How to Negotiate Dad, Baby, and Work Homework

​Top tips for men juggling a successful career and fatherhood hilariously nails how sexist the advice given to working women is

Recently, The Baddest Feminist Review took a look at the best ways for men to get men to be men by defusing the ‘woman crush Wednesday’ bit. They started with this:

Step 1: Talk About Your Work

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Good guys don’t talk about women’s work unless they are working in a bar, like that really interesting guy on CNBC. Yet if you’re a workaholic, you talk about your jobs a lot, even though no one else at work does. You’re a perfectionist. Even if you were working at a sweet little coffee shop for a year, you would still talk about your opportunities in the workplace until one morning when the opportunity presented itself in the form of a blizzard. Wait, you’re saying that even when you don’t work? If you’re a stay-at-home dad, chances are you have been out buying diapers at the store while wearing your comfy sweatpants as your scarf while totally ignoring the craziness of the whole thing. “You know, it’s a short trip to my house today,” the mother says to the bubbly first-time mother as she tries to explain to her her timeline of events. She’s trying to make a point, but the moments when she’s reading through what she ate and how much money she spent today is when she’s not engaged in conversation. That first-time mother tries to take responsibility by deciding she is going to stop making it that hard. “Actually, being the overbearing huge, flighty, bossy, two-faced woman to a new mom really doesn’t suck,” she says to the mum. Her journey is a rollercoaster of “I’ve got to get something outta this day!” and “I have to get it done.” See, it’s not that workmen see us as people who do boring, repetitive work. It’s that we always take on other people’s responsibilities.