Don't fall for that shite, babe. They do that on purpose, just like bringing their girlfriend her blue raincoat instead of her red sweater. It's faggy or pussywhipped to listen to your wife or "obey an order" (provide for a woman at her request instead of on your own whim). This sort of feigned idiocy or intentional not-listening is a way to maintain power over you.
Are we really meant to believe that men are just incapable of being detail-oriented, retaining useless information, and have poor observational skills? That must be why men are massively underrepresented in fields like engineering, model trains, TV show wiki editing, and sharpshooting.