God Says Dads Can Suck It

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:02:00 GMT

I'm usually pretty quick to get my dander up over any perceived slights or breaches of social decorum, but how does one respond to this?

John Hagee, God's right-hand man, says stay-at-home dads are going straight to hell.

"For others its laziness, you're too lazy to work and support your children. I'm talking about men. You call yourself Mr. Mom, God calls you a bum. St. Paul says you are worse than an infidel. Let me look you right in the eye and tell you that Hell is your future home if all you do is sit on your backside and let your wife support you in your life."

While it's true, I do sit around all day while managing a household and chasing after a 2-year-old -- it's especially annoying when my daughter interrupts mah shows -- but I still have to wonder: God doesn't have bigger issues than sending me to hell?

But more importantly, is this what Hagee thinks parents do? Sit on their backsides? I'd love to see the reaction if he said moms are lazy and sit on their backsides all day while their husbands support them. What would Jesus say to that, mother fucker?

Today Show Uncovers Obvious: Dads Stay Home, Too

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:01:00 GMT

At-home dadism is in the news again. And while Rebel Dad's Brian Reid did an excellent job, as always, explaining the life of a stay-at-home dad on the Today Show this morning, the "news" segment leading into his interview had a lot to be desired.

Dads staying home to raise the kids is nothing new, and yet the Today Show breathlessly "breaks" this story with a my-goodness, my-golly form of college-style hack journalism that really should have been aired years ago -- after a good rewrite, of course. But there it is today -- one more comparison to Mr. Mom and one more good yuck about kids taking over the playgrounds while dads sit on the sidelines and talk sports.

Please.

Any good journalist covered this trend -- much better -- years ago. (Census figures show the trend of dads staying home has been growing steadily since 2002 -- does it really take the Today Show six years to get its head out of its ass?) Maybe tomorrow the Today Show will get around to spotlighting important, up-to-date society movements like parachute pants and Tab. Coverage like this makes it difficult for dads to fit in at playgrounds and playgroups, because it perpetuates an underlying notion that they don't know what the hell they're doing -- and that's just wrong.

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God Says Dads Can Suck It

Today Show Uncovers Obvious: Dads Stay Home, Too