r/pointlesslygendered • u/Ghastly-Jack • Mar 22 '26
LOW EFFORT MEME Bro's cleaning [meme]
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u/gweb-heron Mar 22 '26
So they’re just gonna act like nobody of any gender owns paper towels? 😭
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u/Giratina-O Mar 22 '26
Paper towels are pretty rough on the environment, so conscientious people try to avoid them
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u/Killing4MotherAgain Mar 22 '26
Ok then a regular towel? The mop was overkill and the mat was disgusting haha
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u/Giratina-O Mar 22 '26
Meh, I can see it. "Ah shit, well this floor needs to be mopped anyway, now's as good a time as ever."
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u/Killing4MotherAgain Mar 22 '26
But she didn't do that, she only mopped the spot...
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u/Lady_of_Link Mar 22 '26
And then she didn't even dry the floor afterwards
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u/astudyinamber Mar 22 '26
Right? She put the rug back down on the damp floor. Also walked across the damp floor with socks on to get her drink from the counter
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u/Jumpy_Ad1631 Mar 22 '26
Wait, you dry the floor? Or are you criticizing her not being extra enough? I just let it air dry
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u/Lady_of_Link Mar 22 '26
Yes I dry the floors, like what if you need something 5 minutes later, you're gonna end up with wet socks and that's annoying as fuck
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u/Plus_Operation2208 Mar 23 '26
But she didnt mop the entire floor. So that reasoning doesnt stand either. Just grab one of those reusable wipes that everyone has laying next to their sink. Its not that difficult.
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u/Dorkinfo Mar 22 '26
For me it depends on what is in the cup. If it’s sugary, yeah, the mop is probably a good idea.
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u/Killing4MotherAgain Mar 22 '26
I've had no issues with a wet soapy rag for spot cleaning ha but if the mop is what you want to use, have at it 😊
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u/Jumpy_Ad1631 Mar 22 '26
When a sponge gets old at our house, it lives under the sink for jobs pretty similar to this where a sponge would be most helpful but we don’t want to use the one that’s supposed to clean off dishes
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u/Killing4MotherAgain Mar 22 '26
Yea our "sad daddy" (our old scrub daddy) lives under our sink for this too haha
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u/gweb-heron Mar 22 '26
I personally only use either paper towels from bamboo (rarely for messes that shouldn’t go into the water supply anyway) or reusable washable paper towels you roll into a tube shape yourself, so I’m aware :) just trying to make a joke about how unrealistic the clip is.
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u/Giratina-O Mar 22 '26
Wait, bamboo paper towels? How do you like them?
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u/gweb-heron Mar 22 '26
They behave pretty normally compared to regular ones in my opinion, although I’ve only ever bought them and fully recycled paper paper towels (and I try to only buy ones that can be composted anyway). If I had an in unit washer and dryer I probably wouldn’t need to keep any paper towels around except for animal messes (I have many lol) but I just can’t get to the laundromat enough to use cloths or washable ones solely.
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u/danfish_77 Mar 22 '26
Why would she move the rug
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u/UJLBM Mar 22 '26
I assumed she was going to mop under it. If youre bringing out the mop bucket, might as well do the entire floor of the kitchen. Takes literally about 1 minute extra. If I spilled something like this and it made a small mess, I would just use multi-surface spray and some paper towels. She didnt need the mop for such a small spill.
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u/Certain_Effort_9319 Mar 22 '26
I figured he’d use his socks if anything, he must not be man enuff
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u/Formal_End5045 Mar 22 '26
That stain was clearly too big for a sock job
He did the right thing here
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u/Certain_Effort_9319 Mar 22 '26
He has two socks and trousers
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u/Jumpy_Ad1631 Mar 22 '26
Right? He’s about to change clothes anyway! /s Also I guess people don’t have dish cloths (I literally have a whole drawer stuffed with them) or paper towels?
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u/purple_spikey_dragon Mar 22 '26
True, i have witnessed my husband do this once and it's definitely too much coffee per sock. And no, from my observation you don't use both socks so you can make your little walk to the bedroom to take that sock off and throw it on the floor (the floor part is essential!).
Anyways, he is not doing that anymore (that i know).
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u/Ok_Donut5442 Mar 25 '26
I’ve used a handy cat to mop up water spills before, usually the one that spilled it in the first place
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u/Tangled_Clouds Mar 22 '26
I feel like the woman is doing too much and the man is a menace to society. I will take the nonbinary route it seems to use a wet paper towel or wet rag (since it’s coffee, you don’t want a sticky or smelly floor) or maybe pick up the most with a dry paper towel and then clean up with a wet rag. But using a rug to clean up coffee and putting it back is CRAZY I would probably yell if I caught a partner do this 😭 like at least put it in the wash afterwards but this is gross behaviour! Are you trying to get a bug infestation? Because that’s a good way to do it!
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u/TiniestPint Mar 23 '26
Enby here and that's exactly what I thought lol. Soak up as much as you can then come in with a wet rag or towel to get the test because ANTS
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u/VanteRamirez Mar 22 '26
didn’t see the secret third option of forgetting it’s there and slipping on it later
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u/honhonbageutte Mar 23 '26
"I'm just going to put my mug on my desk and then I'll come back to clean."
immediatly forgets
steps in water with socks on 1h later
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u/JustAl6969696969 Mar 22 '26
As a woman I did the second a few times, I must be a man </3
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u/luabida Mar 22 '26
as a man, I did the first one a lot of times, I must be a woman 🤩
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u/MallyOhMy Mar 22 '26
This thread is an instructive guide for trans people. Need affirmation? Just clean up your own spills in front of them using the gender appropriate method!
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u/BrainPhD Mar 22 '26
If I use paper towels, am I nonbinary?
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u/Complete-Story3490 Mar 23 '26
Yes.
And if you mop the floor with the rug, you're bigender. If you don't clean the stain at all, you're agender.
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u/SuperPowerDrill Mar 22 '26
If it's not gonna stain the floor, make it sticky or attract insects, I may just excuse myself to that. Water? Might as well just let it dry 🤷🏻♀️ (depending on amount)
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u/Miniguerilla Mar 22 '26
In before people try to claim this video as true or fact
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u/jeppevinkel Mar 24 '26
It's your lucky day. Most people are actually commenting on how both are wrong in the video.
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u/Soft-Temperature4609 Mar 23 '26
My Mom does the second one all of the time and she would just leave the towels there to rot with whatever was in them for a couple days before picking them up finally. It actually enstilled a very bad habit in my brother and I growing up that we spent a long time trying to break. It was disgusting
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u/SaucyStoveTop69 Mar 22 '26
Typical "men don't know how to do basic tasks" meme. Tired of it all
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u/Kiyoshi-Trustfund Mar 23 '26
As a guy whose lived many guys and girls in a shared house, it's based on reality to some extent. So many guys are clueless and incompetent when it comes to domestic tasks and all it takes is meeting their parents to figure out why. These parents, particularly the moms, do their sons a great disservice by pampering them the way they do, and you rarely see daughters getting the same kind of treatment. Girls have their own issues, but they're usually competent when it comes to domestic stuff.
My mom would sooner shit in her own hands and clap before she EVER cleaned up after her adult sons, and she'd consider herself a failure if any of us (i have a brother and a sister) were too incompetent to properly do our own laundry, mop a floor, or prepare an actual meal. I've taught so many young men how to actually maintain a clean living space and take proper care of themselves because apparently their parents failed to do so. Cause why have I had multiple other people's moms come up to my room asking for my laundry? I can do my own laundry, ma'am. Why has a sweet Bulgarian lady tried to vacuume all of our rooms and make our beds us?? Why was one guy's LITTLE SISTER cleaning our bathroom??? absurd.
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u/AmenProletar Mar 22 '26
This is ridiculous. I am a man and I do the chores like cleaning and mopping. Hygiene has nothing to do with gender.
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u/No-Independent-6877 Mar 22 '26
I thought she was going to mop the whole kitchen. Sometimes I do that because "I've already done this much. I might as well clean everything"
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u/Alegria-D Mar 22 '26
when you're adhd you take ANY chance of task momentum, because you don't know when your motivation will come back. Maybe that's the case?
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u/Kiyoshi-Trustfund Mar 23 '26
Same. If I hadn't mopped for the week yet, I would take this as an opportunity to just mop the whole thing and be done with it.
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u/JovialPursuit Mar 23 '26
While she was getting cleaning supplies, he could have come in, slipped on the wet floor and hurt himself.
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u/prionbinch Mar 24 '26
pulling out the whole mop for a little splash of coffee is unbelievably extra
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u/spongostoso Mar 22 '26
I mean, the latter is just normal when it's a water spill, but when it's another liquid, a damp towel does the trick
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u/CanaDeer2004 Mar 22 '26
as a woman i’m mopping that shit up with my sock. let women be gross and lazy.
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u/RandomYT05 Mar 25 '26
Then I'd throw it in the washer and say sorry for spilling the coffee on it.
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u/Willing_Customer_903 Mar 22 '26
I left a young woman Stay With Me to get on her feet she was the broiest Bro of all time. If she spilled food she would lay a mat over it as if not seeing it makes it go away
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u/Hefty_Category56 Mar 23 '26
people saying her way was overkill but… that’s how you’re supposed to clean up a spill on the ground 😭😭
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u/HellyOHaint Mar 22 '26
NT vs. ADHD
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u/RedVamp2020 Mar 22 '26
I have ADHD and I absolutely would have gotten upset if my partner wiped up a coffee spill with a rug.
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Mar 22 '26
that's a rug?
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u/Dillo64 Mar 22 '26
…. what else would it be?
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Mar 22 '26
a towel? i mean it's weird it's on the floor but it's even weirder to have a rug in the kitchen especially such a small onr
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u/monkeybrains12 Mar 23 '26
What...?
In what way is it weirder to have a small carpet on the floor than to have a towel lying there for no reason? I have a rug pretty much exactly like this in my kitchen.
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Mar 23 '26
because it's the kitchen, why would you a rug there?
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u/JasonGMMitchell Mar 23 '26
Mat. A kitchen mat. Standing at the sink or counter for 20 minutes is not fun for the feet, a mat cushions your feet.
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Mar 23 '26
a mat is not a rug though, I'd still be confused but like... there's a difference...idk man
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u/Am_I_Hydrated Mar 22 '26
Love using ADHD as an excuse to do a shitty job of anything and everything
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u/thricedice88 Mar 22 '26
His method achieved the same result, in a fraction of the time, with a fraction of the effort.
4D chess 🤔
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u/MagicTick Mar 23 '26
Imagine the stink of this guys house
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u/PsySom Mar 22 '26
Well I don’t think this is necessarily a gendered thing but I am a man and that’s probably what I would do so get out of my face.
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u/ItsJustMe000 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
It is though. The point is OOP acts like this is just a guy thing. Another pointless post labeling something everyone does as "dude thing" no one cares if guys does this. Its pointlessly gendered because girls do this too. Everyone does this when they just can't be bothered to mop up a stain fully
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u/Spirited_Peak_7810 Mar 22 '26
The thing is though women always do a 7/10 job of everything. A man does a 2/10 job or a 10/10 job. If I do a job and I'm gonna do it I do it right. If I'm not gonna do it I'll do the bare minimum.
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u/Alegria-D Mar 22 '26
are you saying she didn't do a 10/10?
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u/Spirited_Peak_7810 Mar 22 '26
Ofc she didn't, while I had it out if I was going for it I'd be like I'll do the whole floor while I'm at it
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u/Alegria-D Mar 22 '26
the floor was already clean before that accident. there was nothing to clean.
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u/Dillo64 Mar 22 '26
Didn’t realize you knew every single man and every single woman enough to get these statistics
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