Maybe it doesn't register so much for me because the husband DOES take the kids places without me, so I don't think it so odd when I see "other women's husbands" taking their kids out, i.e., normal for me, normal for everyone?

I actually see men behave like asses instead of taking responsibility: they play helpless around their kids (forgetting diapers, not seeing that their kid wanders off, not cleaning its face when snot runs etc.), and then their girlfriends take charge because someone has to take care of the kid. My brother does it, and…

That is absolutely not true. I see plenty of men with prams and young children and nobody bats an eye. Maybe it happens on occasion in parks or something but it is not something the average dad needs to worry about.

Oh! I want to tell you the cutest story you just reminded me of. I was at the mall like a month or so ago, and as I walk out of a store I fall into step with some kid about 20 who looks like Justin Beiber: oversized crooked trucker hat, skinny jeans, sunglasses indoors, the whole thing. And this dude is pushing the…

Usually when I see a guy at a park with a child (or two), my first thought isn't FUCKING PIG PEDOPHILE, it's, "Oh, that guy took his kids to the park"...that's if he even registers at all.

Where I live in the states... this might be true for, say, preschool teachers. But dads out playing with their kids? Oh heck no, they get all the covetous, lustful mom eyes. The stay-at-home dad in the play group gets hit on and flirted with by moms all the time.

Nice try. You didn't intend to reinforce patriarchy? You still did. It's hypocritical. Be a little more self-critical.

Uh, don't be an idiot. You called them unmasculine and belittled them for "crying." Are you really going to pretend that that somehow doesn't count as reinforcing really damaging patriarchal values? It's really not hard to come up with actual arguments against these people. It's not acceptable to stoop to their level…

It is?? By actual people or frustrated testicles?

So "they did it first?" That's a really poor excuse. There's no shortage of flaws in MRA thinking, so there's no need to reinforce patriarchal ideas about masculinity in order to criticize them. It's totally hypocritical, and it's wrong.

Meh, I think it applies IN PARTICULAR because they claim feminists are the ones constantly whining and playing the victim over nothing, when they do it quite thoroughly themselves.

Unfortunately, what you just said was super sexist! Try again. MRAs are not bad because they show emotion and don't perform masculinity in the way you think they should. They're bad because they're misogynist shitheads.

I'm as top heavy as a silverback gorilla with a tiny little ass. Somehow I can sit in a seat like a human.

This short non-male commenter is extremely jealous of your height.

My dad was 6'5" and 400lbs and he managed to sit cross legged. You are not a special snowflake.

I need to air my vagina. So I'll sit with my legs wide open too, taking up 4 fucking seats. If anyone complains, it's biology. I need to ventilate between my legs, because yeast. Or something.

It's not comfortable to stuff my G cups into a bra on hot humid days. But somehow I survive. Are men so weak that they can't abide a little discomfort for the sake of basic etiquette?

If drag queens can tuck, men are physically capable of not sitting spread eagle.

My balls fit in a guy's mouth on the regular. They don't need that much room.

My husband always crosses his legs and I think it's so old school elegant. I thought he did it as an affectation or something, now I know it is to keep his balls comfortable, lol. I really wish it would come back in style because the 'wide' sitting is so gross, not to mention inconvenient.