I think it's time we put couples relations back in their places

This post was supposed to be about how I'm surrounded by idiots and in a way, it still is. A stern warning goes out immediately;

The following article will likely make me come across as a misogenyst, petty man. I want to assure all three of my readers that nothing could be further from the truth. I have the upmost respect for most women, their jobs, as well as how they have to constantly struggle to better their careers.

In fact my own wife is doing this better than I am, right now, and she is the woman I respect the most in the world.

It all began a few weeks ago, when at work we were discussing how our kids were getting overprotected from everything. I have a daughter that plays ice hockey - she's 10 years old - and who is forced to wear a full helmet with a facemask AND a mouthguard!

I said; WTF?? Why both? How exactly will you get a hockey stick in the face if you're wearing a full facemask?

Most men I asked agreed with me. But when it came to women it was a different story. They brought up urban legends about mouthguards preventing concussions, which is not the case, I've read a few articles and studies made that pointed out that no, they did not prevent concussions and if you fall on your head a mouthguard is irrelevant.

On the other hand a lady pointed out, what does it hurt if they wear both? And I was forced to agree.

But then, how far do we go? What's next? Goggles?

Naturally, THAT SAME WEEKEND at the hockey game, as I was crossing the ice with the other assistant coaches, to shake hands with the opposing team's kids, I noticed a kid wearing squash goggles under his helmet. Poor boy, he had on a full helmet with facemask, mouthguard and squash goggles.

Isch...in my day it would have been a whoop-ass waiting to happen.



Then last week, still at work, we were going on about the current Swine Flu crisis. Here in Quebec, what has happened is that the media, essentially television newschannels, radio stations and newspapers as well as internet news sites have all blown the Swine Flu "thing" out of proportion.

They will report every single person that has been hospitalized, died or had complications due to having had the Swine Flu, but we don't hear from the overwhelming majority of people who've had it, and recovered.

They will interview mostly women who have had it and told the cameras that it came with unbearable pain and suffering and that we should all burn our nipples off with a blowtorch rather than take the chance of having it, and then went on about their children having had a vaccine against it.

Naturally with such overwhelming media campaign, the health minister a man told us that a vaccine would be available to everyone that wanted it, in the fall. But he also pointed out that we should not panic.

That's when women got involved and demanded that all children between such and such age and with siblings from such other demographics should get the vaccine.

All the news anchors except one, a man took this to mean that we would be running out of the vaccine and that we would all die, Friday.

They even named the website www.pandemiequebec.gouv.qc.ca which means quite literally: "You will all die this Friday.com"

This brings me to my point, ok well not right away but soon I promise.

I have several friends who have small children, three people I work with, and other acquaintances. They all have the following trait in common, their spouses all women are "stay at home moms".

Yet, as "go to work dads" all of the aforementioned friends, co-workers and acquaintances are forced to get their asses home after work, night after night, prepare supper, make dishes, bathe their respective children, some of which are nine years old and should be able to wash themselves, basically all on the excuse that their spouse is "tired" from staying home all day and watching the kids.

Again; WTF????

I was going to cite myself as an example. I would have liked to help more when my daughter was a baby, unfortunately at that time I was working an evening shift and only got home at 10:30PM or so. I did what I could, got home, raised her from sleep, fed her once more then changed her and back to bed she went until the morning, I got up later than my wife did, helped a bit but after lunch I had to run off to work.

My wife is not a stay at home mom, she is a go to work mom. This is possibly the biggest reason I respect her for. She has incessantly cared for our daughter since her birth and only rarely asked me for anything.

That and everything else she touches and becomes awesome, except for me of course :)

Later, when our daughter was about three, I was laid off work and stayed at home for a few months, at that time I made sure that every night, when my wife made it home from work, the table was set, supper was ready, our daughter was picked up from daycare, bathed and her hair brushed. Ok maybe not the hair brushing part but still.

Another few years later I was home for almost a whole year again after being laid off work, and again I took care of everything except the washer and dryer. Supper was made, dishes were made, the house was spotless and granted, our daughter was in school by then, but I also had time to rebuild an old truck.

I was a stay at home dad for a while. Girls...it's NOT that difficult and tiresome.

Has it occurred to you that maybe you're just lazy?

Or do you enjoy whipping your respective spouses? Two of the guys I mention above are horribly pussy-whipped. Personally I wouldn't give their respective spouses the time of day if they asked, while wearing full glorious lingerie, shoving their tits at me, and sporting fuck me boots.

Not because they're ugly.

Because they're the reverse of misogynists. They clearly hate men. Misandry is it? Is it less frowned upon than misogynism?