Comments on: SAHDs

By: Hestia

Hestia — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:29:59 +0000

Plus, I like doing most house stuff anyway and it gives me time to work on that novel…

You understand that there’s a difference between being a stay-at-home-dad and being a stay-at-home-novel-writer, right?

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:12:22 +0000

SAHD’s are the life. Please, if a woman could provide for me, I wouldn’t be happy enough. She wants to win the bread, I certainly will not stop her. Plus, I like doing most house stuff anyway and it gives me time to work on that novel…

By: lee

lee — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:26:43 +0000

Man, if i ever find a woman to marry me and have my children I would so be a sahd.

By: MuzakBox

MuzakBox — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:13:20 +0000

Isn’t that funny…my husband is a SAHD too…huh. Funny that we would be feminists….

By: ks

ks — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:05:47 +0000

I love Colbert. That man (and his writers) is a complete genius.

n3rdchik:

Yes, a horrible unsolvable problem. If my husband wasn’t a SAHD, my kids wouldn’t be watching Thundarr the Barbarian this afternoon.

Totally off topic, but is that on some channel I don’t get or are there dvds? That was my absolute favorite cartoon as a kid.

By: Uccellina

Uccellina — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:55:36 +0000

My husband fell off of his chair laughing at this. Then he finished cooking our dinner :-)

By: Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:23:37 +0000

Despite that and the feeling-up crap (why?), Colbert is still my Truthiness Messiah.

The feeling-up crap was, “See, you’re so emasculated that even I, Stephen Colbert, can steal your woman!”

It was (purposely!) a little gross, but absolutely necessary to play all of the stereotypes off one another.

I loved the slow-mo “danger!” shots of men pushing baby strollers.

By: Djiril

Djiril — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:46:31 +0000

Working women are either hypermasculinized (the shots of her drinking beer on the couch while the husband a vacuumed) or hypersexualized (feeling up).

Yeah, I think he defanged both stereotypes by playing them against each other.

By: JackGoff

JackGoff — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:25:39 +0000

The whole “I surrendered my manhood” thing got me more. No, you didn’t. If you think you did, that’s because society made you define “manhood” according to its precepts, but you didn’t surrender anything.

Despite that and the feeling-up crap (why?), Colbert is still my Truthiness Messiah.

By: Auntie Social

Auntie Social — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:45:34 +0000

Because my mother died when I was 12, my dad ended up being a SAHD by default. (He was eligible for early retirement, so he took it.) From then on, my beloved, incredible Dad cooked a bazillion healthy dinners for his three girls; helped me get into college a year early; taught me to play chess, cook cabbage and grow roses. He also taught me to take every possible opportunity to learn a new language (elementary Japanese is not very difficult. Intermediate German is somewhat harder).

In my own experience, Dads make great primary care-givers! If it hadn’t been for my beloved Dad, I would have ended up a total loss.