Excellent points.

This guy’s thinking is stuck in traditional roles and stereotypes that have him trapped in a weird narrative.

It’s funny, my grandparents lived traditional roles but my grandfather’s never spoke of my grandmothers in this kind of diminishing, disrespectful manner that this guy speaks of wives and women.

They realized that even though their wives didn’t work outside the home at a paid job, their labor and money management contributed to overall net benefit of the family. Food grown in a garden is money unspent at the grocery store. Pennies saved by mindful shopping are pennies left in the bank. Home repairs you learn to do yourself is money that can be set aside. Research into investment opportunities means your money earns on itself. And so forth and so on.

They knew a penny saved was a penny earned. They knew their ability to build actual wealth rather than living paycheck to paycheck resided in the unpaid labor of their wives. They weren’t snobs about their jobs or the money it brought in toward their wives.