Men Need To Raise The Fucking Bar A Bit

Katy Perry, useless toddler husbands, and how you show love and respect in a relationship.

I stole the image for this post from here, if you’re interested in watching the video (it’s good):

Now, also online this past week — the video above is about a year old, so not this past week — Katy Perry went on Call Her Daddy and discussed a bunch of different stuff. Some was actually nuanced, like dating insecure men. But the clip that predictably got the most attention was her saying that, if Orlando Bloom (the father of her kid) unloads the dishwasher, she blows him. Nice. Here’s the clip:

There are no doubt a few things to unpack here, with (1) probably being: “Does Orlando Bloom, a star of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, actively unload his own dishwasher?” A bunch of people were asking that one, and it’s probably a good place to start.

Where I would then go is this: why is the bar so low for men? It takes about 1 minute to unload a dishwasher, and maybe three minutes for a full dishwasher. (If that.) That is enough “domestic service” that you “deserve” a blowjob? That seems like a relatively low bar. I would say maybe the bar for blowjob could be: