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"Among the Spaniards, the women after the birth of fa child must tend their husbands, putting them to bed instead of going themselves... The husband is fed and pampered by his wife, and receives his neighbor's compliments and praise for his hard work."

"The custom is that... as soon as a woman has given birth, she gets up from the bed... Her husband gets into the bed and keeps the infant that is born with him... All the friends and relations come to see him and bring him great joy and entertainment... while the wife does all the duty of the house and waits on her lord[/husband], taking him food and drink...

In northern Brazil...[the husband] gets into the bed and the wife returns to work as usual; then all the people of the village come to see and visit him lying in his bed, consoling him for the trouble and pain he had in producing this child."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/eth.1973.1.1.02a00030/pdf

"Hindus show particular attention to the man, not to the woman, when a child is born... This is a variety of the worldwide custom of 'couvade'... He eats as good food as he can afford, and his wife is expected to go about her work immediately after delivery, as if nothing had happened...

Among the Koravars... as soon as the pains of delivery come upon a pregnant woman, she is taken to an outlying shed, and left alone to live or die... No help is given to her for 28 days... Pollution from birth is held to be worse than that from death... When the child is born... it is given to the father... who has everything needful brought to him...

One of the men examined by me explained that the man's life was more valuable than that of the woman, and that the husband, being a more important factor in the birth of the child than the wife, deserves to be better looked after."

I can't say I disagree. I think this would be the ideal arrangement after birth. I think the only "people" (if you can call them that) who'd disagree are the mysandrist feminists.

This may sound like a crazy rant because I have had a fever for 6 days, my sleep schedule is totally whacked, and I am awake at 2 AM watching a home renovation program on TV.

Anyway, at the end of the show, the contractor is showing how he spent $130,000 of this couple's money and gave them some changes that weren't entirely what they wanted. But, of course, the couple is saying that the contractor was right and they are glad he did what he thought should be done instead of listening to them. Then, the husband says, "It's not just spending money to renovate a house; it's an investment in who we are."

Doesn't that quote sound cool? How intense! But. . . wait a minute! Just what the fuck does it mean? The house is who they are? Living in the house is who they are? If they had to move to a different house, they would be somebody else (like an episode on The Twilight Zone?) That smooth, slick sounding talk that really falls apart when you analyze it just drives me nuts. How many people fall for that drivel?

Even worse is the copy that we usually hear at least every 15 minutes in TV ads. Attorney ad: "We're on your side from beginning to end, so you know you've got the best representation!" Actually, hiring one of the TV lawyers doesn't guarantee that you've got the best and many of them are only marginally competent. Those attorneys spend money on slick advertising but they are far from the best.

Obviously, people who write ad copy or TV scripts count on you not listening closely and critically. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't listen closely and critically, especially if you are a member of the 99% of the population whose purchasing decisions are influenced by advertising, or whose political decisions are influenced by what you hear on the major media outlets.

So, are you listening closely? Are you listening carefully and actually evaluating the legitimacy of the claims being made. Do you become more skeptical every time you hear this kind of nonsense repeated?