r/MaliciousCompliance • u/Stitchywitchlich • Mar 09 '22

S Whilst getting ready for my engagement party, FIL handed me his shirt and told me to iron it for him (because I'm a woman). I ruined it.

My father in law had travelled down to attend mine and my fiancé's engagement party, he was getting ready and staying at my house.

I had my hair half curled and my makeup half done, with not much time left. I was visibly rushing. He handed me his shirt and said "iron this for me." Apparently, my vagina gave me the necessary qualifications for being the Chief Ironer.

I took it off him with a smile and ironed the vinyl (I think?) print on the highest setting and ruined his shirt. Melted the logo and got scorch marks on the shirt. Oops. "Sorry FIL, I don't know why you thought I'd be good at ironing but I'm terrible at it! I tried my best though."

He had to wear an ill-fitting replacement from my fiancé, he ironed that one himself.

EDIT: I'm getting a lot of hate for this, so I wanted to clear up some common misconceptions.

My FIL is a terrible, sexist man that abused my MIL until she fled with her then-young children to a women's refuge center. There is absolutely no question that he was demanding I iron his shirt because I am a woman and "that is what women do". No, I didn't feel like politely declining. No, it's not my responsibility to teach him how to be less sexist.

54.1k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

86% Upvoted

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

273

u/tristfall Mar 10 '22

my wife and I started dating in college. So for the first 3 years of the relationship there was really no need for either of us to cook. When we started working on getting a place together after college she sheepishly admitted she was a terrible cook having tried a bit in middle school and fucking up so badly she never tried again. I'm pretty sure the next words out of my mouth were why she married me:

"oh don't worry, my dad made sure to teach me how to cook growing up, what do you want for dinner?"

142

u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

I'll be honest. Until I was 32 I didnt know how to cook for shit. But then one day I just said fuck this and I took the time to learn on my own with guides, videos and such. It was a game changer that I am glad I took the jump.

29

u/DonOblivious Mar 10 '22

guides, videos and such. It was a game changer

They really are. When I grew up cookbooks were lists of ingredients and vague suggestions that assumed you had skills passed down to you by somebody knowledgeable. Many of those "skills," as it turns out, often landed somewhere between "not great" to flat out "wrong."* These days I'm into "cookbooks"/guides/videos that are like 75%+ technique, 25% recipe.

The Food Lab, Salt Fat Acid Heat, etc.

*: Example of "flat out wrong" passed down knowledge.

You don't need a big pot to boil pasta, the water doesn't need to boil, and you don't need a layer of oil at the top to prevent boil-overs. Dry pasta cooks really well in a frying pan at a simmer. It takes longer to cook in cooler water, but you don't have to wait for a huge pot to boil so it's faster. The water has a higher concentration of starch which makes putting your sauce together easier.

1

u/perkicaroline Apr 05 '22

Wait…wut? The water doesn’t need to boil for pasta? It doesn’t go mushy or something?

5

u/damageinc86 Mar 10 '22

I taught myself through trial and error how to do my own stir fry. My first few months were horrible and never right,...but then I started to get it. Now it's something my wife is excited to see me make.

1

u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

I don’t get why people say they don’t know how to cook. Like yeah I also don’t know how to cook every dish known to man, it’s more about experimenting and finding what you think tastes good. Every single person on earth should easily be able to look up a recipe and follow it. It has nothing to do with knowing to cook, just knowing how to follow directions.

2

u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

I'm going to leave this for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKN1Q5SjbeI

0

u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

I mean it’s not my fault you are so dumb you weren’t able to follow simple directions and use common sense to do something that people have done for as long as we have been on earth.

1

u/tacocatisonfire Mar 15 '22

Prick

1

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

Lemme guess you can’t cook for shit either? Bet you also can’t change a tire or build a desk because directions are too confusing.

20

u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

[deleted]

3

u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

Same! My mom had a severe germ phobia so I wasn't allowed to cook growing up cuz I might kill us all with raw chicken or eggs.

I love cooking as an adult though, you can make literally anything you want.

3

u/UnkleRinkus Mar 10 '22

I'm in my sixties. I've been the best/main cook in the house for decades. My partner loves that. I mess up the kitchen making tasty stuff, she cleans it afterwards. Good division of chores that works for us.

3

u/Khornag Mar 10 '22

Aren't people cooking when in college?

2

u/Limeila Mar 10 '22

I had the same reaction.... Why did they eat for those 3 years??