Here’s the recent article about the rise of the kitchen bitch house husband.
Pretty lie number one:
as women work more, the qualities we value in a partner can shift greatly. “In a way, it’s almost like bragging for a woman to say she has a stay-at-home husband,”
Sounds great, except I remember reading about men being kitchen bitches and unappealing sexually just last year in The Atlantic, so this is complete and utter bullshit. And why would it be bullshit, its right there in the article: ““At times it’s been emasculating,” says one stay at home dad. Emasculating, means eunuch And I guarantee that’s they way the woman starts to see you. I remember talking to a working woman recently said she needed a wife to take care of all the domestic details of her life. And then she promptly qualified that by saying what she really wanted was a domestic eunuch. Someone that was nonsexual that performed all these duties.
Back to the article. You got to have all the supplicating nonsense to woman and here it is:“I don’t know if I’m man enough to be a woman.” Yep, men aren’t strong enough to be a woman. That shit gets thrown around all the time. Like, “Men couldn’t handle having babies, they couldn’t take the pain.” Funny thing, once the delivery starts, the woman doesn’t have a choice but to go through it and for those of you that want to bring up abortion and that once a man went through it once, they’d never do it again, here’s another interesting tidbit about how mother nature fools you, I have heard from several fathers that while in the delivery room, their spouse’s have said in consternation “Holy Shit, I forgot how much this hurts!” or similar statements. They forget.
And before some asshole accuses me of it, yes child-birth is usually painful, yes it is something that the father and children should see as a wonderful thing their wife and mother did for them. It ain’t a free pass for the rest of your life though. It’s a miracle. But its a common one. And often an abused one too.
Ah, but what’s it like hanging out with all those women. It is exactly as every man with half a brain suspects:
“It would be a gripe session about their husbands, then they’d take it to the next level and talk about the hot guys in the neighborhood,” he says. “I’m like, What can I add?”
Bitching about husbands.
Check.
Drooling over some hotty.
Check.
And our society paints men as derogatory and full of locker room talk.
Is a man ever good enough in the female sphere?
Is a bear catholic if he eats the pope while shitting in the forest?
Of course not.
“It’s a challenge not to say anything when there are dishes in the sink,” she admits. “But I have to check myself—he wasn’t Martha Stewart when I married him, and he won’t be Martha Stewart now.” Still, there are some things a mother can’t tolerate. Jason, a former teacher, is a wonderful, patient father, “but Lucy’s hair is often not properly combed,” says Michelle. “I know he tries, but I don’t think he tightens the ponytail enough.”
What’s really going to happen to those househusbands?
“A wife may be initially drawn to a man because he is nurturing and willing to do this,” she says. “But he can later look weak and inadequate,” particularly if she spends most of her day with men who are ambitious, like herself
Duh.
The article touts househusbands as a status symbol for the wife, but really, what will these women do but become caricatures of men and eventually have some man on the side?
“my wife is the only one who matters. As long as she can look at me and realize that I’m doing the best for our family, it doesn’t matter that some random guy thinks I’m less of a man.”
What if he isn’t “random’?
I promise I won’t think less of you while your wife works late with me . . .
