This thread is dedicated to the dedicated daddy's out there. Get in here if you need to whine like a little biotch about your woes being a daddy. Sorry for poor grammar or questionable language, it's the lavender room and it's supposed to be a bit funny.
I'll kick it off with this, one of my favorite Chris Rock segments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPPjDUV1lo
Warning, foul language. Not sure it's my favorite version he's done, but you get the idea.
We hear about all the patriarchy and problems today. I don't know about you, but I don't see that. I see whole new levels of daddy's both taking on more roles at home AND more daddy's being the stay home.
When I was growing up, this was daddy's work week schedule for a day:
-wakeup at 6am
-walk to kitchen and cuss about what brand of sugar shit cereal mom had bought
-eat it, then go downstairs and watch the news until 7:15........probably asleep
-leave for work at 7:30 arrive home at 5:15
-walk downstairs and turn on news, come up for dinner, return to TV downstairs
-go to bed
Toss in a few man chores like grass or the above-ground pool or some garden time, or playing golf.
I never in my childhood remember my dad either EVER or less than 5 times doing the following:
-laundry
-dishes
-reading stories to the kids or tending kids at bath time
-pickup groceries
-use a broom
-make a bed
-clean a bathroom
I hear more and more men picking up on these tasks at home with the division of labor, myself included. But with the division, respect does NOT follow. Sure, maybe daddy was an asshole for watching TV before and after dinner and not doing shit.
But daddy had more respect for doing that back then than daddy does today while doing that stuff.
To pickup further on the Chris Rock thing about father's day vs. mother's day.........God forbid you flub something on mother's day. Gift, brunch......it has to be brunch or you flubbed and forgot and had to do lunch or dinner.
Father's day and my birthday, no shit, I've been called 3 out of 3 years in a row in the middle of a golf round or bike ride about "where the heck are you". I've gotten tired of people growing older and being wussy and leaving the house at like 9PM when we're hanging out for my birthday, so this year I said I was going to ride with my riding buddies from 8AM till lunch. "Why you want to do that? I'll be with the kids then if you do that." I never said you couldn't do the same and I'd take the kids.
I do my first ever out of town race and God forbid. When the wife ran she did an out of town 1/2 run and has had the kids and I and other family at the finish with signs and shit every time. Daddy almost dies to finish mid pack in a bike road race of a bunch of crazy fools.......nothing. I finish a 100mi event last year and there's tacos and music and a family friendly environment.......oh, let's just hurry home since we're here to pick you up.
I don't think it's a "bad person" kind of thing, I just think that in this day and age............daddy don't get no respect NO MORE.
I'll kick it off with this, one of my favorite Chris Rock segments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPPjDUV1lo
Warning, foul language. Not sure it's my favorite version he's done, but you get the idea.
We hear about all the patriarchy and problems today. I don't know about you, but I don't see that. I see whole new levels of daddy's both taking on more roles at home AND more daddy's being the stay home.
When I was growing up, this was daddy's work week schedule for a day:
-wakeup at 6am
-walk to kitchen and cuss about what brand of sugar shit cereal mom had bought
-eat it, then go downstairs and watch the news until 7:15........probably asleep
-leave for work at 7:30 arrive home at 5:15
-walk downstairs and turn on news, come up for dinner, return to TV downstairs
-go to bed
Toss in a few man chores like grass or the above-ground pool or some garden time, or playing golf.
I never in my childhood remember my dad either EVER or less than 5 times doing the following:
-laundry
-dishes
-reading stories to the kids or tending kids at bath time
-pickup groceries
-use a broom
-make a bed
-clean a bathroom
I hear more and more men picking up on these tasks at home with the division of labor, myself included. But with the division, respect does NOT follow. Sure, maybe daddy was an asshole for watching TV before and after dinner and not doing shit.
But daddy had more respect for doing that back then than daddy does today while doing that stuff.
To pickup further on the Chris Rock thing about father's day vs. mother's day.........God forbid you flub something on mother's day. Gift, brunch......it has to be brunch or you flubbed and forgot and had to do lunch or dinner.
Father's day and my birthday, no shit, I've been called 3 out of 3 years in a row in the middle of a golf round or bike ride about "where the heck are you". I've gotten tired of people growing older and being wussy and leaving the house at like 9PM when we're hanging out for my birthday, so this year I said I was going to ride with my riding buddies from 8AM till lunch. "Why you want to do that? I'll be with the kids then if you do that." I never said you couldn't do the same and I'd take the kids.
I do my first ever out of town race and God forbid. When the wife ran she did an out of town 1/2 run and has had the kids and I and other family at the finish with signs and shit every time. Daddy almost dies to finish mid pack in a bike road race of a bunch of crazy fools.......nothing. I finish a 100mi event last year and there's tacos and music and a family friendly environment.......oh, let's just hurry home since we're here to pick you up.
I don't think it's a "bad person" kind of thing, I just think that in this day and age............daddy don't get no respect NO MORE.