Hmm. If you think that was the 3rd degree, I’m going to have to refer you to the Urchling or the HellHound who will be able to define for you in glorious detail what the third degree ACTUALLY looks like. You seem confused, easily triggered, or just fragile.
Secondly, I cannot rebut the main article because I see her point and find it to be a legitimate one. Do I think it’s universal? No, but she didn’t claim it was. Do I think she speaks for everyone? No but she didn’t claim to. Is it something I have experienced myself? No, not in many years, but I know many women who really struggled through the pandemic because of it. If we’re just being honest, quarantine was a breeze for me...no man living with me to muck it up, leave me feeling resentful, drowning, and alone. My household runs well, mostly because everyone involved, even the dog steps up when and however they’re needed.
I don’t have to beg and plead for it or be made to feel like a failure because I can’t do everything.
That gives me breath and space to see my sisters around the world struggling. Since my kid was still in school during the start of the pandemic, I know very well how that went for most moms. Also, I got a bird’s eye view of a lot of men being aggrieved little drama whores toward their partners because they got asked to step up and be a man, a husband, and a father instead of a petulant, spoiled and whiny child or just plain dead weight.
These psychological studies giving credence to poor behavior and partnering from men is not going to work out well for you men. But experience says men will latch on to it and start spouting a bunch of evolutionary psychology BS and use it as an excuse to further disengage from participating in their families, leaving women stranded and hanging.
Regardless, using extreme circumstances like mental illness as a form of false debate to attempt to negate how the pandemic affected women is about your feelings; how you feel bad that you’re not getting the female attention you think you deserve. It is not objective reality, nor is it a fair or adequate way to disagree or challenge someone’s argument.
If you’ve got a legit one, then by all means let’s hear it. But don’t compare apples to oranges and think you’re making a sound point. You’re not.
You disrespect readers by treating them like you think they’re stupid with this sort of noise. And that’s all it is. Noise.
