What We Avoid In The “Domestic Labor” Discourse Is The Sex Part

Quiet part, out loud on all this.

The Internet loves itself some downstream TikTok analysis, and recently we’ve been handed a lot of good stuff in the “traditional vs. evolving gender roles” discussion. The big daddy of them all recently was Harrison Butker’s speech telling mostly conservative Catholic women that it’s OK to aspire to just motherhood, which was tone-deaf broadly but overanalyzed contextually:

The Harrison Butker Thing Is Mostly A Sign That We Need To Unclench Our Collective Buttocks

Within the same week or so, you had some “momfluencer” going and discussing how she doesn’t do “domestic labor” for her husband, i.e. laundry and making lunches and scheduling doctor’s appointments.

That stuff deeply triggers conservatives who want good little wives at home, so Matt Walsh came out with this: