most men wouldnt want to be parents if they had to be mothers the expectations of fatherhood are by default much less than of motherhood. becoming a father,your expectations are essentially "be semi-present and dont abandon your child"

as a mother, your entire identity and existence becomes wrapped in your child. you have to put down your hobbies and life to take care of a thing thats attached to you basically 24/7, along with household managing.

And then as the child gets older, theres all the management that comes with it. Sports, doctors office, school. All things that father's are expected to be minimally involved in, but mothers are expected to have total control of.

ETA: i thinm its really funny how men are immediatly jumping to say how much they would LOVE to be a stay at home parent! which im sure you would!
Except most women aren't stay at home parents, they work to support their family as much as the father does, and economically being a stay at home parent isnt conceivable.

Quote:Why does every father here think being a mom automatically means staying at home ? Most women work these days

Quote:Yeah, I don't get it. Almost every mom i know including myself is holding down a fulltime federal job and has multiple kids.

Quote:Exactly. And they still do all the things OP pointed out while many fathers - in my experience not as many as a few decades ago - are semi-present.

Quote:I don’t know any semi present fathers really. Not saying they don’t exist but where do yous live that you all seem to think this is a common occurrence?

Quote:I live in a very liberal area. I dont know a single man who planned their kids birthday party or plan the playdates.

Quote:Weird how the comments all jump immediately to “i’d love to stay at home all day!”Nobody jumping in saying “i’d love to carry for 9 months, give birth, work 40+/weeks and do all the child rearing and household management too!” 😆

Quote:More proof that they have absolutely no concept of all of the invisible labor, hardship on the body and mind, and full depth of what parenting entails.

Quote:Leaving Maga’s weekly online support group isn’t for people in Maga – it’s for the people who love them. That includes spouses, adult children, parents, siblings, friends and extended family who have watched someone close to them become “not the person who they once were”, said facilitator Julianna Forlano.

Forlano, a therapist, has worked with families of people with narcissistic personality disorder and in addiction recovery, and said the ruptures she sees every week aren’t really about ideology. “What’s happening in families and in marriages, and between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons has to do with behavior,” she said.

Forlano and her group borrow a framework used in addiction and recovery circles, treating the psychological grip of constant fear-based media and conspiracies like a disease. The mechanism is neurobiological, she said: people who consume a steady diet of fear narratives become fearful in general, adopt a “with us or against us” mentality and start treating loved ones as threats.

“The mind is functioning as a dope seeker,” she said, craving the next piece of alarming news the way an addicted brain craves its next hit. Forlano is careful to note that holding certain political beliefs doesn’t make someone diseased; the compulsive, threat-seeking pattern layered on top of those beliefs is what the group tries to address.

Quote:Picture this: A loosely organized cabal of obscenely wealthy tech moguls aim to overthrow democracy and replace it with a corporatist dictatorship. It would make for a good political thriller. It’s a far grimmer read in nonfiction.

Gil Duran, a journalist and former aide to Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, and Kamala Harris, has spent the last two years tracking extremist strains of authoritarianism in Silicon Valley through his newsletter, The Nerd Reich.

That premise is now the central thesis of a new book. “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy (opens in new tab),” out Aug. 18, catalogs the rise of what Duran characterizes as an ideological movement meant to overthrow liberal democracy and replace it with a tech-led oligarchy.

Quote:People often give me credit for coming up with it, but I didn’t. After I wrote a story about Balaji Srinivasan (opens in new tab), which went super viral, he started attacking me for several days. Then a pretty well-known figure from the crypto world reached out to me over DM and said, “You know, we’ve been calling these guys the Nerd Reich for years.” And I was like, “What?” The URL was available, so I rebranded my newsletter as the Nerd Reich and announced it in dramatic fashion.

To me, the most important thing is that this is not a name I came up with. This is a name their own peers use. They are telling people what they are doing. They want people to know because they’re evangelizing to bring in more believers.

Quote:Why are women 25% less likely to use artificial intelligence tools than men? New research debunks the notion that the gender gap is primarily due to women’s lack of AI skills, interest or access. Women’s hesitancy to use AI is instead a rational response to a competency penalty that women face when using AI in the workplace.

The latest evidence of the competence penalty that women workers incur when using AI comes from a 2026 study by Zehra Chatoo, founder of Code For Good Now and former strategist at Meta. The study found that women who submit resumes created with AI assistance are evaluated as less competent and less trustworthy than men who submit identical AI-assisted resumes. To the evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative.

Quote:Impatience is growing among volunteers and donors “about the cultural sclerosis” inside Democratic organizations, Yasmin Radjy, the executive director of the progressive group Swing Left, told me. “The question we hear over and over is, What are Democrats doing differently than in 2024 to make sure we win?”

Quote:A separate 2025 study by McKinsey & Co. also found that women tend to prefer stable investments and adopt a more cautious approach to their money, prioritizing long-term financial security.

“One of the biggest misconceptions about women investors is that they are emotional, and that is just not the case,” said certified financial planner Alex Roca, the host of Fidelity’s Women Talk Money, a financial education initiative.

Quote:Sheela-na-gigs are stone carvings found in churches across Western Europe, most of which exist in Ireland. They depict women exposing their genitalia, mainly dating to the 11th to 14th centuries when Christianity was the predominant religion in Western Europe. This makes Sheela-na-gigs a bit of a mystery, but the carvings have been recognized as rare examples of positive depictions of women’s sexuality in Medieval art.

Quote:The Sheela-na-gig’s origin story varies just as much as its folk etymology. There is an Irish story of Queen Medb. The Queen goes to battle, only to find she is outnumbered on the battlefield. In response, she raised her skirts to the enemy army and displayed her vulva, as a Sheela-na-gig does, and the enemies were so confused by the gesture that they turned around and went home to their mothers.