Something I've noticed is that women want to see each other suffer under patriarchy. I'm the youngest by far at a very small office (20 years younger than the next younguer woman, 6 women in total), also the oly unmarried/ and sometimes, as they complain about their husbands not helping them, their kids playing videogames all night instead of homework, schools demanding their time as if they had no other obligations (seriously, why is the Independence Day school act at 11 AM?), having to make dinner night after night without any help from their husbands or sons (they don't have daughters so IDK if they would make them help), all without any semblance of thanks or apreciation for their tireless mothering.
And sometimes, between chatting and complaining about their families, they make an aside, and they look at me. And say "It will happen to you".
"I came home at 10 pm after work and my second job to find my husband hadn't made dinner, bathed the children or even stopped playing online for 5 minutes, and it will happen to you".
"Whenever he stubbed his toe, he acted as if he was dying and I had to care for him, and it will happen to you."
"I get up a 7AM saturdays and sundays to take them to rugby matches while he sleeps in, and it will happen to you".
They say it with relish too, as if they wanted me to suffer that way. As if it made their woes more bearable to know that it's something that they coud've never escaped, something fundamentally inherent to womanhood.