Why do some people think that the media favors hard working moms over dads?

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Just FTR: I know of both moms and dad who work equally as hard, just as I know of bone lazy parents, too.
Is this so or is it just another insecurity of anti-feminists....

Yes, I know there's a similar question, but I can't answer since I'm blocked. Apparently the person only wants to hear what they want to hear...as for me I'm open to answers whether I agree or disagree.
 
Because it does. Dads get the short end of the stick all over the media. Fatherhood gets denigrated and it never quite matches up in value to motherhood. It sucks. I'm a woman and I still find this very frustrating - fathers are every bit as important as mothers, and it bugs me to see them maligned and passed over.

PS -

"Yes, I know there's a similar question, but I can't answer since I'm blocked. Apparently the person only wants to hear what they want to hear...as for me I'm open to answers whether I agree or disagree."

I TOTALLY respect this!! Good for you.
 
Look, when you look at the way they are generally portrayed in fiction, a mother who works hard is trying to give her family the best, and may just be out of touch with her family because she is trying to give them more than she ever had. She works hard, and is a good parent because of it.

A man who works hard is emotionally abusive towards his family, ignoring them, and only working for the sake of work itself (which is apparently valueless to the family) and so many plots revolve around his learning to care about work less and about family more. Just ignore the part where he is working so his family has the best future they can get, or that raising a family without any goddamn money is not conducive to a happy family. No, him working hard means he is being a terrible parent.
 
I haven't actually heard the media do a serious piece about hard working dads or moms lately. Although with the advent of Twilight I seem to be hearing a lot about homemakers. As though it were a surprise that a stay at home parent might have interests that extend past the domestic sphere.
 
No it's true. We roll out the red carpet for working moms. Men don't require the same pampering. We don't expect someone to say thanks or highlight our accomplishments.

I guess women need that type of fluff. I'm telling you this is part of the message of self-indulgence. Women tend to think their issues, problems and responsibilities are big and worse than everyone elses. They carry on with the crazy emotions and nacassistic behavior and men solve problems twice as fast because we have to make up for the slacking women do.
 
Because the media does favor moms over dads to a large extent. I'll give you one example. The local paper here has a section every Thursday called "Spotlight on Mom." It's basically a section where they'll interview a local mother about her job, raising kids, etc. There'll be a bit more about moms in general too. So what day does the "Spotlight on Dad" section run? Trick question, there is no such section.

Or, maybe we'll look at another example. On Mother's Day, there were the usual articles on celebrating moms and such. On Father's Day? I didn't even realize it was Father's Day until I got to the comics section. The comics told me it was Father's Day more than the regular paper did! Something is seriously wrong there. I guess it's better than what they ran last year, when almost every article bemoaned all the dads who don't do things right and there was more criticism of dads than moms.
 
yes, but maybe not the media so much as advertisers

men are somewhat immune to advert suggestions, so they are not generally targeted except in beer and food [fast food, particularly] and automobile and investment commercials
 
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