Is it because the assignment of these jobs dates to that brief time and culture when women were housewives and men worked outside the home? It’s as stereotypical as white picket fence.
I mean, mowing the lawn probably dates back to when you had to use a scythe for that. That was actually quite physically demanding labour.
Bringing out the trash might similarly originate from when trashcans were out of metal and didn’t have wheels. I can certainly imagine those being annoying to heave outside when you don’t have an excess of core strength…
Is it because the assignment of these jobs dates to that brief time and culture when women were housewives and men worked outside the home? It’s as stereotypical as white picket fence.
I mean, mowing the lawn probably dates back to when you had to use a scythe for that. That was actually quite physically demanding labour.
Bringing out the trash might similarly originate from when trashcans were out of metal and didn’t have wheels. I can certainly imagine those being annoying to heave outside when you don’t have an excess of core strength…
but this is lemmy, there’s a pantsless scyther right over there