"Things Dads wish Mums knew"...

[FrauleinF]

Just got sent the attached in an email from Bounty. Patronising, much?

Nicely plays on the stereotype that God forbid men as a class actually TALK about their feelings to their wives and partners when of course it is our job as women to successfully intuit whatever problem any man in our life has at any particular moment - and our failure when said problem isn't immediately resolved to his liking.

Yes indeed, I am well aware that becoming a family with a baby is an upheaval for fathers as well as mothers. I do however have a sneaking suspicion that a list of "things Mums wish Dads knew" would be a lot less twee...

Bounty can fuck off unless it’s full of coconut and covered in chocolate.

Bloody hell, if DH had been like that I would have felt like I had an extra child to look after! This says that, even in the context of having a loving partner ("he still thinks you're gorgeous" - I should fucking well think so after what I went through!), women are expected to do all the emotional shitwork.

Makes dads sound as if they are no different to the family dog in how they react to having a baby in the house

Things like this are pointless. "He still think your gorgeous", maybe he doesn't. Maybe the relationship was falling apart and the pregnancy happened. Maybe you're both going to struggle, during times like that you need honesty about how to work together, not "live, laugh, love".

Urge to vomit rising...

After you with the sick bucket please, SirSamuel...! What a pathetic list.

Bounty can fuck off. They try to financial profit off women literally hours after they have given birth. Fuck them and fuck their made up advice. Scam artists.

Things mums wished Bounty knew:
How to communicate with grown, intelligent, individual people in a non patronising way.

Also: what a load of shit. Stop portraying men as useless children who need to be mollycoddled.

@Deliriumoftheendless

Bounty can fuck off unless it’s full of coconut and covered in chocolate.

Love this!

Off the top of my head....

She loves being a mum
She's fed up of smelling of cheese
Sometimes she's fed up of being touched & wants half an hour of quiet
She wants you to listen to what she's saying. First time, instead of her saying it 25 times until it becomes nagging
No shit Sherlock
See above
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
We're verging into territory now...

Oh Barf! Didn't Mumsnet run an anti-Bounty campaign which made some changes? I remember the fucking vultures coming round the maternity ward.

He still think your gorgeous

With bloodied pants from constant bleeding, flabby tummy and leaking boobs - he really didn’t.

I don’t need to be a f*king sex bomb after delivery.

"Things Mums wish marketing executives knew"

💜 We are not a homogenous mass of gullible pink-brained fools who will be patronised into swallowing one-size-fits-all soundbites about our personal relationships just because they sound vaguely 'motivational'

I thought it was going to be some secret 'boy stuff' about washing testicles or something. Not some silly sexist nonsense.

Things mums wished dads knew:

To tell the bounty twat to fuck off if they come near them.

Bring food now?

Whoever wrote this hates men. Or doesn't know any normal men.

What's Bounty?

This is why i unsubscribed from Bounty and the (even worse) Emmas Diary. Its all patronising bollocks.

He wants some attention

And she wants just 30 minutes where nobody demands her attention.

She's not watching Friends on repeat instead of giving him attention.

He wants attention and reassurance? Aww. . He wants a break? Pahahaha!

I hear you, but if I was a man or a dad, I'd be pretty patronised by that too.

That’s toe-curlingly awful.

It sounds more like they’re describing a toddler than fully grown adults. Do they really think (a) men are this useless and (b) after giving birth and, let’s face it, probably doing the majority of the donkey work with baby, ‘Mum’ really has the time to sort out Dad’s shit too?

I do however have a sneaking suspicion that a list of "things Mums wish Dads knew" would be a lot less twee...

And a damn sight longer!!

Things mums wished Bounty knew:
How to communicate with grown, intelligent, individual people in a non patronising way

And not to bug mums immediately after having a baby without apparently understanding the word NO