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This woman was praised for making her niece cook and clean the house for a week to prove how hard it is to do hard work and do housework.
Reddit user u/ResidentMint095 explained in post the site’s sub-forum “Am I The A******” states that her husband works two jobs and she is a housewife who does housework. Even though they are “happy with this agreement”, not everyone seems to agree with it.
The aunt said that her 20-year-old niece Jenny is staying at their house while she is in college and she strongly disagrees with their roles. Jenny believes there should be a more even distribution of household chores between the couple, even though her uncle works full-time outside the home.
“Jenny keeps talking about how my husband needs to do more housework and take care of his kids,” a Redditor user wrote. “I told her his contribution was working so I could continue to stay at home, but she wasn’t listening and told both of us it should be 50/50 with housekeeping and childcare.”
These stock images show a frustrated woman taking a break from cleaning the house and (inset) another woman suffering from a headache. A Reddit user got cheered for trying to teach his niece a lesson after she thought her uncle should do more housework by doing hard work. Studio Prostock / dragana991 / Getty Images
Such dynamics are not all that unusual, as the Pew Research Center found after analyzing data from the US Census Bureau. The figures showed that more than 11 million, or about 18 percent, of parents do not work outside the home.
The data showed that roughly 27 percent of moms stayed at home in 2016, which hasn’t changed much in the past 25 years. However, the number of fathers who stay at home has increased slightly, to 7 percent in recent years from a low of 4 percent.
Despite a Reddit user asking Jenny to “respect our dynamics,” the student went so far as to confiscate her uncle’s video game console until he started doing more housework. Seeing that asking for respect wasn’t working, the couple asked Jenny to do all the tasks she thought her uncle should do, to see how easy it really was for her.
“Some confusion has piled up and food has not been prepared for 2 of the 4 days. Jenny complained that she couldn’t do everything with her studies and work, but I told her that I didn’t want to hear it, since she expected me to be a husband to do it, ”wrote Redditor.
Licensed psychotherapist James Miller reiterated that when in someone else’s home, it’s important to respect their routine. The radio talk show host and writer said the Reddit user has no reason to justify what she and her husband have decided to do – if it works for them, then there shouldn’t be a problem.
“If someone shares their thoughts on the way you live, don’t justify your life to them. By justifying, you are trying to prove something that does not need approval.
“You know what’s good for you,” Miller said. Newsweek. “If they continue to indoctrinate you with their beliefs, set a boundary and tell them they need to stop. What works for one doesn’t necessarily work for another.”
According to Miller, having Jenny do chores was a way to hold her accountable, as she creates “unnecessary friction” in the house.
In the end, Jenny left and went to live elsewhere, but Redditor’s behavior caused fury among the family. Forcing Jenny to do housework was called “cruel and overly cruel,” prompting a frustrated aunt to seek advice on Reddit.
Since the post was published last week, it has received over 5200 upvotes and over 700 comments. Many Reddit users agreed with the poster that the problem with this situation is Jennie’s miscalculated feminism.
“She thinks she’s a feminist, but she totally missed the mark,” one person commented. “I’m also sad that my niece didn’t understand the lesson they were trying to teach her.”
Another comment on the post reads: “True equality allows people to choose what is right for them, not what someone else thinks is acceptable to them.”
Newsweek reached out to u/ResidentMint095 for comment. We were unable to verify the details of the case.
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According to leaked US government documents, China approved the provision of lethal aid to Russia for its war in Ukraine, but wanted to keep any supplies secret.
A top-secret intelligence brief dated Feb. 23 says Beijing has approved additional arms shipments to Moscow that it will disguise as civilian items. according to a Washington Post report.
The newspaper reported that the intelligence was collected by American agents who were eavesdropping on Russian intelligence communications. The Russians said the Chinese Central Military Commission wanted the shipments to remain secret.
A separate intelligence dossier among the leaked documents says that Beijing will view a “significant” Ukrainian strike by US or NATO weapons on Russian soil as an escalation of the conflict that deserves to send weapons to Russia.
The files were part of a large package of leaked classified documents that surfaced on the online Discord platform last month. On Friday, Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old document leak suspect, will stand trial in Boston. US officials have said the documents are genuine and contain very important information, although some appear to have been forged.
The leak of China’s readiness to send arms to Russia seems genuine, as shortly after the February intelligence reports, US government officials made the announcement public. Beijing strongly denied this accusation. There is no evidence that any such weapons were actually sent.
On Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said his country would not supply weapons to either side of the conflict and would also limit exports of dual-use technologies.
China will not arm parties involved in conflict in Ukraine, minister says – video
Discussing the leaked documents, President Joe Biden said on Thursday: “I don’t know of anything up-to-date that would be of great value.” However, the disclosure of intelligence data less than two months old refutes this claim.
China, like Russia, is critical of NATO and has suggested that the conflict was, at least in part, fueled by the bloc’s expansion.
Beijing says it wants to help bring a political settlement to the war. But Western leaders believe that Xi Jinping’s apparent allegiance to Vladimir Putin undermines that position.
In March, Xi visited Putin in Moscow and raised a glass to “deepening the Russia-China partnership.” Trade between the two countries has grown since the start of the war, and China sees Russia as an important ally against the US-led world order.
Xi has tried to position himself as a global statesman, and a recent Chinese-brokered deal to restore diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been cited in the Chinese media as an example of China’s positive impact on the global world. But many analysts believe that Xi’s clear support for Russia makes a China-brokered Ukraine deal impossible. Xi was expected to call Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, after visiting Moscow, but the call never came through.
On Friday, Russia’s defense ministry said its minister, Sergei Shoigu, would meet with his Chinese counterpart, Li Shangfu, on Sunday.
The Republican Party still doesn’t know how to position itself nationwide on abortion after its Dobbs success. And it’s becoming increasingly clear that in the elections it will continue to win in pushing independent voters towards the Democrats.
The Republican Party still doesn’t know how to position itself nationwide on abortion after its Dobbs success. And it’s becoming increasingly clear that in the elections it will continue to win in pushing independent voters towards the Democrats.
As Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) launches a potential 2024 campaign while traveling from Iowa to New Hampshire, he is faced with questions from reporters asking about the specifics of his stance on federal abortion policy. He declined repeatedly.
On Wednesday in Iowa, Scott declined to answer questions about whether he supported fellow South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s proposed 15-week national ban. Just hours later, on Thursday morning, Scott told a local New Hampshire news station that he would “definitely” support a 20-week ban and sign it if he became president. For his part, he has previously stated that he approves of such a measure.
“We need to have a federal limit on how far we can go, and that’s something we need to discuss,” Scott said again, avoiding details.
The extent to which Tim Scott has been reluctant to go into details about abortion as he prepares to sue evangelical voters if he chooses to run in 2024 became even clearer on Thursday afternoon when he epically dodged the question of whether he supports federal abortion. ban, talking about a recent banking hearing and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. He accused the Democrats of hypocrisy and said he disagreed with what Yellen said during the hearing about how access to abortion could help increase the black population.
“I think we’re just having the wrong conversation. I ran to the bank hearing to see if I understood her correctly,” he said. “Are you really saying that moms like mine should have an abortion so we can increase labor force participation? It just seems funny to me. So, I’m going to continue talking seriously about the issues that affect the American people. I want to start by pointing out the absolute hypocrisy of the Left on one of the most important issues.”
The full answer is wild:
This is all part of a broader struggle that Republicans will face heading into 2024 as they try to decide on abortion reporting that will appeal to a national audience. Not only are the polls still strong, showing that most Americans believe abortion should be legal, Democrats have repeatedly won elections in recent months, putting the issue of access to abortion in the spotlight, from discontent with the Democratic Senate to gaining control over Wisconsin. Supreme Court last week.
As my colleague Josh Marshall so eloquently unpacks here, access to abortion is now acting as an “electoral divide” and the Republicans’ desperate inability to plant their flag in a less extreme place is increasingly on display.
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