Stupid Stereotype

It was a funny movie about a guy who wasn't raised like you. I was btw. Great flick, watched it dozens of times, quit making everything into a statement,

Microfishe! MICROFISHE!! MI...CRO...FISSHHE!!!

i can cook, clean, and clothes wash.

i just choose not to.





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Go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!

After looking over these posts, hearing all of the feminist BS rhetoric, mothers are so selfish and lazy, they don't want to actually take care of their kids, clean up after them, cook for them, etc, even a child as young as 12?? WTF is wrong with these women?? Who wants someone so selfish and lazy in their lives?

My mom refused to let me do my own laundry. She loved taking care of me. Why? Because she loved me. She wanted to make life easier for me, making it possible for me to pursue my dreams. As she said, the child and his or her future comes first.

And feminism - like the crap expressed in this film has made modern women completely useless. It feels good to accomplish things, like doing something as simple as keeping a clean house or filling your child's belly.

Hello? This movie took place in NINETY EIGHTY THREE. "Way back then" most men worked; most women stayed at home. My kids were born in 1982 and 1983; I chose to go back to work in 1984 rather than count pennies for our next meal. My actions were frowned upon by most people but I chose to have a career and give our children better lives.

I am glad you could cook, do laundry and vacuum by age 12. My husband could as well but that's because his father died suddenly and he and his siblings helped their mother when she had to return to work. For the majority of families in 1983, this was not the case.

This movie was excellent. Keaton was the breadwinner and was forced into being "Mr. Mom" when he was suddenly laid off. His wife had an opportunity to work and she seized it. The funniest scenes in the movie (using a steam iron to grill a cheese sandwich, accidentally leaving out a half opened can of beans for the baby to eat, etc.) stemmed from Keaton's inability to cope with organizing a household.

Mr. Mom is a classic. If you don't get it, then move on. There are plenty of other movies with which you may be able to relate.

I was 10 in 1983, my sister was 5 and I can vouch that my dad couldn't cook, clean, wash clothes or take care of us two kids. He would go to work and take care of the yard but he hardly ever did anything inside the house except watch TV and or fix / repair something if something broke. Most the dads of other kids I knew were the exact same. It really was much like that back then. I remember turning 20 / 21 and started to learn how to cook a lot. I was doing my own laundry since I was 13 or 14. My mom would make us clean / do chores a bit as kids too. I just didn't want to turn out like him in the helpless department when it came to lots of that stuff. He's 68 now and still has no clue how to cook something except for a can of chili which he still cooks on the stove top instead of the microwave. He eats out a lot. A stereotype is there because a lot of them are true most the time.

My father could cook, clean, and go grocery shopping. In fact he preferred doing it over my mother! But the same rule didn't apply to every father in 1983. In fact my fiancé--while he can go shopping and clean--he has no idea where the vacuum is or how to cook. Some women don't either! Regardless this movie is a comedy and not meant to be taken so literally. Jack Butler had some trouble but eventually he did catch on and he was cooking, shopping, painting fences, dropping off the kids, etc. So it's not like he was a lost cause.

-Di

"stereotype movies that show men can't cook,clean"

No , it shows that *that* man cant do those things

Just like the hilarity that ensues when a city slicker visits the countryside and cant rope a horse,
or vice versa when the bumpkin cant operate an ATM

yer basic Fish-out-of-water formula
see Crocodile Dundee for reference