Posted on 09/21/2010 12:22:01 PM PDT by pissant
"To survive in a hostile world, guys need to embrace girly jobs and dirty diapers," argued the Newsweek writers Andrew Romano and Tony Dokoupil in the subheadline of their September 20 article "Men's Lib."
The writers set out to explain "[w]hy it’s time to reimagine masculinity at work and at home."
If American men want to be competitive in a global economy, they argued, they need to suck it up and get comfortable with the idea of working traditionally "girly jobs" and/or being stay at home dads:
It’s possible to imagine protectionist trade and immigration policies boosting blue-collar employment at the margins. But the U.S. can’t stop globalization. If male morale—and the American economy—are ever going to recover, the truth is that the next generation of Homer Simpsons will have to stop searching for outsourced manufacturing jobs and start working toward teaching, nursing, or social-service positions instead.
Fair enough. But Romano and Dokoupil also cast their gaze across the Atlantic, arguing America needs public policies that emulate European countries on paid parental leave, particularly paid paternal leave (emphasis mine):
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
What is the big friggin deal about changing diapers. A real man, a father, doesnt have a problem changing a diaper.
I know guys a lot tougher than I who have been happy to change a diaper, wash dishes, do laundry, mow the lawn.
Real men know the quickest way to a really good Saturday night is to spend some time doing chores.
Anyone in Europe with any get up and go, got up and left three hundred years ago.
Don’t forget purse-carrying.
yeah, that’s all we need is more men looking in mirrors
or Mr. Bean...
$10 says every one of those Newsweak guys squat when they relieve themselves.
That's why I don't watch the programs on television these days.
Yep, works for me. :)
A nation of bureaucrats. Wonderful.
The irony of a magazine that can’t survive in today’s marketplace giving economic (or any) advice is rich.
I'll take freedom and it's perils any day, thank you.
DoughtyOne, I’m so hungry for a deep voice, LOL. Men also have breasts now days. I can’t look.
Mr. Mom
158,000: Estimated number of stay-at-home dads in 2009. These married fathers with children younger than 15 have remained out of the labor force for at least one year primarily so they can care for the family while their wives work outside the home. These fathers cared for 290,000 children. Among these stay-at-home dads, 59 percent had two or more children, and 57 percent had an annual family income of $50,000 or more.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/dadcensus1.html
Well I’m not going to give you a hard time for that. If I had young kids again, there wouldn’t be a television in the home. Then again, how do you raise issues that are so prevalent in society today, so that you can counter what they will be exposed to out of the home.
I know 158,000 sounds like a big number, but I’ll have to admit I thought that number would be a lot larger. Wow.
I’ve seen 158,000 Mr. Mom movies on the Lifetime Movie Channel, LOL.
I thought the figure would be millions. We’ve been tricked once again.
I thought it would be millions too.
Isn’t Lifetime the “He Done Me Wrong” network? There’s one of them where the woman is abused by the male character in every single movie. Makes you wanna scratch your head and wonder what’s up with that.
Where’s prince Charles in his skirt when you need him?
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