While some women have embraced gender stereotypes and taken a liking to the conservative trad wife movement, others have taken a different route, exposing everything wrong with certain societal expectations. One particular behavior embodying problematic gender norms has gained traction on social media: weaponized incompetence.
On TikTok, the term “weaponized incompetence” has nearly 75 million posts as of Wednesday (September 11). In one particular video on the social media platform, educator Laura Danger slammed what appeared to be a prank.
The prank in question consisted of a husband being asked to “wash the potatoes” by his visibly busy wife. The husband subsequently started washing the potatoes with Palmolive dish soap before asking his wife: “That Palmolive soap is good for the potatoes, right?”
