Entry #7 Daddy?

The very first thing I noticed was how well organized the site was. As I looked through the site, I realized that in bold words the site said it was about "bashing" men and emphasizing their stereotypes. As I read a little deeper, I found some post by men ridiculing their own stereotypes to emphasize how wrong they really are. To think that the post are by men and have such an organized site when supposedly they are lazy and messy makes it a bit humorous to me. Although I looked at various post on the Dumb Men site, I was specifically interested in one post I read titled 8 Stupid Things You Should Stop Saying to Dads by Aaron Gouveia. In his article, he informs the audience that he himself is a father, so I decided to keep that in mind when reading this. What the author is trying to do with this post is remind the audience to always think before they speak. He gives examples about some of the things he has been told before that he thinks are just insulting and straight up stupid. The reason I was so intrigued by this post was because of the sincerity and emotion he puts into his writing. Some of the examples he gives is "Looks like dad dressed the baby", "What do YOU do all day?", "That's not how you do it. Here, let me show you". Gouveia, being a father feels like a lot of the time these things are said unintentionally. However, he does find them insulting and as if his parenthood is being attacked. I found it funny how we never really consider that men have feelings. But, like we have learned this past week, society expects them to be a certain way, and now it is as if there is no way of picturing them a different way than as macho men. The author did a very good job at not hiding his emotions. He is obviously upset and insulted at the fact that just for being a male, he is immediately going to be a bad, clueless father. The purpose of this post was to ask for a fathers day gift, and that was to stop being prejudged as a whole just for being a man. He leaves the audience with a lesson; if it might insult someone, don't say it.