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Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 07:21 PM Jul 2012

Women still "can't have it all"? Have men EVER had it all? [View all]

Tell me how a man manages to earn enough money to raise a family AND manage to be a stay at home dad.

It seems to me that the question of how a woman can "have it all" is often discussed, but the question is never even asked for men.

Furthermore, the assumption that men don't really want to stay at home because -well, they are MEN, is insulting and unfair.

One somewhat separate, but related issue, is that largely in order to even attract a mate, men must prove themselves (usually) to be earners, successful men who can bring in money. You can show exceptions to this, but it is the norm in most societies.

My opinion is that any woman's movement that tries to readjust society so that they can "have it all" must necessarily address the lack of freedom that men have (arguably LESS freedom than women in the "have it all" department).

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