It is frustrating and unfair. But we learn so much about how we are supposed to act by the behaviour we see modeled for us, either in the home or in society around us. Who are the active fathering role models that are teaching men how to parent?

AS I said a couple of weeks ago here, I had to write on my kids’ health forms for their elementary school: “Mike = Mom”; “Stacy = Dad”. It was the only way for the school to contact me when my child had a fever, scraped a knee, needed a field trip form signed, etc....

I felt like shit the last two nights and my husband took a sick day yesterday to care for our 2-year-old. It’s one of the sexiest things ever. Will be jumping his bones as soon as I feel at least 98%.

Look at his arms! His biceps are like 6x larger than his head

The world will be a better place when the boomers shuffle off it. 

I agree, and I truly do think he’s sexier if he’s taking care of the kids, or gardening, or cleaning up after dinner. Basically anything that makes my life easier makes him VERY attractive to me. And he knows it.

I can’t wait until that thinking dies off. Kids need pretty equal time with their parents. I regret not having that, with mine. I grew up with a dad who worked as the primary breadwinner (very blue collar, dirty, lots of long hours, days away at a time if he flew out on a job), and he missed most school functions and…

So, as a man who went through this, I can say I encountered a lot of exclusionary attitudes through the whole pregnancy process and into the first few years of my kids’ lives. (I’m not looking for sympathy.) Now, being who I am (stubborn), that didn’t push me away from what I already planned to do, which was be a…

Quite frankly, I am sick and tired of babies being automatically associated with women. It’s bad enough our careers suffer because we’re the primary care givers when kids get sick.

I really don’t understand the framing of this issue, and the attitude of the article. You resent the idea that society might move towards greater recognition of men’s responsibilities and roles when it comes to pregnancy and child-rearing? The cultural coding of pregnancy and childcare as 100% women’s issues that…

Representation matters. All too often men are shown to be clueless as fathers and we all chuckle along, or they are demeaned for seeming maternal and therefore unmanly, when all they are doing is actually parenting. Or they’re entirely absent or used as a sort of boogeyman for when a child has to be reprimanded. If…

Yeah I’m tired of shitting on things that can make things better. If targeting men helps men be more engaged let’s do that. Bitching and saying men should just care isn’t going to change a thing.

Any little step counts and frankly there’s nothing wrong with making people feel welcome. Men in the United States are generally not expected to take much interest in raising their children beyond providing for the family and being the “fun” parent. 

I’m hoping this will be the one where we revolt. Think about it, GWB and the Zoo Crew were about as limp and broke dick as possible in selling us Iraq and “No-It’s-Not-Just-For-Opium-And-Oil” Afghanistan. Trump is a conman but not on selling the 80% of voters who don’t like him, on a war we know damn well they can’t…

It’s a tuber, Spice. Come on. 

Yup, and it’s already looking like Iran. Looking at getting the “We don’t want a soft lib as President when we are at war” vote.

Me too, and that’s as a queer woman! I found Blue one of the only films about sex with women that even vaguely resembles my lived experience. But maybe we have the actresses to thank for that, they were both amazing.

can we 1. stop calling incels closeted (and therefore gay) as if being gay is bad and 2. stop equating being gay with being guy crazy?

One of my favorite goddamn things in the world, and now they’ve vanished from the last Japanese market in my city (frickin’ Vancouver BC of all places to suffer from selection-contraction) that still carried them. I’m constantly trying out new Japanese and pan-Asian markets that brag of their great selection, only to…

Botan Rice Candy