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Simply a power play by those who are threatened by seeing women’s roles are the primary caregivers to children diluted. Had it happen with my daughters while clothes shopping….”why would a man take girls clothes shopping for anything but nefarious purposes” … because they are my kids and need new clothes? As a SAHD that crap happened all too often…..add the “friends” of my wife who while SAHMs themselves Trashed me as a failure because I was no longer the primary breadwinner….. Even if I only ended up in the role due to massive cardiac issues. Many women enjoy the… Read more »
Its basically an equivalent of how women are treated when trying to climb the corporate ladder the difference being there really isn’t any sort of infrastructure in place to help men fight such a similar battle. (Largely because while its quite easy to sue a company for sexist practices how the hell do you go about holding disgruntled mothers with a sense of entitlement responsible for their ill intent and actions towards dads?) And it doesn’t help that the very discourse around gender is pretty much haunted with the starting presumption that men are at fault for whatever is going… Read more »
To a degree it comes across as protecting their racket……The secret they seem to be trying to protect is…..That staying home with the kids is easier and much more rewarding than a 9-5 job. Done both…. Staying home with the kids is the better deal.
I tend to agree. I hear way more men who did the 9-5 grind wishing they had spent more time with their family than women who were stay at home moms wishing they spent more time working away from home.
In the end it comes off off as “liberating gender people from gender roles” by giving women the choice to do what they want regardless of what men think but basing men’s choices on what woman think and approve of.