Men are Idiotic Drunken Jealous Sex Beasts

I was reminded this week of a common stereotype about men in parenting circles which portrays fathers as mindless beasts that women need to learn how to handle correctly.

I was watching Bringing up Baby and a woman who was encouraging co-sleeping was attacked by the other “baby experts” on the grounds that the baby could be squished in the bed by parents rolling over them.

They claimed it was unsafe because “the man” might come home drunk and jump into bed oblivious to the little one. You see apparently men such as myself have no conscious control of own behaviour, I’m apparently just a gelatinous bag of beer and football who might spontaneously fall into a bar and roll home three sheets to the wind through no fault of my own.

“You’re doing great!” is all you need to say

I’m writing this because I often find myself getting angry about the way people sometime treat myself and my wife as parents.

Basically I feel that a lot of people have a difference of opinion with us about how we raise our child with regards to attachment parenting, co-sleeping and breastfeeding. That’s fine we’re all entitled to our opinions, however I’m starting to find the barbed remarks people make about it very hurtful.