Housekeeping for Bros (For Everyone)

Seeking to fight toxic masculinity and the old saw of "man lore" whereby men teach other men to fuck up housekeeping so they won't be asked to help again, we seek to provide practical housekeeping tips, and get men to contribute, by teaching them how. (Others too!)

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    Malcolm Gin
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  • Inspired by getting back into the swing of contributing to the household, and being the housebound unemployed partner in a long term relationship in my old family home, a lot of my thoughts and efforts revolve around fighting the inevitable slide into chaos that is any modern home. I wish I could say we were the modern minimalist types. We wage a steady war against clutter. We like jigsaw puzzles and making nests of papers that build up faster than we can process through them and file them away or shred and get rid of them.

    I've been doing a fair amount of kitchen cleaning, some cooking, menu planning, grocery list compiling and shopping. I have never driven, so it's a walk to the nearby (and fortunately, fantastic) grocery store, and a carry back of what I can carry, supplemented with grocery delivery and what my partner has time to do. We interleave efforts and still occasionally get tetchy with each other. But part of the journey, part of parntership, is still being there.

    And I know from TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, and the young people in my life that a lot of discontented men, young and old, expect or demand their partners to bear the whole burden of doing these kinds of housekeeping tasks. Certainly some of it is simply not having the will to do it, but some of it is not having learned the right skills, tips, and methods to make housekeeping easier and more efficient.

    So this project will mix blogging, social media, and probably video content (or a podcast?) to provide feminism-informed advice-giving, tips-gathering, and political-opinionating on all things housekeeping, as well as methods to get into the swing of collaborative housekeeping with housemates, partners, friends, or whomever one may share a domicile with.