Mr. Mom vs. Mom – Double Standard?
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog
MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org
I got a letter from a reader who was up in the middle of the night stewing over praise heaped on men when they are seen to be caring for their children. Her frustration practically leaps off the screen as she insists mothers don’t get the same public empathy fathers do. This is what she says:
“If you see an exasperated mother with her kids in the grocery store, exhausted, overwhelmed from a full day’s work, picking up dinner, scolding her children for acting out–what opinion do you form? Is it positive? I think probably not. Would she encounter hostility or rolling eyes? Maybe. Probably. ‘Why didn’t she plan ahead?’ you’d wonder. ‘Maybe she shouldn’t be working if…..’
BUT, if you subtract the mother and put the father in her place…..isn’t he glorified? ‘What a hero..he must be