Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in a situation where your male partner receives an inordinate amount of praise for tasks you do all day, every day? Yep, lots of hands going up. Unfortunately, there are many incredibly unfair double standards in parenting that still exist in 2022. And this illustrator’s comic perfectly highlights the hypocrisy.
Mary Catherine Starr is a Massachusetts-based artist, yoga teacher, and mama of two behind the Instagram account @momlife_comics. Recently, she posted a series of comics titled “An Illustrated Guide To The Double Standards Of Parenting” to point out the differences in the ways society views moms when they do something vs. dads when they do that same thing.
There is so much guilt and shame associated with picking up a bag of chicken nuggets and french fries for your little ones. The morality society places on different types of food is an enormous detriment to everyone in general, including moms. Sometimes we don’t feel like cooking. Sometimes our kids literally won’t eat anything else. Sometimes, we all just want fast food because it tastes delicious! But dads don’t face the same criticisms that moms do when they “resort” to happy meals.
