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Re:"Lighten up" by chunkybacon on Thursday March 22, 2012 @04:24AM (#3738902)
Maybe the downmodders are right in a "by the books" sense, but try to accuse someone of sexism when they say "men don't make good homekeepers" and see how far you get. Practically speaking, it doesn't work. Also I'll add that this weird feature seems only to exist for white people in Western countries.
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Re:"Lighten up" by nknight on Thursday March 22, 2012 @10:18AM (#3739764)
I know several male "homekeepers" who would be very offended by that extremely sexist remark.
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Re:"Lighten up" by morestuff on Thursday March 22, 2012 @12:21PM (#3740479)
And yet, the US Census regards fathers as child care, not designated parents.

http://blogsallie.4cforchildren.org/2012/02/13/census-bureau...

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Re:"Lighten up" by Groxx on Saturday March 31, 2012 @03:34PM (#3781296)
I don't think you'll find any arguments that the US government doesn't have insane double standards and sexist laws. But I doubt you can make that kind of claim for any government, really, since they're constructed by people - to get rid of it, you'd have to get rid of it in people, and I'm not aware of that ever having happened.
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