My dear fellow childfree people, this is the kind of thing that really rubs me the wrong way. I think we're all used to whiny, lazy, entitlement-minded moomies who have nothing in their empty heads to think about but babies, babies, and MORE babies, but these types of selfish, stupid men are also to blame.
The men on TDC make my blood boil. They act like children whose minds never progressed past the sixth grade.
Someone needs to sit this man down on a lap so that the facts of life can be explained in small words to him. This is not a man...this is a mamby-pamby, fragile idiot who wasn't sure of his stance on a life-altering issue and wasn't able to stand up for what he wanted, or be pro-active in preventing birth *himself* by using protection. He got 'suckered' into the whole 'fatherhood deal'? Give me a fucking break....did he just not have an opinion on the matter at all when this woman was talking about it and planning it? He probably sat right back on the old leather chair with a beer in his hand and said, "Sure babe, whatever you want" and never once thought about it in a meaningful way. And now that the kid is here, he wants everyone to feel like he was the poor victim who got roped in by his evil wife, when really he just wanted nothing to do with it.
And another thing, and I think we discussed this topic before - I'd just like to personally ask the guy what he expected childbirth to be like. It involves blood, massive amounts of bodily fluid, tearing, etc (it IS an intense struggle, I can give the mommies that one; I sure as HELL don't want to experience it). It does NOT involve rainbows, kittens, or fairy dust...yeah, some parts of it are gross. I'd like to see him lie there and pass a kid out and make it through the entire ordeal without passing some gas. These guys need to GROW UP. Life isn't an issue of Maxim where every little thing is 'pretty' and airbrushed to smooth and twinkling perfection. REAL LIFE is not always as attractive as we would like. Real life is real, you're going to see some unpleasant things, and you're going to get your hands a little dirty, princess. That's why I get irritated at the fathers who watch the birthing process and complain about how 'gross' it is. What the fuck did you think it was going to be like? And for fuck's sake, all you're doing is STANDING there. Listen here, father-of-the-year....be happy you aren't the one doing the pushing and have the ability to stand there whining.
Yes, there are nasty women who pull 'oopses' on men sometimes, and there are women who work as hard as they can to coerce a male into sharing their child-centric world view. But men like this, who have a kid and then whine and complain about it after it's all said and done were involved in some way, too. It's not like they were sweet little innocents who had the wool pulled over their eyes. They weren't strong enough to know what they wanted out of life, they couldn't be bothered to be pro-active about their own birth control, and they donated their sperm most happily. The woman didn't immaculately conceive. These guys were involved in at least SOME form of contribution. And now that the kid slides down the chute, all of a sudden he wants a free pass out, and it's all the evil woman's fault for talking him into it? I don't think so, pork chop. Methinks the sperm donor doth protesteth too much.
"Oh, boo hoo hoo! Pity me, for now that the kid is here I have decided I want no part of it! Cry me a river! Childbirth was not as aesthetically pleasing as I thought it would be, my wife had the audacity to pass gas, so now I will find my wife unattractive because of it even though I had no problem actually impregnating her! Oh, woe is me!!"
Emasculated little shit.