I saw a weird thing today. John Scalzi posted a silly tweet
about his wife using her feminine wiles to seduce him into folding the laundry.
It was just about as witty as it was forgettable and the world moved on. Except
one man who felt it necessary to pronounce to the world that this was begging
his wife to cheat on him and refer to the whole as emasculating.
Nope, not gonna link to him because he’s received enough
traffic for this nonsense.
Now, I understand sexism and misogyny. I don’t agree with
them, but I grasp the underpinnings of the kind of worldview they present. This
just confuses the crap out of me.
Does he believe women cheat on their husbands because they help
out with basic, non-woodchoppy and/or animal-killing duties? I kind of wonder if he’d been cheated
on almost immediately after folding laundry and he’s used that excuse ever
since. Also, did she cut off his balls afterword? That could explain the
paranoia, but I hope this hasn’t happened enough times to make him believe it
is how everyone acts.
My wife only cheats on me when I refuse to wrestle grizzlies
in the nude and denigrate the effeminate. Admittedly, she is more liberal than
most of my friends’ wives but the point is that not all women are this crazy. Behavior
like Scalzi’s really just merits a disapproving frown and all of womankind
laughing at him behind his back for his gullibility. Kind of like that time you
did the dishes back in 1997 but not as bad as when you made a quiche.
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