Comments on: Fathers Are Parents Too

By: AndreAnna

AndreAnna — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:51:26 +0000

Don’t even get me started! LOL

As a working mother who has a flexible job to stay home three days a week, I have a taste of both worlds. I also have a husband who is as much a parent as I am and has made himself a schedule so he can be home by 230 every day. He has to fight to be defined as an equal parent and I have to fight that woman can work AND be good mothers.

I’m just so sick of the whole gender bias thing in general, men or women.

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By: SciFi Dad

SciFi Dad — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:11:49 +0000

@Dawn – I did not mean to imply that only men suffer these kinds of gender-based generalizations. However, when it comes to parenting specifically, it seems (to me, at least, as a man) that we get the lion’s share of the negative generalizations.

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By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:35:08 +0000

I only wish you were right that “nobody” says a SAHM “doesn’t work.”
Unfortunately *that* attitude is still pervasive, too. As are terms like “yummy mummy” and MILF.

SciFi Dad, I do agree with you, but women face these stereotypes, too. And no, a woman adjusting the timing belt on her car may not be called Mr. Dad, but she would face other stereotypes, perhaps being called “butch” or worse. (SOME men find women who work on their own cars hot… other men *and* women find something inherently “off” about it. Although I think the women who say mean things about these women just feel threatened by them.)

You’re right…but please don’t think it’s only men that face gender stereotype terminology.