Lately I've been seeing it commented on here and elsewhere online that it's no longer masculine to work hard, but rather that hard work has become "feminine", the result being that men now see being lazy as masculine, are acting accordingly and are thus becoming a drain on society.
This theory just makes so much sense to me and I was wondering where you ladies see this being played out in our societies.
Women have ALWAYS done the majority of the work in the world, but they weren't recognized for most of it. Look at nature. It's the female bears, lions, tigers, great white sharks, orcas that are the great huntresses. The males are always looking to live off the hard work of the females. Society has to be rigged so that women cannot work and succeed for men to act "masculine." It's obvious that protecting and providing is not natural to human males, because they only do so when when forced by laws and social pressures. Left to their own devices, they will not work or even try. If they're not issued a wife and forced at gunpoint to work, they won't. They'll live off of women and lay up on their couch taking food from her children's mouths.
Hard work has ALWAYS been feminine, lmao
I don’t think it’s recent, I think men’s laziness is ”tale as old as time”. Women have always been in the background getting shit done. If all women stopped everything they do, I genuinely believe civilization would fall apart in just 1-2 weeks just from the lack of childcare and senior care alone.
Any time I’ve watched a documentary on indigenous cultures there’s almost always a scene where the men f*ck off to hunt but usually goof off the whole time instead (being loud and scaring away all the prey) and come home empty handed while the women stayed in the village and made food for everyone. The warmer the climate, the more lazy the men. Up in the chilly north, indigenous tribes tend to have a practice of murdering useless lazy men by taking the undesirables “hunting” but then murdering the unsuspecting man. The climate is so harsh that one bad man can bring down a whole community.
Before contraception, women had to stay home with kids and the laundry and cooking took forever before modern appliances. Women’s domestic work was so labour and time intensive that men were forced to work hard to support their families. The choice for men was work hard or everyone starved to death. You can bet men resented the hell out of it and we’re seeing the delusional entitled fallout now in these men who don’t think they should have to work at all but still somehow deserve a woman.
Today, women don’t have to have kids or do extensive domestic labour. So men are trying to use us as meal tickets so they can afford to be lazy and unemployed. They genuinely think it’s what women used to do to men. They think it’s their turn. They think every stay at home woman in history has been a gold digger who had it easy. They don’t see the soul crushing work women had to perform as wives and mothers. They don’t see the unbalanced power dynamic. They don’t see the servitude and marital r*pe.
Man baby has been around for so long. I watched clips of a show called "room raiders" and it's an interesting view into the early 2000s man babies and scrotery lol. The dudes with the nicest rooms tended to live with their mommas and I'm like "that's not fair, his mom did that" lol and "Kyle the frat boy does NOT garden, cmon, I thought we were judging rooms not houses"
I see this at workplace. Very few men work hard while rest are playing hard at workplace politics.
Even though women also play workplace politics, most of them work hard as well. They combine these 2 to their benefit.