Weaponized Incompetence
Hi guys! Lately on my Tik Tok, I’ve seen a lot of videos discussing/responding to videos posted by women in heterosexual relationships. In these types of videos, the woman laughingly recalls how her male partner messed up something she’s usually in charge of. For example, it might be about how he changed their kid’s diaper wrong, or used the wrong laundry detergent, or, I don’t know, almost gave their kid arsenic because he doesn’t know which bottle labels correspond to which. The severity of the mistakes range depending on the videos, but the bottom line tends to be that they’re comedic, with the women laughing over the men’s ‘sweet’ but failed attempts to take on traditionally female-tasks. However, other groups on Tik Tok do not find these videos so funny. Many responded to them in frustration, saying that men in these relationships are perfectly capable of learning how to do these tasks, but don’t because they’d rather just leave it to the women. Hence the...