Reply #24: What a putz! What a goniff! What a schmuck! [View All]

[MrModerate]

Let me put a little lesson together since this guy thinks of himself as a teacher:

Having children is not trivial. It changes your life. You have to adapt to the needs of the child in ways you never imagined. If you're not an absolute moron, you'll work out ways to accommodate the needs and desires of all family members in some balanced fashion. Balance is key -- one family member (in this case the husband) is not the king, and trying to achieve balance while affording the husband some sort of kingly primacy will not work. Most people are able to modify their behavior based on context. Sometimes a breast is a breast, sometimes it's a feeding station. Sometimes a birth canal is a birth canal, sometimes it's something else entirely (please add imagination here).

Grownups make these contextual distinctions all the time -- have for the last few hundred thousand years or more, without the intervention of holier-than-thou twits like the author of this article.