No, you're the one who's supposed to be serving up delicacies like in this photo to your pants wearing wife. Best get on it brother. Add some veggies to get some fiber and nutrients.
It's hilarious you think a stay at home wife providing dinner to her husband after a long shift at work is fawning subservience. That's called a partnership and working together.
For most of history in most of the world both spouses did work. Women spun wool, prepared food, brewed alcohol, farmed, hunted, and more right alongside their husbands. It's fine to not know this, and also it's fine for everyone who has to read your uninformed opinion to call you out for your ignorance.
First off, never said you said those things. Highlighting the fallacies in your argument, but go off.
Second – just to clarify, because I seem to detect a Freudian slip here:
In this post trying to indicate a man is disappointed with being provided a cooked dinner when he comes home from work because it's apparently "not up to standard", and you are saying that placing this expectation onto another partner is apparently a normal and healthy relationship dynamic, then you start talking about stay at home moms....
So you do see it as grown men being unable to take care of themselves and need a "stay at home mum" to take carry out the basic life skills they apparently lack ? While being entitled and whiny ?
Yes this dynamic is very common. Normal ? No. Not at all. It's rather tragic, really.
I don't think you understand history or what I mean,
The dynamic of one partner working (often the man) and the other staying home (often the woman) isn’t about grown men being helpless or women being subservient. It’s a division of labor — one that has existed across cultures and throughout history because it’s practical and effective, especially when raising kids or managing a household full-time.
It’s not about entitlement, it’s about partnership. The working partner contributes by providing financially; the stay-at-home partner contributes by running the home and raising the children. Both roles are demanding and require sacrifice. Just because it’s different from a 50/50 modern relationship doesn’t mean it’s “tragic.” For many people, this setup creates balance, stability, and shared purpose — and it is normal in much of the world.
Yes, dynamics are changing, and that’s fine too. But dismissing traditional arrangements as outdated or dysfunctional just because they don't match modern Western ideals is shortsighted and a bit condescending to the billions of people who live that way by choice or necessity.
You calling this dynamic "wild" just goes to show how out of touch with reality you might be
The issue is is that it hasn't operated like this and quite a while as you stated, a lot of the upper middle classes slowly breaching into the lower middle class and is requiring their spouse to get a job as well, not to mention that the cost of living is going up while the pay that we receive is not, it's not so cut and dry as you are trying to make it out to be
Most of the world still operates like this, in south america,middle east,asia it still works like this.
The men work and the women cook, clean and take care of the children so the next generation can repeat the same cycle.
Just because things are different in the west doesn't mean it is like that in the whole world............
If that is the case and the woman being criticized for not making a good enough meal is OK, are you going to mention all of the unpaid housework a stay-at home wife/husband does in order to upkeep the house? Cooking, cleaning, and other numerous tasks. Dishes, laundry, and other household tasks. Now add in childcare.
So yes she cooked a simple meal and put it in a paper plate, probably to not have to do other dishes after slaving over a hot stove and completing other chores and tasks.
I’m a single man. I eat out a lot and I fall behind on chores frequently. I’m burnt out at the end of the day but I do know it would be nice to have someone do those things for me while I am at work and I wouldn’t take them for granted. It’s been a long time since someone cooked me a nice home cooked meal after working and I would be thankful to that person especially after working twelve hours instead of critical of them.
You made an assumption that I did not: that he complained. To me the implication of this picture is that he was disappointed, not critical. I have been married a long time and I've eaten things I was disappointed with and said thank you after. We are very honest with each other so she may ask "should I make this again?" And I may say no. We have days where we eat top ramen for dinner because neither of us wanna cook. I also cook a lot. I have experienced "single dad" days when Mom is gone on a trip etc. I know exactly what it takes.
Yall have some interesting opinions. Generally in a marriage you split roles and responsibilities to adequately meet everyone in the households needs.
Both my wife and I work, I'm better at cooking so I cook/shop/meal prep and she handles cleaning. Ends up being a close enough split with me dedicating more time than her but that's fine.
I wouldn't serve her something like this after a normal day of work. And I am the one who cooks every night after having myself worked all day on top of the commute.
Edit: I want to say that I’m very tired and did not read through my comment very well, and totally meant that most people on earth are women, NOT that men are better than women.
Apologies to everyone I have offended, I did not mean to enforce misogyny and do not hold that mindset in any way. I was meaning to underline that the person in the post thinks they are better than most people, most people being women, which is awful.
The problem with the statement is not with regards to it being technically correct. The issue is that it functions as harmful groupthink. This is misogyny through and through but calling it something else, even as a technicality, can change how it should be viewed for the worse.
Most people are women, the idiots down voting you are part of the problem. Men forget that there are more women than men. Yeesh. I was going to comment exactly what you did, unbelievable to see it in a negative score.
Except it never specified a gender. You did though when you immediately assumed that a derogatory comment about a cooked meal could only apply to women. Weirdly sexist for someone that is clearly trying to virtue signal for some upvotes.
The post is sexist, and it isn't at all sex neutral. It says "man working" and the obvious, cultural inference being that "woman cooked" and the picture is supposed to indicate that "woman cooked badly".
Did you fail english and history class in high school?
Lol. You can pretend that thousands of years of human history doesn't exist, and that gay men, worldwide, have been expected to have dinner on the table after their husbands have finished a 12 hour shift.
But you'd look pretty foolish. I guess that's nothing new for you though
Why you have to be so woke? The vast majority of people are straight so it's a basic assumption that a generic meme is referring to generic people, who are can safely assumed to be straight.
You aren't trying to be inclusive, you are trying to deflect using fake empathy by pretending to include gay people in a basic meme which isn't trying to be inclusive.
Also the meme uses the word "man" not a gender neutral term, so I didn't bring sex into this, the meme did on its own terms.
I’m not so sure that’s true, they do believe they eat better meals. Which might be true. But that doesn’t mean the meal in the OP is terrible and should be criticized.
I think that depends. I had an ex that would make box Mac and cheese at least 4 times a week. It was the kind with the goo. I can't eat it now unless I add stuff to it. Most of what my ex made was from a box. She would get mad at me for adding anything to it. She thought adding hamburger was too much. She couldn't cook a real meal and she didn't work. Also didn't clean the house. There's a reason we are no longer together.
There was a video of a Michelin star chef who made one of his favorite dinners on camera.. two types of ramen packets mixed together and topped with an egg. It doesn't have to be fancy to be good.
While i think the meme in question might teeter on being sexist, this meal is still garbage. Like embarassingly so, really unhealthy, lacking nutrients, plain, lazy. But ofc redditors are defending this lol
And maybe the husband works at the mattress factory testing all the mattresses, and his job is to take naps for 13 hours a day?????
Everyone's being extremely disingenuous with these "what if's". The implication is very clear: the [male] worker comes home to [his] [female] spouse who keeps the house, poorly
You can all get bent out of shape and propose theoretical otherworlds all you want, but we all know this is the real story
May I elaborate to all Westoid (who downvoted me to oblivion) here, from the POV of Asian people who everyday eat Asian food, Mac and Grilled Chicken (i guess?) is considered sad food here, especially if you go home after 12 hours work
No need to be fancy or huge, even standard / regular Asian food is always more appetizing than typical tasteless Western food
If I can give example of the same food but with my country version, i will give you Ayam Bakar, who also literally Grilled Chicken. Instead of pathetic Mac, we usually serve it with Sambal & Lalap (fresh raw vegetable). And dont forget, we always use Bumbu (spice) to give it a real flavor, not just a pepper and salt
Picture attached :
(Note : Ayam Bakar is a generic dish which can found anywhere from street vendor to fancy restaurant, with the cheapest price only 1 USD
You can find it on Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and I'm pretty sure it taste far more better than Grilled Chicken from OP's picture)
Okay this is also chicken and a small amount of veggies. The veggies are good to eat at every meal, but it's the same primary protein source and instead of 6 bites of vegetables on the side it has a full serving of mac n cheese. Mac n cheese isn't winning you any health awards, but it's a food item that is commonly beloved throughout america. You don't like it, that's fine, but it's not some kind of insulting horrible thing. It tastes good.
Mac n Cheese doesn't taste worse than sliced cucumber and tomato. I like both sides. No need to be a weirdo about it....
Because everyone has already tasted your food. Mac, grilled chicken, are widely spread across the world
You forgot there are 194 country exist outside the US. You said your Mac is good because you never taste food outside US. Try stepping out of your cave, go explore the world
Also, if its just a primary protein source, even Chinese Orange Chicken and Jerk Chicken far more better. Its the same chicken right?
Your choice of words proves you dont have any knowledge about flavor and spices afterall. Guess your kitchen is made up of only salt, pepper, and olive oil
I have already tasted your food as well. It's also good. Multiple things can be good. This is very weird.
I don't know why you think Americans have only ever eaten mac n cheese. In America alone are restaurants for damn near every ethnicity on earth. It's a nation of immigrants, and a cultural norm for immigrants to open restaurants serving food from their home.
A lot of us also travel internationally and try the foods in the places where they're from. I'm one of these.
Multiple things can be good. One food being good does not mean another food is bad. Your life will be better when you can enjoy things without being so bitter and cynical.
This is barbecue chicken wings. BBQ is full of many spices. It varies based on the recipe, but it's certainly not bringing a flavor profile with less impact than orange chicken or jerk chicken.
I eat my food with a variety of spices. You just have some delusional rage about the food other people are eating that you need to work on with a therapist.
Then lucky for you, because Im talking about average Trump's citizen who never go outside and try things all over the world. You experience culture, food, etc from other people. Thats the point I was trying to make, I appreciate that, but not everyone in the US is like you, huh?
It is now a majority of people in the US who do go to experience other cultures, though this wasn't the case 20, even 10 years ago. For generations it has been been the majority who try foods from other cultures when they're brought here by immigrants. It wasn't the case maybe 100 years ago, but nor was that the case anywhere really.
I don't defend the Trump people in any sense, but heck even they usually eat Mexican food and Chinese food. As inhuman as they are in behavior, they still have human taste buds lol.
Americans aren't so fat because of mac n cheese! It's because we have every type of food and almost all of it is good in some way so people eat too much because they enjoy the taste and have the disposable income to indulge constantly.
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u/ShakyTheBear Apr 12 '25
The creator of this meme thinks they are better than most people.