I jumped into a big mess on facebook a while back...my sister had posted something about how mad she was at her boyfriend, because she was trying so hard to keep the house clean and blah blah blah, and he would go through the place, trying to find his tools or whatever, and totally destroy the whole place in the process.
The big mess part came in when a whole bunch of other women on her friends list chimed in, also complaining about how awful men are to do that, how their guy does the same thing, how he never puts his stuff away or cleans up behind himself when he is looking for stuff, how men are just incapable of doing anything helpful, pretty much.
At first, I kind of wanted to laugh- I mean, my husband has done the same thing to me. One time he went through a whole room searching for something of his, and not a single thing got put away again. I was pretty angry about it. But you know WHY he had to go searching in the first place?
Because I moved the item to a different spot than the one he had put it in, because I didn't like it being out where it was.
So I stepped into this rant on facebook, and said something along the lines of, "I think men do this because we women won't let them leave their stuff where they want it. As in, they put their stuff in a certain spot, say, maybe on a shelf in the living room. We notice it there and are like, 'Huh, that doesn't look very pretty, does it? Let's just go put this away...' and then when the poor guy needs whatever it was, it's not where he left it. So what is the point, he asks himself, of putting anything away, if she is just going to relocate it anyway?"
A couple of the women who had been all riled up got really angry and were saying stuff like, "Well, if he would just ____! Then I wouldn't HAVE to do that!" But there were others who laughed at themselves and said that YES, they do that to their husband/boyfriend, and that maybe they should let the guy act like, you know, he LIVES THERE TOO...