#also: if we can't talk about STRUCTURAL INJUSTICES in parenting/gender roles then what's the use of anything

[criticallyacclaimedstranger]

One thing that struck me: We need more fathers who hang out with their childfree/less friends WITH their kids.

When I want to meet a friend who has a baby or toddler, we have to "make do with the circumstances" and hang out in their home, the park, or take a walk with the stroller. When my friends' husbands want to hang out with their friends, they go out in the evening, go drinking or to the movies, or dinner, or to the gym, or whatever. They don't go for long walks with the stroller and just talk.

It's really unfair, not just in the relationship between the parents, but to their friends, because it signals that his friends are worth more than hers.