I didn’t have great answers for her, and honestly, in an effort to minimize your negative impact and what was otherwise a really fun day, I redirected her attention to the cheerleaders and mascot.

She was surprised to see so many Panthers’ fans sitting in our section of the stadium; that doesn’t happen much at fourth grade football games

I don’t deny that there have been improvements, there have been, but it’s amazing how little people know about this sort of history in Canada and how many scoff at it.
Harper apologizing publicly for the residential schools (though no apology from the Catholic church) and Trudea at least promising an inquiry into the…

Wow, then you have zero concept of Canadian history. A simple google of all three of those (execution, slavery, concentration camps) in Canada would prove you wrong immediately.

I love Oz - lived there for a number of years - but racism down under is about as understated as Woolworths grocery aisle of nothing but frankfurts for the barbie. Most of the country firmly believes that the indigenous Australians are a lesser species. And don’t get me started on the role of sheilas in their country…

Pure bullshit. You’re ignoring the horrors such as residential schools, the treatment of Japanese during WWII, treatment of Chinese and Aboriginal workers during the countries beginnings and even contemporary issues like the complete ignorance of the situation many communities are in in rural aboriginal areas.

Which is why Australia was happy to have people of colour from their own lands and other western nations, right? That's why they welcomed those black American soldiers, right? Listen, it's not unique that Australia was this horrible, but we don't have to pretend it wasn't racist.

If you want an interesting history lesson, you should look up racism in Canada.

As Mom always said, it's not just taking out the trash. It's seeing that it needed to be done in the first place, doing it and then not asking for approval afterwards.

Why didn’t we just ask? How could we not think of that! The problem is that the asking and asking again, and again, and getting frustrated because you’ve asked 15 times and nothing has changed is part of the very same emotional labour we’re trying to dispense with. If asking worked we wouldn’t be having this…

I’ve done that, and the boyfriend agrees, and then never does it, because he literally cannot *recognize* when he needs to. And that’s why the whole “Oh well go find someone else,” is both trite and untrue. I’m friends with many, many different types of guys, and the inability to recognize when emotional support is…

Here’s a prime example of what this article is about. We’re all here to read about and discuss the topic of women’s emotional labor. There have been several articles on men’s emotional issues and how we can better ensure that men and boys are allowed a full range of human emotion. And yet here is a man derailing one…

If you can suggest a way to say “No, you need to find a birthday present for your own sister.” without it sounding like “I don’t care about your stupid sister.”, well, I’m all ears.

Yup.

Emotional expectations for men are created by men. Emotional expectations for women are also created by men. Feminists are working on this, but if you want to see change, women aren’t the people you need to snark at.

The finding stuff around the house is right up there on my list of pet-peeves.

“Innate male reactions”... I cannot believe how proud some men are of their patriarchal shackles.

I think that’s a justifiable response. Don’t mess with a lady’s food!

Seriously that’s pretty impressive. He’s steering.

I kind of struggle with the part after the bold though. The men who pay as “beloved husbands.”