Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

2012-02-03T10:04:01+00:00

Actually, the part that is related to /r/mensrights is the below piece in the comments. Background : the nurse mentions in the article that almost every male mentioned regretting being a workhorse, someone rubbishes that comment, for some reason, leading to this reply,

"Commentor 1 : (2) Every male patient regretted doing too much work and wanted more time with children?

That means every single male she ever nursed was an adult employed parent. She never nursed a male child / an unemployed man / man unable to work / a child-free man. How long must the odds of that be? Amazing!

Commentor 2 : I think there is a kind of denial in your response. The nurse is stating her experience, having seen 1000s of patients. You seem to want to undermine it for some reason which I can only guess at.

The fact that men were - in general - on the treadmill and unable to enjoy time with their children (the one most important part of their lives, if they are anything like me) is not one that everyone wants to accept or think about. Feminists seem split between those that actually want equality (and therefore equal roles for mother and father), and those who would rather forget that fathers existed, and comment on mothers' issues alone.

All the same, with the astonishing amount of print dedicated to arguing that women and mothers have been living a kind of slave's life for centuries, it seems worth pointing out the fact that men weren't just "playing golf" (as a midwife on 'One Born Every Minute' intelligently put it) in the meantime.

Society and financial considerations wouldn't let them, so they also paid a heavy price. No one seems overly concerned by this though.."

Title	Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
Author	[deleted]
Upvotes	7
Comments	1
Date	February 3, 2012 10:01 AM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/p93gb/top_5_regrets_of_the_dying/
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