@mozartpena:
I don’t think the timesharing concept is correct – especially for females. We can curl or straighten our hair while our eyes are on the tv; we can fold clothes while looking at the tv; all sorts of things like that.
I understand the original poster’s frustration – she most likely had a lot of housework, and chose something her husband could help her with that wouldn’t inconvenience him or make him grumpy. She put a pile of clothes next to him on the couch and asked him to help her by folding them while she was cleaning elsewhere.
For me – I see nothing wrong with that. Because I know how to fold different items, it takes almost no effort. I don’t have to look at the item of clothing.
So here is my answer:
There are certain skills that we know from doing them so often. It’s most likely that folding is not a skill of your husband’s – he’d spend more than half the time looking at the clothing than the television. On the other hand, if he does do a lot of folding, then he was just being lazy and selfish.