The other day, I was in the lunch-room at work, while a new father described his role in the delivery room: “It seems the job of the father is to stand there and just apologise for everything.”<\/p>\n
Just in the interest of making conversation, I made some amiable, perhaps mildly sexist, response along the lines of that job wasn’t limited to the delivery room, but in fact was a job that started on the wedding day.<\/p>\n
Everyone in the room looked up at me suddenly and tittered nervously. It wasn’t the response I expected, so I engaged my brain and played back what I had just said.<\/p>\n
I think my exact words were: “That’s not the job of the father – that’s the job of the husband!”<\/p>\n
Oh great! In an amiable and conversational style, in front of a group of his peers, I had just accused this guy’s wife of being unfaithful, and him attending the birth of someone else’s child.<\/p>\n
For the good of others, and for my own personal safety, I am thinking of becoming a mime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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