Creative Minority Reader: Fathers Can't Get no Respect

A new father realizes that everybody assumes that he is an inferior parent by virtue of being male. Welcome to the club:

I do notice that wherever I go, people will tell me I’m an inferior parent by virtue of being male. It’s a buried assumption, not a stated position, or they’d never say it. I think.

The old man who says for Liam (nobody can let a baby say nothing, even me), “I want mamma!” as I’m getting out the bottle. Thank God Liam isn’t so picky!