I am not a mother, in case that post title was somewhat misleading. I am a father. But I may not be one in the traditional sense of the word. As a stay-at-home Dad, and blogger about such things, I am at the forefront of the online men’s movement to become more like women. Wait, […]
Category Archives: Gender
Big Hero 6 – A Team of 4?
Okay, I’ll admit it. I caved. We have a family tradition that involves going to see a movie over Thanksgiving weekend, and this year we had already chosen Big Hero 6 as our obvious choice. But then, we just couldn’t wait. Well, I just couldn’t wait. It looked so gooooood! I had to seeeeee it! Ahhhhhhh! And so […]
Is This Your Son?
I was at Costco recently, buying gigantic things that we do not need, and my four-year-old was with me and sitting in the cart. I don’t know if you have ever been to a Costco, but the registers there have a slightly different flow than other stores. The shopper goes to one side of the […]
Chivalry is Just a Euphemism for Sexism
Yes, all women. Yes, all men. Yes, all humans. We are all in the world together, and we all participate in it. Even when we don’t want to and don’t mean to, there we are. Participating. Even when we fight the system, rage against the machine, and work diligently to change ourselves and others, there […]
The Story of the Midnight Dragon with the Backward Head
I promised to tell you this story a while ago, and since it is still Mother’s Day week, this seems like as good a time as any to tell you the tale of how my mother came to the rescue of her poor son, and the midnight dragon with the backward head. It all started […]
The Measure of a Man
It can be hard these days to be a man. Not in terms of, like, getting paid more, having all of the power, retaining extraordinary privilege, and generally having it way easy, but in other ways it is hard. For instance, these tricky gender roles are always a problem for men. Women have been fighting […]
The Difference Between Girls and Boys
I’ve learned a few things about girls in my lifeFrom sisters and friends, from my mother and wife,But all of this info can barely hold waterCompared with the stuff that I’ve learned from my daughter. For instance I’ve learned that, when shopping for toys,There isn’t much difference between girls and boys.Sometimes she wants Barbies and […]
If Women Are Not Objects, Why Are Objects Women?
For some reason, going to church makes me think a lot about gender issues. Perhaps it is the seemingly constant struggle and debate over the gender of God that does it to me. Does God even have a gender? Yeah, I know, ancient texts refer to God as “he,” but back then every authority figure […]
Dad, Do Pirates Have to Be Boys?
So we’re sitting on the couch watching something as harmless(?) as Jake and the Neverland Pirates, and Ruby, my kindergartener, asks me “Dad, do pirates have to be boys?” So what do I say? My first thought, to myself anyway, is that for many years women weren’t even allowed on ships. Bad luck supposedly. And […]
Where’s Your Mother?!
One of the great things about being a stay-at-home-dad is that, when things go wrong, people tend to ignore you and blame the mother. Somehow the general public still cannot wrap their minds around the fact that the father may, in fact, be the one responsible for the terrible behavior that is spewing forth from […]