My parents are divorced, and for the summer, I'm working with my dad in Los Angeles (I usually live with my mom). My dad is this super Christian guy, and though I came down her as his guest, he has this 'it's a woman's duty' mentality. So he's had me doing laundry, cooking and cleaning the house. He lives alone as of now. So like. I know this is the spam zone so there will be a lot of the KITCHEN PLZ HURR mentality but srsly, sexist or do I just have daddy issues? :|
It could be a combination of things. Such as him being lazy or sexist. Who knows I am not him nor do I know him. Although one thing that it could be is he could have been brought up where that is what women did and that is what he is used to and what he finds to be "the way things work". I wouldn't take any offense to this but perhaps talking about it may help. It also may make things a tad bit worse depending on how he reacts. Regardless I wish you the best of luck.
Yeah, he just went through another divorce, lmao. So I'm thinking, maybe his way of coping is to have me act like his wife would have? Which I think is really creepy. But I feel the need to approach him about this. Somebody should post a picture of cats.
He certainly isn't trying to be creepy. I assume. Anyway if you want to talk about it and he isn't the person to freak out with these things then that is your best choice. Again good luck and
Erm ... he lives alone, he probably found out how to do it one way or another. ^^ What kind of job exactly ? Maybe laundry, cooking and cleaning is a good bargain after all, unless of course we' re just talking extras and that would be unacceptable, Christian or not (unless he' s a fifteen century Christian ?) I guess it' s OK if he just wants to split the charges though, not very classy but still ... Furthermore if he barely ever learned to cook anything decent unless it' s made with pasta you might end up wishing you were the one cooking. ^^ However if he' s really throwing some caveman thinking at you try to be nice when you explain to him why you shouldn' t have to do all this, I' ve got a hunch his two divorces aren' t entirely unrelated with this problem.
Your dad is lazy. He doesn't want to do all those things himself. Hell, I hate doing that stuff too, but he's just trying to use his Religion to justify being selfish. You should help here and there, but you guys should be spending time together and having fun. Now back to the kitchen. c:
Saying "A woman needs to do all the housework" is awful. That's called sexism. Like iFuk said, it's using your religion as an excuse to be lazy. What you're saying about him making you act like what his wife would is unlikely, although if it starts to seem that way, you might need to approach him, although perhaps in a subtle manner. Also, a light-hearted picture of a cat. Spoiler
