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Toby Young for example...

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Bumperlicious · 17/01/2011 17:49

You know the rest. He (I think that's who he was - god I hope I got the right one) was just on R4 saying how woman are better at early parenting than men. It's the whole 'I'm so crap at housework there's no point in me doing it' argument.

And it's bollocks really. As a breastfeeder I am spectacularly crap at soothing my babies other than sticking a boob in their mouth. Dh's lack of breasts has meant he has had to be much more creative in soothing our children.

Twat!

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HerBeatitude · 17/01/2011 19:39

He's jsut bloody selfish basically isn't he.

I feel sorry for his wife.

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Bumperlicious · 17/01/2011 19:14

He also said most men don't really want to take paternity leave. How fecking insulting! My dh was a pt sahd until I went on maternity leave, & a damn good job he made of it too.

He said men dont want to be at home with a screaming baby. Well woman don't bloody want to either but you take rough with the smooth. He just seems to lack a sense of protectiveness or a desire to care for young children. I find that a right turn off to be honest.

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Batteryhuman · 17/01/2011 19:07

I believe it is called strategic incompetence or in Toby Young's case general twattishness

beyondtacky · 17/01/2011 19:04

Oh I nearly threw my radio out the window. Pathetic loser. Compared taking care of babies to being emasculated. While pretending all this was a compliment to woman. DH and I were both unimpressed.

So wait - he says if you breastfeed, dad won't bond, but also that dads also can't take care of babies for shit - get your POVs lined up, twat.

Ormirian · 17/01/2011 18:49

Yes, indeed.

I mentioned him on the other thread.

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Bumperlicious · 17/01/2011 18:47

Thanks butterfly! Didn't realise I'd posted twice.

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FlamingoBingo · 17/01/2011 18:02

That rubbish always winds me up. Just like 'if you breastfeed then the dad won't get to bond'. My DH has the most wonderful, deep, special relationship with his daughters and has only fed one of them once with about 1/2oz ebm, and he hated the experience because it felt so false and wrong. He far preferred doing the real father stuff (ie. anything that doesn't involve boobs) and was (and is) bloody brilliant at it.

The only thing women are better than men at wrt early parenting is breastfeeding!

YeButerfleogeEffete · 17/01/2011 17:57

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JoanofArgos · 17/01/2011 17:56

Well, where do I sign up to get my child taught by this pillar of enlightened thinking, I wonder?

Enough to make you weep Biscuit

StewieGriffinsMom · 17/01/2011 17:52

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