May
9
“There is a fundamental unfairness to the way men are treated with their children in public compared to women. A man carrying a screaming infant while dragging a toddler who’s having a fit because the carousel is only open on weekends, well he’s “such a good dad.” I swear four women came up and told me that yesterday under those exact circumstances. If I had been my wife I’m sure they would have been shaking their heads with a tsk tsk. Mothers, I’ve learned from floor polish commercials, have to give 100 percent. Fatherhood is not unlike the Special Olympics. Sometimes you get a medal just for showing up.”
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