Eric Siu discusses what happens when men become stay-at-home dads, exploring how power dynamics in relationships shift when traditional gender roles reverse. The conversation reveals that behaviors like leaving a partner for someone younger aren't inherently male or female, but driven by power itself.
He divorces and goes off with the 23-year-old secretary. Where 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. 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.
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 them 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, he divorces and goes off with the 23-year-old secretary or whatever it is. But women can do that as well. Yeah. I think it's actually a function of power as opposed to really a gendered bias.
