What we love so much about Martha is not only that she single handedly shares so many truly good things with us, but also that she single handedly gives us so much to write about. The latest comes from an upstanding, stay-at-home dad in Brooklyn who puts SKGR into paroxsysms of laughter daily. This is from yesterday:
"a generous anonymous reader directed your hero's attention to this site:
there are so very many things wrong with those four sentences, i have no clue where to begin. but i'ma give it my best.
first of fucking all: mr. mom?? "mr. mom?" jumping moses, this is 2005, people! i ain't no 1983 michael keaton fired-from-work clueless stay-at-home careerist douche battling gender stereotypes and finding myself suddenly discovering "gosh, parenting is hard work too!"" (Go to post)
164 stay-at-home Dads in one place?
I am sooooo there.
this dad sounds cranky. by the way stay at home dad sounds just as out of touch as mr mom.i know some women describe themselves as stay at home moms, but is sounds like house arrest.there must be a better way to describe the primary caretaker for children.
I'd suggest Work-at-Home Parent (WAHP). It's non-gendered and implies that the parent is doing something productive, whereas "staying" suggests either personal sacrifice ("I stayed home while you had all the fun"), reclusiveness, or inability to get out the door. Since many SAHM's *do* also have home-based businesses, "work" is an accurate term for both the child-rearing and the rest of the stuff that goes on.
Wende,
I like it! (Especially the fact that it's gender-neutral) I'm going to start using it.