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Never realised that my wife is also providing this service for me ...
by rusticpenn 8y ago
Never realised that my wife is also providing this service for me ...
- TomMarius 8y agoMy girlfriend says she feels like my mother, careful with that
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- roadbeats 8y ago"We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need." - Tyler Durden
- jonathanstrange 8y agoAt the risk of sounding a bit picky, I've got to say that's a weird quote, though. Which generation of men has not been raised by women?
- dbspin 8y agoThe book (and film) is specifically talking about absent fathers. The next line is "Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?" It's pretty much the theme of the film: Masculinity as a desperate absence and conversely a desperate danger, in all it's facets from the comedic ("In death a member of Project Mayhem has a name") to the bathetic ("remaining men together") to the deeply sinister and violent. In a time when it is culturally deracinated and absent from so many men's childhoods.
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- andai 8y agoThe ones with fathers.
- tathougies 8y agoMy father was raised by his dad and mom. I was raised by my dad and mom. My grandfather's were raised by their fathers and mothers. So that's three generations of men not raised only by their mothers. Civilization is built upon the inclusion of men in childrearing, so ultimately all civilizations include men raised by both men and women (at least the successful ones).
- ascar 8y agoI'm totally doing that for my girlfriend for years. Never thought about it this neutral though.
- cimmanom 8y agoNow that you’re aware of it, have you talked to her about that? That’s a very common form of “emotional labor” that women find themselves responsible for, and it can be exhausting. Relevant comic: https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/ https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/
- salan781 8y agoWhy is specific to women..?
- cimmanom 8y agoIt doesn’t have to be. It’s just something that most often falls to women due to our current culture. The link explains in more detail.
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- always_good 8y agoThe comic is basically "women have harder lives when they have low standards for the man they let knock them up."
- dmix 8y agoI can't imagine walking into a kitchen then blaming my wife because of a pot of spaghetti overflowed, especially when she was busy dealing with two kids AND had her friends over. Or expect her to make dinner for me, the kids, and her friends all by herself. I also can't imagine any of the men I know would do that...which the comic describes as a 'common scenario for many parents'. That sounds like a low quality partner issue, not a gender role issue.
- mcv 8y agoWhat strikes me about the comic is that the guest is talking to the husband, while she's there for the wife. It would make a lot more sense in this situation if the husband took care of the kids while the wife took care of her guest.