WomensStuff

This is pretty interesting, maybe a good example at how patriarchy victimizes men as well as women. Here you are, a man proud of his housework and who is offended at the notion that men wouldn't be expected to engage in housework - but in a surreal twist, you're arguing with the women who are offended by the same exact thing.

Also, I don't know where you live, but in most of the Western world (and probably this is worse elsewhere) I think there is an expectation (even though it is sometimes implicit) that women belong in the kitchen doing housework and so on, and that men should be at work. Those attitudes are changing, but there is still a sense that men who do women's work are virtuous for being so egalitarian and progressive.

This can also come up with dads, e.g. a dad is in a grocery store with his kids and people might tell him "oh, aren't you such an amazing father", but it would be unusual for someone to say the same thing to a woman with her kids in the grocery store. There's just a thought that men are exceptional if they do women's work.

That housework is not perceived as women's work and men aren't seen as exceptional for doing women's work where you live seems unlikely or unusual to me (where in the world would this be true, Iceland maybe?) - but I'm not going to deny your experience, and I'm wrong all the time.

Still, I don't think I'm wrong about the majority of places and societies in this case, and the meme still stands in those contexts (even if it might not in yours).

Hopefully this helps clarify?