This has been around for a while. Nothing to do with Rumpole’s observation of his wife as “She who must be obeyed” or the current male response about who makes the decisions which goes something like “My wife decides where we live, where the kids will go to school, who our friends will be, what family car we will buy and where we will holiday, while I can choose what beer to buy and, if I have money left over, my own car”.