Too Much Nick

“Had I been born just 20 or even 15 years earlier, I could have had the full domestic benefits of patriarchy, guiltlessly leaving the dishes in the sink and handing off our children to my wife as soon as they become inconvenient, without giving a second thought to the inequity. My father-in-law has never changed a dirty diaper in his life. Mothers in those days did sigh louder, and were expected to handle most of the parenting exclusively. But I was unfortunately raised in an era, and a cultural environment, that taught me to regard the concerns of the women in my life on equal terms with my own, and to feel badly about it when and if I fail that standard.”