A Nigerian man identified by his Twitter handle as @Satirony is urging men to compensate their wives for the invisible labor that they do.
Couple in bed — Image by © Darren Kemper/Corbis
In his series of tweets, @Satirony explained that marriage was built to benefit men more than women.
According to him, many men are only responsible for providing financially for the home, while women, who may have a job to attend to, also ensure to take care of the home.
He advised men to observe the areas where their wives are doing more than they are and reward them for it.
Read his tweets below:
Marriage betweeen a man and woman was built in a way that benefits men far more than women. This is well studied.
If you're a man marrying a woman, you need to be cognizant of this and make sure you *overcompensate* in order to make things as egalitarian as possible.
— Gon with the wind….like Ging (@Satirony) October 8, 2019
I emphasize overcompensating because there are aspects of relationships between men and women that far more often than not result in women doing more, because we live in a patriarchal and misogynistic society.
— Gon with the wind….like Ging (@Satirony) October 8, 2019
So you need to make sure you're consciously doing more to compensate for the unseen things that she will most likely be doing.
— Gon with the wind….like Ging (@Satirony) October 8, 2019
And this is especially true in societies in which women also work outside of the home (so the past several decades in most Western societies).
— Gon with the wind….like Ging (@Satirony) October 8, 2019
And I refuse to have a dynamic that my parents, like a lot of late Baby Boomers, had.
One in which both the man and woman work outside the house, but the woman still does most of the child rearing and cleaning at home.
— Gon with the wind….like Ging (@Satirony) October 8, 2019
I know somebody is eventually gonna assume I'm saying this with ulterior motives and ask something stupid like "did she pick you?"
The answer is yes, she did. I'm married. Now go reflect on your inadequacies as a partner.
— Gon with the wind….like Ging (@Satirony) October 9, 2019