Playing house
If you’re a mum…
ITV News run a piece on the Thames Water crisis featuring a brief comment by a man describing rising water bills as being "tough if you're a mum like me".
In the clip he's shown washing the dishes/doing the laundry, because clearly…that's what mums do🙄https://t.co/S1JpsFVKpU pic.twitter.com/1nGP3Gk2KU
— gender is harmful (@genderisharmful) June 29, 2023
I don’t think anyone is a mum like him.
Comes off as a MPFC skit.
He’s got quite a ways to go to inhabit the barefoot and pregnant stereotype, but he’s on the right track.
[…] saw the pretend mother in the ITV News item several hours ago. Some hours before that Rosie Duffield commented on the pretend […]
People on Twitter have pointed out that a) he appears to be washing a breast pump in the sink and b) his little ‘doing the laundry’ skit is ridiculous; he’s carrying a tiny plastic tub with about three small items of clothing in it rather than an actual laundry basket. Weird. The closer you look, the more bizarre the segment seems.