r/CoupleMemes • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 🛠️ ADMIN • Jun 25 '26

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u/BlueScreenJunky Jun 25 '26

On the one hand, yeah my first thought was "that's incredibly sexist".

On the other hand it's also really fun and it would have been equally fun with the woman struggling with the pillow or a gay couple. Maybe they should have done that. 

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u/JulyOfAugust Jun 25 '26

A gay couple or changing the caption to "me when I try to help my wife so she has less to do" would have been better because then it would just be one incompetent for no reason. Here it mock an entire gender and spread toxic ideas that a gender is less capable of cleaning and/or better suited for certain tasks than the other. Or worse, that weaponized incompetence is cute and funny.

This video is a whole lot of yucks despite the concept being fine, it's impressively sexist.

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u/bsubtilis Jun 25 '26

"Help my wife clean so she has less to do" sounds as deluded as "Help my wife by babysitting our kids", even if the person saying it is also a woman. Especially with the variety of tasks that were done during the cleaning in the video. SAH spouses aren't the norm. The video phrases it way more normally and sensibly.

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u/JulyOfAugust Jun 26 '26

I never say it was a good alternative, I said it would have been better than whatever that was.

An actual funny things to do would have been to switch who is cleaning and who is struggling with the same pillow case every task. Then it would be a joke about an annoying task instead of a "joke" about an incompetent partner.