As a male who has spent the past 20 years fighting the endless office politics and climbing the corporate ladder, it is a fantasy of mine to just wake up in the morning and have nothing else to do but take care of the kids and do a little housework. Call me "effeminate" if you want but after two decades of the rat race, I can honestly say that the workplace is overrated.
Who cares whether it is the man or woman who stays home with the kids? So long as they don't go on the government dole and become a drag on society, who cares how they decide to work things out?
So if my wife wants to go off and play at being Carly Fiorina in some big corporation, I say all the power to her. I'd be happy to pick up a broom and learn how to use the damn dishwasher. And I'll bake the baddest cookies in town. Hell, I'll even invite you all to some Tupperware parties. I'll be Martha Stewart on steroids.
If NOT working a full-time+ corporate job is effeminate, I sure as hell have been emasculated!!!
I have a Engineering degree, Series 6/7 License, Professional Inspectors License and chose to "give it all up" to be "Mr Mom".
My wife brings home the bacon (70k+) while I work at home trading stocks (MSEP is HOT!!), providing residential inspection services locally and proof read legal docs- all for a measly 40k+ a year. 80% of the housework is mine. Kids are out of school at 03:15 and receive the remainder of my days attention.
I feel bad for these metro males out humping corporate ladders for a "living". If it makes them feel fulfilled, who am I to judge...let men be men.
Does my wife think anything less of me since we worked out this arrangement????? Don't know, never had the need to ask.