“Unveiling the Hidden Bias: How a Viral TikTok Trend Reveals the Dark Reality of Weaponized Incompetence Against Women”
Weaponized incompetence is a passive-aggressive behavior
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Another example showed the comical man dropping a couple of dirty dishes into a sink filled with water before enthusiastically leaving the kitchen.
On the other hand, the wife went on to display what needing actual help looked like by pretending to struggle with a car’s tire, saying: “Can you help me change this tire? I have never had to do this in my life!”
To which her husband replied: “That makes total sense because I can’t either. Let’s call a mechanic!”
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According to Christina Scott, a professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Psychological Sciences at Whittier College in California, USA, weaponized incompetence is a passive-aggressive behavior where someone will pretend to be unable to successfully complete a task in the hopes that someone else will do it for them.
She explained why women, especially moms married to men, seemed to experience it the most, stating: “Gender roles encourage women to be ‘caretakers,’ and this identity can be amplified when heterosexual married women become mothers.”
Dr. Scott, whose program of research focuses primarily on women’s sexual arousal and behavior, told Bored Panda in an email: “Many women may find it easier to simply complete the necessary task, such as cooking, doing laundry, or making the bed, because it is more efficient and less stressful than standing one’s ground and having a difficult conversation about gender roles.”
