You ask your partner to unload the dishwasher, and they somehow manage to put the glasses in the wrong cabinet every single time. Or they offer to do laundry but shrink your favorite sweater because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weaponized incompetence is when someone pretends to be "bad" at a task or performs it poorly to avoid responsibility and shift it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weaponized incompetence is when someone deliberately performs a task poorly to avoid doing it again. It happens in relationships, ...

Your browser does not support the video element. Your browser does not support the video element. Mila had been dating her boyfriend for a year when she got pregnant ...

A relatively newer term, weaponized incompetence has gotten a lot of attention over the past few years. My students love to discuss it, especially in the context of gender, as it most often points to ...

My eighth-grade home economics class taught me that chores get done faster when you work in pairs. One person scrubs the dishes while the other dries and puts them away. So, imagine if your ...

So, when we wrote a post where married women shared the wildest examples of weaponized incompetence they've witnessed from their own husbands, it prompted even more married and divorced women to share ...