[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I think it does play into a few unhelpful stereotypes to be honest. Not really in terms of objectification, I don't really see it as promoting "partners as possessions" (who doesn't say "your wife / husband / child"?) but...

1) It plays into the idea that home maintenance is "men's territory", or that men are likely to be the "money holder" who can arrange for it to be fixed. Your wife is cold so YOU better fix it. Poor lady is stuck cold until you take your hand off the purse strings?

2) It plays into the "happy wife happy life" rhetoric that is just really unhealthy. "If your wife isn't happy she'll make your life a misery until you sort out whatever the problem is she wants solved".

You just wish you were hot TS



but yes, good points

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

You just wish you were hot TS

To be fair I'm actually far too hot and I wish my wife would sort us out some air conditioning .

We did buy a hilarious fan though. Our bedroom one broke and it's been insufferably hot / humid so I was like "Let's get a rly good fan" so I bought a big floor fan. That arrived in a box that says "industrial floor fan".

It has three settings.

- Really high
- Far too high
- Actual tornado in your bedroom

. On the lowest setting it is awesome at keeping the room cool to be fair. Just... y'know... you can't have any loose paper lying around or anything.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

To be fair I'm actually far too hot and I wish my wife would sort us out some air conditioning .

We did buy a hilarious fan though. Our bedroom one broke and it's been insufferably hot / humid so I was like "Let's get a rly good fan" so I bought a big floor fan. That arrived in a box that says "industrial floor fan".

It has three settings.

- Really high
- Far too high
- Actual tornado in your bedroom

. On the lowest setting it is awesome at keeping the room cool to be fair. Just... y'know... you can't have any loose paper lying around or anything.

It's not very warm here at all. We missed the heat wave when we were on holidays (and there was actual air con in Italy)

[Cherry Christmas]

it would have worked fine, if there was a corresponding

you're husbands hot billboard..... that said I think advertisers do this on purpose as it creates a lot more attention than if they had gone down the non stereotypical route

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Cherie

it would have worked fine, if there was a corresponding

you're husbands hot billboard..... that said I think advertisers do this on purpose as it creates a lot more attention than if they had gone down the non stereotypical route

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