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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Act 1
A happy family, one husband, one wife and three lovely children. Child A has a holiday performance on Thursday morning and needs to wear a “green Christmas sweater, blue jeans and white sneakers” per teacher instructions. Child 2 has Christmas caroling at the old people’s home on Friday and needs a red dress and plate of cookies. Child 3 is receiving an award for a speech on Friday also, and will be needing a birthday present for friend’s party that same afternoon. Wife takes care of all of these things noiselessly, on top of regular work. She also lets husband know where to be on performance and award day.
Act 2
Husband: shows up.
Act 3
Society: why do women complain about mental labor? It’s a fiction that only exists in their hysterical imaginations and they invent tasks to do because they are hysterical.

Curtain. [/quote]

Some data for you OP

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-myth-of-the-lazy-father[/quote]

The issue I have with this in terms of what OP is saying is that the hours at work count towards work whether you spend your downtime sitting around chatting or reading school emails and responding to text messages about carpool.  Also, having to take off work for a sick child, leave early to get kids before daycare closes, not get to take that promotion because the hours don’t work for your family ARE the things that women are complaining about.  Men don’t get extra points for NOT doing those things.  
Also, these numbers just don’t add up.  If there is a child under 7 in the house, then something close to 168 hours a week should be spent on childcare.  Small children need to be supervised constantly.  Even if they are sleeping or otherwise occupied, the fact that you are responsible for the child’s well-being means that you don’t really have the opportunity to do anything else with your time.

Look.  No one is complaining that all men are lazy.  The complaint is that they prioritize themselves over their family.  Nothing in this article says this isn’t true.  [/quote]

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