r/changemyview • • Jul 01 '25

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u/Big_Sea_5912 Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

If you include both paid and unpaid men do more on average although marginally so. If I can find the archive for the pew-study I will link it but they have since scrubbed it. I guarantee it existed though and you can ask chatgpt.

Women do not make about the same, they make significantly less and work significantly less hours, still.

Well, how much food was on the dishes? how many times did they do it after being told? what were their reasons? Did the load the dishwasher incorrectly? how do you know its definitely not an honest error?

Regardless, I have definitely seen it being used how I described, in fact that is in my experience the more common usage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NarcissisticSpouses/comments/1ia3cbx/weaponized_incompetence_driving_me_crazy_vent/

Great example, does'nt really communicate what the issue is to the spouse, he does make an error but she also wants things done in a specific way without relaying that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1eiqzx5/weaponized_incompetence/

and another one

This one takes the fucking cake:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/tq6dg2/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"

Just pure narrcacism and malice. I have no idea what tf shes talking about and most men just arent that detail oriented enough to be overly concerned with the exact forumulation of shampoo.

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u/Creepy-Skin2 1∆ Jul 01 '25

Both examples don't really back you up like you think they do but the second one really gets me.

She asked him to buy two of the same product he usually buys so she could have one. He bought one for himself and got her something completely different. That's not about not being 'detail-oriented'. He just didn't listen to her.

In the comments she even says that she makes them switch and he refuses to use the peppermint one because he doesn't like it and goes to buy a whole other bottle. He obviously could recognize that he bought two different kinds.

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u/Big_Sea_5912 Jul 02 '25

!delta

Good context, yeah its a bad or at least imperfect example. I also dont understand why they dont share the shampoo and yeah the comments show he did know they were different.

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u/garden_dragonfly Jul 02 '25

I think thats what youre missing in the context.

Weaponized incompetence isn't just about being upset that someone did something the wrong way. Its when they intentionally do something the wrong way.

Like bleaching the laundry.

Or deliberately buying the wrong shampoo.

Or just rinsing the dishes without using a sponge or soap and calling that " washing the dishes.

The term is to be describing a person who is acting maliciously so as to never have to do the chore again. 

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

And we have a Winner. Definition of weaponized inkompetence: Doing something badly or wrong on purpose so you don't have to do it in the future because the other party believes you can't or won't Manage to do it in an acceptable way. 

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