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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

My husband, the working dad

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TravellingToad · 28/07/2015 21:41

Would I be unreasonable to start referring to all fathers who work as "working dads"?

I'm a business women, earn 6 figures, manage employees and have 2 children. Yet I just get reduced to "working mum". My husband who also works has NEVER been called a working dad.

It irritates me a lot, possibly unreasonably but I bristle every time someone says it purely because it just seems like another phrase that doesn't get applied equally across the sexes. To my ear it sounds like "women driver" or in a daily mail article "Grandma, 65, killed" whereas they would say "Man, 65, killed"

Does this get on anyone elses goat?

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ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 05/08/2015 20:20

thelitte

isn't that a little gem from your MILShock

does she also say that all SAHM don't go to work because they like being dependent? Wink
well, with that logic all the people who decide to have kids must hate being independent!Grin

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