Eric Siu examines why stay-at-home dads create tension in relationships. The speakers argue that women often shift into traditionally masculine roles when their partners stay home, and that some abandon these relationships once kids are grown. They frame it as a power dynamic, not gender itself.
The guy becomes a stay-at-home dad, and then the woman holds all the cards, and the woman's actually put into their masculine, which I find— my mom was put into that before. She's like, yeah, I would rather be feminine, but when I'm put into my masculine, I'm just like upset the whole time. It's interesting to see.
And I've also seen that myself, and they often behave, these women, like the kind of men that we typically revile in our culture. which is that they'll get the man to stay at home and take care of the kids. And once they reach a certain age, they cut him loose, which is generally what most women find most despicable in certain men, is that once they become successful and after the woman has raised his children, after she has devoted her youth and her fertility and the best years of her life to him, then he divorces and goes off with the 23-year-old secretary or whatever it is. Yeah. But women can do that as well. I think it's actually a function of power as opposed to really a gender bias.
