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CAUTION - RANT ALERT !

Woah, what happened to this thread!! I'm asking for perspective when my kids tell me they're lonely, feeling left out as they get invited to few play dates, and I'm see little reciprocity from others to host.... then the conversation turns into a sex centered debate on morality and maturity. It pisses me off that this is where minds go because I'm and SAHD posting, that gender makes a difference in non-sexual situations. Not that I'm ignorant, I know to be a total gentleman and careful to notice anything coming at me too.

I'm definitely NOT, "jonesing for alone time with moms" as someone phrased it. It's heartening to see both side equally represented and the immature sex-obsessed sociapaths are in a minority. It's just more stereotypes, the creepy homewrecker SAHD who can't keep it in his pants, home alone-wives who can resist throwing themselves at the nearest guy, the melodrama of marriages being threatened by the wife having infrequent time with a male... good grief!! I have to assume, those who think like that are immature, have issues, aren't fully grown up or undeveloped people themselves.

Sadly it may be true, that perspective is part of what I have been seeing all these years. While I'm not going to be missing out on spending time with anyone who thinks like that... but I won't accept that is a reason for my kids to be sidelined.

My new goal is host as many play dates as it takes for my kids not to feel excluded.[/quote]

WOHM with SAHH here and this made me smile. Welcome to sexism, OP. IME being a SAHD helps men understand it in a new way. For example, when the world is treating you a certain way, you don't know if you're being treated differently because of your gender or because you are you.  The reason this thread spun off is it's not possible to know if sexism/bias against you being male is behind what you're experiencing. But I do hope it helps you to hear that the lack of reciprocity in playdate hosting does not HAVE to be gender-related. [/quote]

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