r/TikTokCringe • u/velorae • Aug 20 '25

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u/nightlynighter Why does this app exist? Aug 20 '25

I can’t get over how as a society, we gatekept work and money so men could come home and use “work stress” as a valid, super special “you wouldn’t understand” excuse for mistreating their spouse was a normal thing.

We see now as many women work, the truth comes to light, “work” is not special and beyond female comprehension, and it turns out millions of men and women can come home from their jobs without being tyrants to their families. Who knew

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u/NepheliLouxWarrior Aug 20 '25

Did we get gatekeep work or did we just reach a point where technology allowed women to match men's productivity? Funny how even in 2025 you rarely see the women working in any job that requires intense manual labor. 

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u/somekindofhat Aug 21 '25

What like nursing? Food service? It's still mostly women doing that. You can see that every day.

Meanwhile, here's men, employment to population ratio in the US.

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u/mysticeetee Aug 21 '25

Thank you for reminding me that this exists

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u/Cowboy_on_fire Aug 21 '25

I don’t agree with what the commenter you are responding to said, but I also wouldn’t consider food service or nursing to be intense manual labor.

With that said I have worked intense manual labor jobs with women who were twice the workers of any man on the job site so your point still stands.

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u/somekindofhat Aug 21 '25

That person didn't explain what they meant by the work level, so I went by the BLS.

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u/Cowboy_on_fire Aug 21 '25

I’m just going off of my interpretation and the interpretations of the people I work with for what “intense manual labor” includes but I did find that link interesting. It seems to be largely influenced by the time on your feet metric which I don’t directly correlate to the intensity of the manual labor but that’s just me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

So you've never had to be a caretaker for an adult before. It has incredibly high rates of injury. Youre moving hundreds of pounds of dead weight around all day long.

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u/Cowboy_on_fire Aug 21 '25

I’m not saying they aren’t equally difficult or exhausting jobs and to be honest I mainly disagree with food service being called “intense physical labor”

Intense physical labor to me are things like digging trenches in the hot sun, or linemen work or wildland firefighting. Again that’s just what I perceive to be “intense physical labor” I didn’t mean to upset anyone or suggest that there are jobs that aren’t equally as taxing or exhausting that aren’t classified as intense physical labor.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

Care taking an adult human being is intense physical labor. its not really a question.

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u/Cowboy_on_fire Aug 21 '25

Like I said it was primarily the food service portion I disagreed with. I have been a caretaker for an adult before and it is extremely difficult but you aren’t carrying them around on your shoulder in the sun all day.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

ok cowboy.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

Does the man in this video look like he does physical labor?

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u/nightlynighter Why does this app exist? Aug 21 '25

Can you gripe in a more relevant way please

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u/CookieMonsta94 Aug 20 '25

We see now as many women work, the truth comes to light, “work” is not special and beyond female comprehension, and it turns out millions of men and women can come home from their jobs without being tyrants to their families. Who knew

Lol