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Kay-El's avatar

I was married, had a great career and two wonderful children but my hubs was a fuckwit who I divorced before he could completely screw us over. Ha! Father Knows Best, it wasn’t. Ross can just shut his fucking pie hole.

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Bridget Collins's avatar

Let's start here.

Both of the sources Douhat cites are highly conservative Christians who claim the problem with families is that women are choosing "careerism" over marriage and that since young people aren't going to church enough, they can't find partners.

(When have you ever heard a man's choices include careerism?)

This is the group Wilcox works for (as well as the American Enterprise Institute).

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/institute-for-family-studies/

They both have written about it before. Since one of their articles claims "married women with kids are the happiest people in America" I'm going to assume they're sampling 1950s sitcom characters.

Next -- does neo-patriarchy mean all of the privileges with none of the responsibilities? Because one of the reasons you listened to a patriarch is because he was a metaphorical CEO of the family and decisions were made based on what improved the family as a whole.

Last, who looks at Mango baby with his hair piece and lifts and schlubby body and thinks masculine?

Chris Christie may be fat but by God, he looks like a guy who would have your back. Mango baby looks like you could chase him off with a frying pan.

And I don't even like Chris Christie.

Tim Walz looks like a stand up guy with a sense of humor. Harris could have picked Shapiro or Mark Kelly or Andy Beshear and we would all have reason to be happy. (Shapiro and Kelly have both sent me emails encouraging me to donate to Harris and "their good friend Tim" )

But Tim Walz is making us laugh.

Here's to the men who do their damn jobs and still make us laugh.

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