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Momma said if she can’t cook, she is not the one. A lady who knows how to cook makes a home. Daddy said a man who can’t provide for his family is a boy. A man who provides brings happiness and joy, the pots and pans live in the kitchen.

Sure enough, Momma didn’t mean that a lady belongs in the kitchen. Daddy didn’t mean that all men who can provide bring happiness and joy. Some ladies are stuck in the kitchen because their men say they can’t do anything else.

Some ladies believe they belong in the kitchen as housewives, some men believe women are meant to be in the kitchen. It’s sad when ladies are fed the pots and pans. It’s sad when men hit their ladies with pots and pans in the kitchen.

Who said men can’t cook and ladies can’t provide? The pots and pans in the kitchen choose no gender! Ladies, who said men are ATMs? Men, who said ladies are objects? Gender-based abuse and financial abuse must end now!

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6 Responses

This norm of, "women clean, men work and women cook, men provide" thing is totally wrong and need to stop because, women are not given a chance to prove their power.

Mil…@m · 3 years ago

Women are not the only ones that must cook and do house chores

@cia_marshall · 3 years ago

Indeed it must end now

Chizzy · 3 years ago

I think in some households gender roles remain the same .Men are breadwinners and woman are considered only to be in the kitchen which is not right .knowdays men also be in the kitchen and woman are breadwinners I think the roles have reversed which is a good cause it's a sense of equality amongst couples .

Cutie · 3 years ago

I won't let my girlfriend suffer,we will go 50/50 even if we get married.

Diversion · 3 years ago

I think now we are living on 50/50 time we all have to help each other nobody deserve to be treated like a slave.

Evah Thembi · 3 years ago