Proto-feminist, or just fucking nuts?

The latest in my series of Conversations I've Overheard That I Hope Made More Sense in Context. A very well dressed, extremely well spoken elderly gentleman sitting with a younger woman in a cafe;

"Of course, in my entire married life I never let my wife wash my socks or underpants...

So far so good

...I used to wear them in the shower and wash them that way"

There it is.