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.”

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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