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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I loved the editorial in the Ottawa Sun I saw a few years back saying that women as the primary breadwinners with children at home should be charged with child abuse/abandonment. The arguments were the same. Women are more nurturing than males, therefore the father staying home with the child while the woman works is detrimental to the child. Women being primary breadwinners leads to marriage break-ups. (And this may well be true... it played a role in my parents breaking up... my father didn't like the fact that my mother was making more as a white collar middle manager than he was in his blue collar job. But that's not the woman's fault.. that's male ego.)
This misogynistic ideas are out there... in Sun media, on Fox "news".... and just like with gay marriage, we will have to pull the neanderthals into the 21st century.
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Garbage like
this, where people are still using a binary approach to masculinity (and femininity) aren't helping either. I'm only picking on this guy because he I saw a tonne of people liking this article on Facebook, with gems like this one:
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How can anyone call himself a man if the last time he had to confront another man — whether it be over a social incident or for business purposes — was before he hit puberty?
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