You know what’s weird about this? Conservatives are the ones who are always like, “Fathers are essential! How dare you say that children can thrive without a father! Every child deserves a father!” But then they’re like, “LOL, what good is a father to a baby?”

One of the very few fortunate things to come from having a baby in the pandemic (not having people touch me while pregnant was excellent, as was working from home for basically ever) was the fact that my husband was out of work until just recently so for the first 7 months of our baby’s life he’s been home to also…

Humans are basically born premature due to head size and birth canal, and take the longest of most animals to reach maturity; the fact that parental leave for newborns is a debate is proof of incredibly stupid human behavior.

You know, even completely ignoring the homophobia, toxic masculinity, and typical disingenuous GOP manufactured outrage, which is actually the only genuine basis for all this criticism of Buttigieg’s parental leave, let’s just look at this logically a moment. Two parents have adopted premature twins. They claim that…

Hey Joe - tell us you’re a bad father/husband without saying “I’m a bad father/husband!”

Yeah...not surprised that all these guys think the first year of development is 100% about breasts. Can we change their minds by bringing how men have the strong, strong arms needed to carry really unhappy wiggly creatures 24/7?

The second Joe Rogan sticks a cantaloupe up his ass launches it out and handles the next 2 to 5 months with out any help I'll give a shit about his opinion on paternity leave. 

Joe Rogan is a vaguely anthropomorphic “no homo” comment. He has to do this or he’ll be forced to come to terms with with his fondness for sweaty, muscular, scantily clad men slamming into each other in the name of “sport.”

Some podcast (I think) I listen to recently pointed out how gross it is when dads say they’re “babysitting” as in: “I can’t go out Friday, I’m babysitting” and how you never hear a mom say the same thing. It’s called BEING A PARENT. I’m ashamed that I didn’t notice it sooner (though I’m not friends with that many dads)

I’m not shocked a guy that looks like he sweats bacon grease and won’t go to the doctor unless something is literally falling off of him doesn’t get that parenting is a two person job. And for “mom” to enjoy her leave “dad” should be there to take over and so they can take breaks. What garbage. Then again, last year…

Cismale here - I unfortunately was only able to take off 2 weeks of PTO when my wife gave birth to our first. The first week was spent partially looking after that child alone while my wife had to go back to the hospital, then the rest was spent helping my wife with basic tasks since she was emotionally and…

It is very weird. I think Joe Rogan plays both sides well enough that people overlook a lot of what he says. They defend him by saying, “He’s just allowing both sides to speak.” “He doesn’t understand because he’s rich and would hire a nanny.” It’s all nonsense, and I think they give him a pass because they want to be…

I can think of someone, mentioned in this article, who would have benefitted from having their dad spend more time with them.

At least based on the ones I’ve known, I’d say it’s more like they’re Libertarian leaning Dems. Putting them in a weird little overlap where they believe in some liberal policy, but also tend to think that social issues are just a distraction from the all important economics, and somehow think the two are completely…

I know a lot of guys that hold it as a point of pride, the ‘I’ve never changed a diaper’ or ‘I rarely babysit my kids’ 

People like this had fathers who were absent and they make jokes about it as a defense mechanism. They probably wanted fathers who were around, who made them a priority but they didn’t. So now in their jealousy they think no one else is entitled to that.

Don’t be silly. If women were able to marry and bed anyone they wanted, then how are men going to know if their baby is really their baby? And then what happens to the property? You can’t just give your property away to some other kid. Imagine the scandal?!

Forgot about that. That’s not what most folks are thinking of when they think about polygamy, though. 

I don’t see why any of these issues would be particularly difficult in practice?

You’re right nothing in Bible says that woman can’t have two husbands.