Apart from undermining the credibility of paternity leave what is the point of this?
And Kate Harding has written the most perfect reply over at Dame Magazine.
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Making women angrier? Blaming his chromosomes for being useless?
Or, charitably, talking through his issues? Clearly, he lacks self-motivation. His partner doesn’t. I certainly don’t. (As it happens, I wrote a novel while minding a new baby and toddler full-time after my husband went back to work.)
I don’t believe all men dissolve into alcoholism while watching their wife do an entire household’s worth of work. Hopefully neither does anyone else. It insults everyone.
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I would love to hear from his wife on all this.
Mallory Ortberg took a run at it as well:
http://the-toast.net/2015/01/06/id-love-help-wife-dishes-im-trapped-something-heavy/
Thanks for sharing…this response was perfect.
All I can say about the original article is Un. Fucking. Believable.
I don’t get it. He wants recognition for… being unmotivated? Drinking too much? Not participating in the household? Having lied on his declaration to the uni that he’d be responsible for 50% of parenting? Talk about privilege. There’s no way that anyone but a white male could get away with flaunting this and be considered cute, an oh-so-clever writer, a tortured soul…
I wish I’d have had someone to take a picture of my face as I read this. What? I mean I’m all for self reflection but good lord way to make yourself seems like a useless partner and useless employee?