Huh? The only difference is that the genders are switched AFAICT... Maybe I would sense a difference if a stereotypically masculine task (i.e. washing the car) or a stereotypically feminine one (i.e. doing the laundry) was substituted for throwing dirty clothes into the hamper, but this is something that each spouse is supposed to do with their own clothes, so the situation is symmetrical... or what am I missing?

ETA: this is about the emotions I experience reading the two stories. I won't guess about ‘the average person’ because I'm well aware that such guesses are very unreliable.