I recently stumbled across a video from a website called Juice Box Jungle, a parenting website featuring online episodes for parenting advice. The episode that caught my eye was called “Daddy Doesn’t Do It Right”. I knew I had to watch, even with a growing feeling of apprehension. I had a feeling that it would be the typical “Dad is such a deadbeat, Mom has to do everything” video, and it did not fail to disappoint. Check it out:

They even had a follow-up video detailing more things that Daddy does wrong:

At first, these videos showed some promise. It was all about moms keeping their criticisms in check, and how they tended to overreact about everything. But the more I watched the more annoyed I got. It still portrayed the usual inept, clueless, idiotic dad. It still gave women the same old advice. These were tips and tricks on how to manipulate your husband into doing things the right way. Women talked about how much better it was to stop criticizing… even if they were “making their lips bloody from biting them so much”, as one mom said. Men do things so badly, that it is almost impossible for the super-savvy, smart, caretaker mom to not jump in and take over. They tell moms to just let it be, because “what you don’t see won’t kill you”… because, surely, when dads are alone with their little ones they will inevitably do idiotic things like putting them on leashes while they snooze on the couch or share a Budweiser with their baby, or have no clue how to feed your toddler, or dress them in boxers and a tuxedo jacket.

Rather than telling these moms to step back and appreciate the hands-on dads they have, these videos are reinforcing the stereotypes of the together, sophisticated, smart mom and the clueless, lazy, inept dad. Instead of telling moms to change their perspectives of their husbands as incompetent losers who need to be manipulated like dogs, they encourage it. Hey moms, it’s a genius idea to praise your husband for a few minutes just to get some alone time at the spa getting a manicure! Of course, you couldn’t possibly praise him just for the sake of praising him, right? You only praise your husband to get something from him. Men aren’t the head of their households or even an authority figure. And it’s wise for moms to treat their husbands as no wiser or more capable than their children are.

This male-bashing needs to stop. Women are showing absolutely no respect for their husbands, and they wonder why it is that their husbands resent them or refuse to help out. Wives no longer treat their husbands as the father who is on equal grounds with them in the authority, wisdom, and morality department who can help raise their children to be responsible, mature adults.

Thanks to feminism, women have moved into the “male” world, and while they claim they would just love some help in the “female” world (meaning home and baby), they won’t actually cede any territory in that department either. Women today want total dominance, and rather than letting their men be equal partners, they’ve eroded them into being nothing more than the help.

And here is yet another parenting website encouraging that. Shame on them.