{"id":395,"date":"2007-11-05T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2007-11-05T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T12:37:00","slug":"men-in-bjorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/11\/05\/men-in-bjorns\/","title":{"rendered":"Men in Bjorns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marc (aka Feminist Dad<\/a>) posted a comment here the other day in response to my Skirt essay<\/a> which I’d like to share, cuz I’m going to be writing\/thinking a lot about this topic over the next few months for a project I’m working on, and cuz I think his comment is really interesting. Writes Marc:<\/p>\n

It’s funny, I have been that sole guy in the audience several times, but I usually don’t think to ask this question [the question being the one I mention in my Skirt piece, “what does contemporary feminism have to say to a new generation of men?” – GWP]. <\/span> Before I was a Dad, I thought there was a new generation of transformed men. Now that I stay at home part time with my daughter, I have entered a decidedly Mom’s World. I now think the public role for men has shifted to make them *appear* more sensitive.<\/span> Take for example, the Baby Bjorn. Usually men wear them – at least in pictures – it’s their public role of baby carrying. Does this translate to more time spent at home doing housework or child care? I don’t think so, and as you say in your article, the research doesn’t support it. We seem to have a new generation of men, but one where public and symbolic caring is the norm.<\/span> Finally, feminism should have nothing to say *to* the men. If men are feminists, then what practices can they offer to support their sentiment?<\/p>\n

<\/span>(Thank you, Marc!)<\/p>\n

I found it interesting that on the Baby Bjorn site’s homepage, it’s a dad wearing the bjorn \ud83d\ude42 Public and symbolic caring and carrying? Or emblem of transforming roles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marc (aka Feminist Dad) posted a comment here the other day in response to my Skirt essay which I’d like to share, cuz I’m going to be writing\/thinking a lot about this topic over the next few months for a project I’m working on, and cuz I think his comment is really interesting. Writes Marc: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[876],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-men"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}