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Everyone who can should help out with clean-up unless you truly want to do everything yourself. (In which case, you don’t get to complain about it.) nyti.ms/4fOzRyT

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Agreed. Although I consider myself a traditional man, I don't believe women should be relegated to performing all the household chores. Men can help do them as well. That said, if either spouse is the sole income earner then we need to set expectations about what each spouse is expected to do.

I've always split household chores 50-50 with my wife as best as I could but what really made me commit to it is reading about how daughters who see their dads do a meaningful amount of household chores aspire to more high paying and meaningful careers in the future. Do it for her!

We’ve fallen into a nice routine here - the women cook most of the meal (my husband does the mashed potatoes and gravy) cleaning what we can as we go, and the men clean up while we sit down with a glass of wine. Works for us!

We tried that. I’ve resorted to staging some sort of home emergency, like shoving a towel down the clean out to clog the main sewer line, loosening a connection to cause a leak in the water softener, etc., so I just sit outside by the thing that needs to be “fixed” with a bunch of tools on hand. /s

This article makes so many assumptions. Boomers are mostly the people with outdated household roles. We equally both watch football and clean. I would say, I actually watch more football. My spouse likes fútbol or soccer.

WTF do you know about my family, our routines and traditions? Or anyone else’s?We have people coming and I’ll be overly disengaged from all kitchen activity.

Oh I’ve been saying this for years. Women are also the Santa and for some reason Santa gets the credit for it! I feel for all women during all the holidays because the amount of shit we have to do to carry through holidays is unbelievable.

Let's continue this further, let's be done with men protecting women, providing for women. Let's permanently do away with alimony, confirm all paternity with DNA testing, do away with child support in favor of equal parenting time. Women don't need men, they don't need a man's resources either.

After dinner my wife’s modest ass is rooted to her seat, and my big abundant son is already guzzling dessert. Our border collie is more likely to help ole Larry clean than those two layabouts. Thankfully I’ve learned to scream at them in a drunken rage! #badson #badwife #gooddog

I’m not sure I agree. I find cooking really relaxing and my husband loves football. I have no problem if he wants to watch football while I cook, but he better wash up!

That’ll never happen. Women care too much, men care too little. You want all the hype of thanksgiving, make it happen capt’n. I’d gladly take a Gobbler sammy from WaWa if it meant being left alone and was allowed to watch football in peace.