totally unfair
Most of the time when i find something unfair, it's unfair favoring me. Like getting paid more money than usual for spending a week at Young Life Camp when all the other leaders have to take time off to go, and sometimes have to pay to camp, hundreds of dollars. That's unfair.
So what's unfair is that if Karen takes either or both of the kids out shopping, she's just a mom out with her kids. Normal. When i take both or one of the kids out ANYWHERE, i get people fawning all over them, telling me how darling they are, and stuff.
I'm sure there's some truth to the stereotype that says that men are irresponsible fathers, and a guy who will take his kids to the grocery store (and buy tampons, no less) is the exception. I and men like me will have to change that by being GOOD FATHERS.
My brother Josh belongs to this place and they have good values. It seems like they are fighting the cultural value that being a MAN is a bad thing. Popular culture shovels images of youth at us. Men are told that they need not grow up. Guys have their "boys", they go to the "crib", they have expensive "toys", some dudes call their female partner "mama". Beer commercials - all ads for that matter - never show men acting like grown ups.
Humph.
As i'm getting older, i actually feel like i'm getting wiser. I pray that GOD does bless me with more wisdom each day.
In addition to showing men to act like kids, the ads nowadays also show men to be idiots. It’s always the man doing something stupid and his wife or kids having to bail him out. “I’m so lame, if i get stung by a bee i have to run crying to my wife.”
-- karen - 31 August '04 - 22:16ah, growing up. i’m still doing that…
-- richard (URL) - 01 September '04 - 18:36courage is a value that is minimised these days, and it takes courage to change a stereotype, never mind to be a daddy who is responisble and ‘there’. Thanks manly Juanito. (Can I take a teensy weensy bit of the credit, please?)
-- mummy (Email) - 02 September '04 - 09:30