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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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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.

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.

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 13:48

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

placemats · 05/10/2018 13:51

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

Not.

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 13:52

My wife's stomach

Makes you wonder how the baby was conceived.

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?

NameChangedAgain18 · 05/10/2018 13:56

Makes you wonder how the baby was conceived.

I was wondering this, but for different reasons, since I can feel my ovaries recoiling in horror at the mere thought of someone breeding with this utter twat.

placemats · 05/10/2018 13:57

Floral

His wife's brother or his wife's sister's husband?

I would be furious, and leave the bastard if this happened.

It's not funny.

placemats · 05/10/2018 14:02

If my brother had received such a video he would be having words with me along the lines of ltb and we'll give you all the support you need.

ErrolTheDragon · 05/10/2018 14:03

Making a reverse gif is obviously of the utmost importance. My DH is such a parenting failure, he forgot to put a film in the camera (yes, it was nearly 20 years ago). And obviously he couldn't help when I had problems breastfeeding and DD wouldn't sleep and.... oh, hang on a minute, he kept me fed and watered, the house tolerably clean, the dog well-walked...

Thing is, my DH is a proper grown up man.

AngryAttackKittens · 05/10/2018 14:04

This is true, but at least he could then have thought that a baby might emerge from the stomach. If he saw the birth then how exactly does he think the stomach is where he would theoretically be stuffing the baby back into?

(I realizing that I'm crediting this shitty misogynist for far more interest in the female body than he actually has - from his perspective it's all "stupid girl stuff that's interfering with my ability to be a Woke Dad.)

AngryAttackKittens · 05/10/2018 14:07

And yes, why would you think that a brother would want to receive a "hilarious" video of his sister's baby exiting her vagina in reverse? Hopefully that was the father's shit judgement and not a sign that the poor mother is surrounded entirely by be-penised arseholes.

CurbsideProphet · 05/10/2018 14:09

He sounds so awful I just don't know how he even has a wife. What a load of ridiculous bollocks.

Roomba · 05/10/2018 14:14

My ex used to come out with shite like this (minus the selfie taking and gif creating nobbishness). Then he'd wonder why everyone rolled their eyes at him - obviously everyone was being outrageously sexist and trying to force their gender stereotypes on him when they laughed at him Hmm

I frequently see men like my ex and this man, preening away in the school playground - Look, everyone! I'm so woke, collecting my own kid from school! Worship me ladies!' Note that once they have more than one child, all responsibility if frequently shifted onto the mother, as its far too much like hard work.

Urgh.

silentcrow · 05/10/2018 14:16

Batteries true enough! I am willing to bet this guy hasn't picked up the slack on the laundry, cleaning, cooking, shopping and appointments, though...

stillathing · 05/10/2018 14:18

No you can't breastfeed. Instead of wishing for some ridiculous medical intervention how about you change every single nappy? I promise you that your partner will love you for it and you will bond with your child over it.

Juells · 05/10/2018 14:18

The three 'Guardian Pick' comments at the top of the comments section are very revealing. All in favour of the cock who wrote the article. As are a lot of the comments underneath - mostly from men. WTF is wrong with people?

AngryAttackKittens · 05/10/2018 14:19

If anyone suggested that he could prove he was a good dad by cleaning the toilet while his wife was breastfeeding the resulting tantrum would be something to behold.

FloralBunting · 05/10/2018 14:19

If my DP dared to send a 'comedy' video of my vagina/vulva to a relative, and then used the fact that he had done so in an article showing what a sensitive equality minded chap he was, I think he would be finding out very quickly how wokely he could parent from a separate address to me.

KataraJean · 05/10/2018 14:23

Oh, how glad am I that I no longer read the Guardian

AngryAttackKittens · 05/10/2018 14:26

If my partner decided to send video of my bits to my male relatives I don't think they'd even know what to say. Smug wokebro would presumably interpret appalled silence as being awed by the brilliance of his "joke".

Nicknamesalltaken · 05/10/2018 14:29

What a cock.

SittingAround1 · 05/10/2018 14:39

Given we’re close to being able to gestate babies in bags,

we're really not close, not even remotely.