{"id":3383,"date":"2023-12-09T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T07:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2023-12-09T23:46:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T07:46:46","slug":"on-weaponized-incompetence-and-weaponized-faultfinding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/on-weaponized-incompetence-and-weaponized-faultfinding","title":{"rendered":"On weaponized incompetence and weaponized faultfinding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I suck at cooking. I\u2019ve always sucked at cooking. I never learned to cook growing up, then at 19 I started a relationship with a woman for whom cooking was her love language, her way of feeling needed, and her sense of identity all rolled into one, so I was forbidden\u2014in a literal, not a metaphorical sense\u2014from cooking. For the eighteen years we were together, the kitchen was her domain. She would frequently tell me, in a ha-ha-only-serious way, that I was not allowed foot in the kitchen except by special travel dispensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t come here to talk about cooking, except that I totally came here to talk about cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s back up. I\u2019ve spent the last week in Florida helping to care for my mom, who is in the last stages of terminal cancer. My sister flew into town earlier this week. It\u2019s a bit jarring, the four of us being back in the house we lived in since the 1980s, back in my high school days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I look now at this house, these people, with eyes grown far more experience over the past three and a half decades, I\u2019m finding myself thinking about how I grew up, and the forces that shaped me into the person I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My parents come from the \u201cSilent Generation,\u201d the generation between WWII\u2019s Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers. (IMy sister and I are leading-edge of Gen Xers). My parents\u2019 generation didn\u2019t leave much of a mark on society\u2014certainly not as much as the Boomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of folks call my parents\u2019 generation the Traditionalists. Coming back here, to this house, I can see why. A lot of folks call theirs the Traditionalist Generation; they missed the Depression and the world wars, but both those things were still close enough to be very real to them, so theiy turned inward, looking for safety in tradition. My parents were, and are, all about the traditional gender roles: for my entire life, my mom cooked and cleaned and generally maintained the house, even when she worked, and my dad virtually defined himself by his job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My sister and I, well… Neither of us turned out conventional. She’s a lwayer who\u2019s never married, and of course I went down a rather unconventional path in a lot of ways. But we were raised in an environment of gender roles and expectations so pervasive they became the air we breathed. I never learned to cook, she never learned to maintain a lawnmower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image: Tim Mossholder<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward a while, and here I am, a newly-divorced 37-year-old man who can\u2019t cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might say that a 37-year-old man who can\u2019t cook is rather pathetic, someone who\u2019s on a fundamental level failed to master the most basic skills any adult should have, but if you did, I\u2019d reply that, given my history and upbringing, you were…absolutely right. It is a sad and strange place to have a gap in one\u2019s basic adulting skills the size of a Buick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I\u2019ve been thinking, a lot, about how that came to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thee\u2019s a thing that can happen in relationships (and offices and pretty much anywhere else) called \u201cweaponized incompetence.\u201d It started out as a business idea\u2014the guy who invented the phrase used it to describe people in a corporation shirking office duties by pretending they couldn\u2019t do them, so their boss would assign someone else\u2014but it absolutely happens in romantic relationships as well. It\u2019s a specific, pernicious kind of passive-aggressiveness, a way of wriggling out of things you don\u2019t want to do. Botch a job badly enough, often enough, and someone else may take over the job for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here\u2019s the thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New skills do not spring fully-formed from the head of Zeus. It takes time, and frequent failure, to master them (I\u2019m painfully aware of that; I\u2019m in the process of teaching myself CNC machining right now, which is turning out to be way<\/em> harder than I expected. You\u2019d be surprised how many tools I\u2019ve broken and how much scrap metal I\u2019ve made.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooking is…well, not as hard as CNC machining, but harder to pick up than folks who\u2019ve been doing it since childhood likely temember. It took me an embarrassingly long time to be able to cook broccoli, and I heckin\u2019 love<\/em> broccoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beware the fail broccoli. (Image: Kaspars Grinvalds<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This wasn\u2019t weaponzed incompetence. I live alone right now, having newly embraced a solo poly identity, and even with nobody else to take on the task, I\u2019m still<\/em> a mediocre cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a flip side of weaponized incompetence. It\u2019s a thing where a person claims they want another person to learn a skill, but absolutely won\u2019t tolerate any of the mistakes and failures along the path to mastery. I\u2019m still searching for the words to put to it, because I haven\u2019t seen a lot of converation about it. (I talked to my wife Joreth about it earlier this evening; she suggested \u201cmalicious perfectionism,\u201d but that\u2019s not quiiiite right…most people think of perfectionism as something you apply to yourself, not other people. \u201cWeaponized faultfinding,\u201d maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s what happens when you say \u201cI want you to have this skill,\u201d but then couple it with \u201c…and I am unwilling to tolerate making any mistakes to acquire the skill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s absolutely, totally 100% a power move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It gives you a lot<\/em> of power over someone. It simultaneously gives you whatever power comes with having that skill, and<\/em> the perceived moral high ground (\u201clook at me, forced into this job because my partner just can\u2019t do it<\/em>, can you believe<\/em> it?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing is, it\u2019s completely reasonable to say \u201cLook, this is a basic adult thing. You\u2019re a grown person, I shouldn\u2019t have to teach you this. You need to learn this skill.\u201d Yep, you\u2019re absolutely right, no argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you cannot, you cannot<\/em>, couple it with \u201c\u2026and I will not tolerate you making any mistakes while you learn how to do it.\u201d At that point, it becomes manipulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a subtle manipulation, one that a lot of folks probably won\u2019t spot…hell, one I myself didn\u2019t spot for more than a decade, until someone outside that particular situation pointed out to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And honestly, I had it pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like, seriously, there are a lot<\/em> of folks who grow up without learning basic adulting skills. A lot<\/em>. And the definition of \u201cbasic adulting skills\u201d changes with every generation anyway\u2014how many Gen Z folks know how to balance a checkbook, or even know what an actual physical \u201ccheckbook\u201d is?\u2014so it\u2019s going to be that way forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If oyu come from a privileged background of wealth, where you grow up in famous households with servants, you might not even have basic adulting skills like, oh, I don\u2019t know, emotional regulation<\/em>. And you very well might, as you struggle and make mistakes, end up with those mistakes on the cover of People<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t envy Britney Spears of Miley Cyrus, not one bit. When I burned the dinner, I had a lover who took that as an opportunity to exercise control over me while also being able to complain about the burden of taking control over me and not letting me keep trying to get the skill; win-win-win! But at least it didn\u2019t end up as a smug media talk piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tl;dr: There will be times in your life where you likely run up against some basic skill you don\u2019t have but you really ought to. There will likely be a time in oyur life you have a lover who doesn\u2019t have a skill you really think they ought to. It happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This situation is absolutely ripe for manipulation and control, on both sides. A ton of ink has been spilled on weaponized incompetence, but someone who wants an unhealthy power advantage in a relationship can take it, unearned, by simply demanding that their partner learn the skill but then being intolerant of failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People learning new tings, screw them up. If you want your partner to know how to cook\u2014with is absolutely a reasonable thing\u2014you have to be able to accept that sometimes they\u2019re gonna burn the broccoli. If it\u2019s not okay to burn the broccoli, you\u2019re really saying it\u2019s not okay for them to learn…and that gives you a dangerous kind of control. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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