particularly relating to spawning. men are mostly* afforded greater leeway with their reproductive choices (hi, oxymoron!):
9. If I choose not to have children, my masculinity will not be called into question.
10. If I have children but do not provide primary care for them, my masculinity will not be called into question.
11. If I have children and provide primary care for them, I’ll be praised for extraordinary parenting if I’m even marginally competent. (More).
12. If I have children and a career, no one will think I’m selfish for not staying at home.
13. If I seek political office, my relationship with my children, or who I hire to take care of them, will probably not be scrutinized by the press.
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39. If I have children with a wife or girlfriend, chances are she’ll do most of the childrearing, and in particular the most dirty, repetitive and unrewarding parts of childrearing.
40. If I have children with a wife or girlfriend, and it turns out that one of us needs to make career sacrifices to raise the kids, chances are we’ll both assume the career sacrificed should be hers.
(source: the male privilege)
now, these go both ways…there are plenty of men and women that single-handedly prove (or disprove) each of the above statements. gross generalizations are, as a requirement, generalizations. further reading through the list can make you do two things: a.) get completely angry and horrified by the depressing reality of the statements and their reflection on the world we live in or b.) give you food for thought. or both.
mine :