish we'll have no time to react to them conquering the world?

[-] whoreticulture@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

I thought Linux engineers would make a lot of money? Especially at your age?

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

I'm a first year apprentice. I'll be fully qualified when I'm 40. If I start contracting after that I could earn some pretty crazy money. Might start looking for a mail order Mrs then, you never know.

[-] whoreticulture@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

that's so creepy dude 😬

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

It was also a joke pardner 🤠

[-] whoreticulture@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

It's a creepy joke! Don't make it!

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

Think I'll do what I like Chief. Might even go that route out of spite. Good ol' fashioned spite wife

[-] whoreticulture@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Do what you will but everyone is going to call you creepy, because you are.

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