Socialization…. True. But do we allow ill ideologies to keep being passed on even to the next generation? It’s now our place to to teach all our future kids basic life skills such as cooking be them male or female. If men are not stigmatized for their lack of culinary skills then women shouldn’t be also. The double standard is our problem.

BTW, I’m team everybody should know how to cook, after all we all eat so why not?

Interesting. I found the notion that ‘cooking and cleaning’ are the only chores at home a little absurd (that’s why i decided to write this). This has made men who cannot cook appear patriarchal or bullies. When the fact actually is, they can’t cook, so they can’t help in that area. Well, for the time being they would have to learn to cook some dishes to assist when the need arises. I was actually proposing a short-term solution: men should do the things they can do best at home and women should do same. In the long-term, we would look at your solution: to socialize our children in a more gender-sensitive way. That is exactly what you said there. But in the short-term, i think it would be cool if we all just do what we know how to do best. thanks for the comment though.

It may surprise you to know that the idea of housewives was more a thing of the West, where women will stay home, raise the family, etc and the men will handle the money-making parts, then with modernization within which sprung urbanisation, it became a thing in the urban areas especially, of our parts. Now things are changing again, and rapidly too over the years. The economic activities of women has expanded to include a lot of previously male-dominated activities. But trust that women have entered the labour force and are thriving there. But as you said, there is very much the socialization that genders house chores and so most people grow up being better able to handle A or B which could help seeing some change in that I won’t socialize my kids to see say kitchen chores as feminine roles and garden roles as masculine. It is a gradual thing, one modern family at a time.

Yes, I do believe too that in homes, partners should be able to come to agreements that involve sacrifices, compromises and adjustments to ensure fairness and a healthy emotional environment to raise kids in. There is no one-size-fits-all in the institution of marriage or any other union that has two people raising their kids together.

Now this is why I barely comment on posts, lol…I end up going on and on.

Keep writing. Cheers!