Adam Ricketson

In the spirit of Mychal Smith’s call for men to listen to women, I want to solicit opinions on how I (a man) should raise my sons not to contribute to sexism. While searching this site, I was not able to find any discussion that seemed relevant. Many of the commentaries focus on conservative, patriarchal fathers — but I’m a ideologically progressive parent, and I don’t see much discussion of what people like me need to be aware of. I had thought that a good rule of thumb would be to treat all my children the “same” regardless of sex/gender, but I ended up with twin boys.

Obviously, a big issue will be the example that I set in my relationship with their mother. I don’t want to get into the details of our relationship, but we have settled on the “traditional” splitting of responsibilities, where I work for $ and she takes care of the kids.