Thread by @thetimes

The average the British man has five more hours of leisure time a week than women, according to the ONS, which they guard ruthlessly

"Weaponised incompetence” is one tactic they employ, writes @HelenRumbelow

thetimes.co.uk/article/weapon…

In the 1970s ambitious women who were determined to crack into male professions were told not to get good at menial tasks

Never learn to type etc, or you would be stuck doing the tiresome, lowly jobs

No wonder men learnt to employ this exact tactic at home

Documented examples of “weaponised incompetence” atrocities, such as men charged with “clearing up after dinner” and jamming a whole slow cooker sideways in the fridge, are being examined on social media

Sociologists are not exactly surprised. One man told a researcher during a study on household labour that his wife was “just better at the peasant stuff of life”

"Incompetence is the weapon used in guerrilla hand-to-hand fighting of heterosexual relationships, a slow creeping fog of deliberate malpractice that creates a noise of respiratory distress in the enemy" |✍️@HelenRumbelow

Claudia Winkleman tells a story about her mother, the Fleet Street editor Eve Pollard. When asked by her husband to iron his shirts, she smiled and accepted the task

Then she burnt his shirts. “So sorry, just no good at this!”

He did not ask again

When you hear the words “Oh God, it’s easier just to do it myself” you know the other side has surrendered

Read more here: thetimes.co.uk/article/weapon…