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Peak Guardian woke bro

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RealGhouls · 05/10/2018 11:42

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/05/millennial-dads-are-a-force-for-good-but-even-we-cant-breastfeed

"Millennial dads are a force for good, but even we can't breastfeed"

A self-indulgent wankfest about how his wife (that's not very progessive, Dan) giving birth was so terribly stressful to him and how

" During the delivery the midwives let me take a photo of Declan being yanked out, covered in blood and gore. After the nurses took him away again I turned the video into a gif in reverse (the child going back into my wife’s stomach) and sent it to my brother-in-law. I still hadn’t told him my son’s name."

"We’ve been lucky enough to be able to exclusively breastfeed since birth (having been bullied into it by some aggressive midwives) – but because we’ve had issues with expressing, my wife is basically tethered to the child. I can’t get up at night and feed the boy to give her a solid eight hours of sleep and it does get to me. She can’t yet bugger off for a weekend away letting me take the kid. I just can’t be enough of a parent for our child yet.

Would you believe as a straight, white male what has driven me insane is being unable to feed my son. This baby is going to need his mum for at least a while longer. . It seems that despite all the progress of gender equality and being able to flip gender roles on their head, men being unable to lactate may be the final Rubicon to cross. Given we’re close to being able to gestate babies in bags, how far away are we from men being able to chow down on some Pfizer Dadanol and get lactating? Looks like until the Elon Musk of norgs gets on the case, I’m going to continue to be the worse parent."

I'm honestly confused how he overlooks the 'being pregnant and having a uterus' issue in favour of 'omigod it's so terrible my son can't suckle on my moobs'.

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FloralBunting · 05/10/2018 13:55

Ok, I haven't RTFT, but can someone explain to me why the self-involved twat made a gif of his child going back into his wife's uterus and sent it to his BIL???! Is this normal behaviour?

placemats · 05/10/2018 13:52

My wife's stomach

Makes you wonder how the baby was conceived.

SheCameFromGreeceSheHadaThirst · 05/10/2018 13:52

Unless he means the baby was born via C section he seems a bit confused

C-section babies are still gestated in the uterus, not the stomach. The method of exit does not alter that.

placemats · 05/10/2018 13:51

I await with baited breath his fathering skills when it comes to sending the child to school.

Not.

AngryAttackKittens · 05/10/2018 13:48

Unless he means the baby was born via C section he seems a bit confused.

DisrespectfulAdultFemale · 05/10/2018 13:46

my wife’s stomach

I've got news for New Dad: babies are not gestated in stomachs.

AngryAttackKittens · 05/10/2018 13:45

Would I believe that a straight white man is so self-involved that he resents the fact that his child needs their mother? Yes, I would.

ErrolTheDragon · 05/10/2018 13:43

Would you believe as a straight, white male what has driven me insane is being unable to feed my son. This baby is going to need his mum for at least a while longer

Yes, I absolutely believe him.

Self-indulgent git.

ErrolTheDragon · 05/10/2018 13:41

It seems that despite all the progress of gender equality and being able to flip gender roles on their head, men being unable to lactate ...

WokeDad has made the rookie error of confusing 'gender' and 'sex', and how the latter tends to give rise to the former.

Women are useless at impregnating women; men are totally crap at bearing a child and breastfeeding. Those are about the only physical functions which are completely the domain of one sex or the other.

As a dad can't participate in the sexed role of breastfeeding, I suggest he puts his efforts into those parts of parts of parenting which are not constrained by sex, in which differential behaviours are truly down to 'gender'.

ThePrincipal · 05/10/2018 13:08

Who reads the Guardian nowadays?

SheCameFromGreeceSheHadaThirst · 05/10/2018 13:07

Perhaps he could have simply identified as a woman and then magically he could have breastfed his child? That’s how it works in the guardian for the woke, right?

There are a few comments on the article sarcastically suggesting that same thing. I'm amazed the uber-woke Guardian hasn't deleted them cos, you know, actual hate speak.

ThePrincipal · 05/10/2018 13:07

Ffs . He is now a father. I despair.

These snowflakes are meant to be running the world in a few years time....I don’t think they should be allowed to.

TheLandsWhereTheJumbliesLive · 05/10/2018 13:02

I've reached peak Guardian. I'm finally deleting the app from my phone, and it's been a long time coming. Farewell Owen Jones and woke dude bros!

GoldenWonderwall · 05/10/2018 12:59

Perhaps he could have simply identified as a woman and then magically he could have breastfed his child? That’s how it works in the guardian for the woke, right?

I suppose if young women read it, it may act as a prophylactic so there’s that anyway.

LeftRightCentre · 05/10/2018 12:56

He's straight outta that uber wank Alexa advert. 'Laura says you're doing a great job and she loves you.'

hackmum · 05/10/2018 12:55

I think maybe it's supposed to be humorous. You know, poking fun at himself. I'm not sure, though. And even if it is, it's not really funny, is it? Imagine how it felt for his wife going through that emergency caesarean knowing her baby's life was at risk. It's just sad, and scary, and not funny at all. With pieces like this the woman's experience gets written out.

rememberatime · 05/10/2018 12:49

My ex used to say "we are pregnant" . This was nearly 20 years ago. The midwives used to think he was terribly "forward thinking".

I always felt there was something terribly wrong. Later I found out he was controlling and a wanker...

Batteriesallgone · 05/10/2018 12:45

Depends on the baby to be fair silent, feeding was the only thing that would settle my lot as babies.

MrsWinkly · 05/10/2018 12:44

I think he'd be busy taking a load of selfies and making 'Dan breastfeeding baby' gifs so he could broadcast his unique dudey woke important Dad role.

silentcrow · 05/10/2018 12:42

Wait, what? I breastfed my two for years each and my DH walked miles with them every night when they couldn't settle or were teething. We averaged about four hours each on a good night. The eldest had colic so badly that I used to put her in his arms the moment he walked through the door so I could just get ten minutes to breathe.

Why is this twonk whining about nursing when it's nowhere near the biggest part of having a newborn? He just cannot cope if he's not the centre of attention.

ShackUp · 05/10/2018 12:39

Even if he could breastfeed, he'd give up after 5 minutes anyway, because any amount of strain/pain/sleeplessness would kill him, the poor flower.

LeftRightCentre · 05/10/2018 12:34

'I want to buy his wife a drink.'

I want to buy her a DIY divorce pack from WHSmiths and access to the freedom program.

The latter, x10 to the 1000th power. What a fucking narc wanker. Sending that GIF is unconscionable. Stupid self-obsessed weapons grade wankbadger.

Mrskeats · 05/10/2018 12:32

I cannot bear the Guardian these days.
Would not line a budgie’s cage with it.
It comes to something when I prefer the Spectator.

pancaketosser · 05/10/2018 12:31

Am I still on the Private Eye thread? Surely this is satire?

MidnightVelvetthe7th · 05/10/2018 12:29

His wife must be so happy that members of the family are seeing her genitals when she's at her most vulnerable.

I fucking hope she consented to that gif being sent!