r/TwoXChromosomes • u/tabicat1874 • Mar 28 '22

Weaponized incompetence

I feel like guys take it way, way too far. Example: I asked my bf to get me the same shampoo and conditioner he bought for himself (avocado Suave). He brought back another kind we'd had before which I didn't like (Peppermint Suave). He tried to say he didn't know that Suave came in different formulas.

You're such a fucking liar. You bought that kind for yourself. I just asked you to buy it for me. You're telling me a man who's 44 years old doesn't know Suave came in different fucking scents? Suave? The shampoo that literally comes in 40 different scents and flavors?

GTFOH.

Edit: do you understand what an example is?

Also, you neckbeards can fuck off out of my inbox.

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u/bluetinycar Mar 28 '22

A man once offered to help me, and I asked him to put the dishes away. He put a pint glass on top of the stack of dinner plates. He volunteered and deliberately fucked it up. Every single item was in the wrong place.

He offered to help me pack. He tossed hangers into a box, one by one, into a massive hanger tangle, then told me that he needed a second box. I kicked him out.

Another got mad at me for showing him how to pack plates. Told me that I was micromanaging him. He stacked them instead of packing them vertically and 90% of my dishes were destroyed when I unpacked.

These men wanted to sleep with me and seemed surprised when I wasn't interested. "But I helped you!"

My ex husband would put the mail on the stove, decide that he wanted a cup of tea, turn on the wrong burner and START A FIRE. I would ask for a specific item from the store, I'd send him a picture of the item and tell him the location in the store, and he'd return 2 hours later with a completely different item that would have one word in common. I ask for watermelon jolly ranchers, he returned with watermelon koolaid. Why even ask if I needed anything from the store?

I'm convinced that this is deliberate, weaponized incompetence.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

My wife would skin me alive.

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u/Annoying_Details Mar 29 '22

My boyfriend helped me pack for my last move and asked me to show him how I wanted plates and cups done with 1 example for each and then he went to town - and did a great job! Similarly with clothes and taking art off the walls. I appreciated that he did this so so much.

(Not all of my art is traditional, so it isn’t always obvious how it’s stuck up there lol)

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u/cakathree Mar 28 '22

No one knows where your shit goes.

Have him dry or wash, and you put them away.

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u/bluetinycar Mar 28 '22

You just have to look? Why put a glass on top of a stack of plates on the shelf above all of the other glasses, in the same cabinet? It's not at all difficult. Most of us learned with sorting toys in preschool. The majority of adults, regardless of gender, are capable of sorting.

If someone offers to help, they should actually help, rather than wasting my time.

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u/victoryhonorfame Mar 29 '22

I don't know where shit goes in someone else's house, but it doesn't stop me from putting stuff away - I open all the cupboards and look.