Random Thoughts

[brynndragon]

You know, I would like to be a dad someday, but I don't think I would enjoy being a mom. However, I don't think I'd have much choice in the matter. So not so much with having kids, unless I end up with someone who actively wants to do the mom thing.

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re: dad role and not the mom role

[etherial.livejournal.com]

But there is no dad role any more than there's a mom role. There's all kinds of dads and moms out there. So, I guess I'm asking, what is the advantage of calling yourself a dad over a mom?

I can see how calling yourself a dad helps challenge people's expectations of your relationship with your children and can force them to open their eyes a little to the fact that the maternal parent doesn't always need to be the primary parent. On the other hand, I can see how calling yourself a mom and refusing to do the stereotypical mom things can also accomplish this.

Re: dad role and not the mom role

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

My words are not satisfying to me either yet, but right now this is the best way I can figure for explaining my feelings and intuition on this subject. It's also likely to be the most minimal, straight-forward way of expressing it - the only improvement I can think to make is adding the word "working" before "mom" to indicate that I'm not just talking about working vs. staying at home.