Camp Bestival - Making Stereotypes Entertainment

[FusionChefGeoff]

Just seen this as a featured show at Camp Bestival

www.campbestival.net/line-up/2018-line-up/father-of-daughters-vs-fathers-of-sons/

Am tempted to get in touch to express unhappiness as presumably this will be nothing but peddling, enforcing and validating harmful gender stereotypes...

Anyone on Twitter fancy helping out as my account is a work one?

If you don't want to watch it then don't but stop trying to spoil it for those of us who have no problem with it and will find it funny. 🙄

Have you thought about the messages it's sending to your kids though?

depends how they approach it I think.

if they talk about the different pressures placed on male and female children by society, the different risks faced by male and female children, then all power to them

if it's this nonsense about male children being inherently more boisterous and more difficult during their early years, but girls being more of a struggle as teenagers due to being 'sly' (yes people have said this to me), then they can fuck right off

but how do you know it will be funny Greggers? what's inherently funny about comparing the experiences of parents of male and female children?

if done properly it's more likely to make you sad or angry I'd have thought

I know the one with daughters is a blogger, anyone follow and know if he's full of sexist shite?

@FusionChefGeoff so you don't actually know if he's sexist or not?

No but the very premise of the 'show' pits boys v girls so they won't have any content if they don't rely on stereotypes.

Actually I have just re-read the blurb but forced my hackles down and there's a chance it could actually end up making the point that kids are kids...

Maybe I'll go along and heckle if it's going down the gender stereotypes route!!

yes, I'll be interested to hear how they do handle it

parents or girls definitely have different experiences to parents of boys

they shouldn't, but they do

Very powerful last line

I know the one with daughters is a blogger, anyone follow and know if he's full of sexist shite?

I don't know (I don't look at blogs as I refuse to boost the egos and income of people who generally are saying little worth listening to ) but this Telegraph article makes my teeth itch.

I can't bear this "ooh look at me and my wacky family doing wacky things that , well honestly , millions of families do but I'm going to chuck out some self- congratulatory and /or self pitying codswallop for a few bucks" style of writing.

Michelle Hanson and her boring series about Precious was one. Then that awful Julie Myserson and living with teenagers. Then Stuart Heritage(?) and the unbearably smug Man with a pram.

www.telegraph.co.uk/family/parenting/meet-men-behind-slummy-mummies-instagram/

Framed as a competition they usually justify and promote stereotypes and make it all about the main character in everyone's life, dad.
You would think it had been done to death by now but zombie lies never die.

Anyone on Twitter fancy helping out as my account is a work one?

lol, you mean doing the work for you publicly and so getting the flack?

The daughter one has lots of fans who like to defend his honour. He's not a blogger but is vair vair big on instagram.