There’s a scene of herself (dressed as a man) being applauded for taking his kid to the park.

You may think,

“No, Anthony she isn’t attacking single mothers! What are you crazy?! She’s attacking society’s double-standard! She’s attacking the fact that mothers are expected to do everything whereas the man can just take his kid to the park and be hailed as a hero!”

To which I say, EXACTLY!

Imagine going into work and everyone thought that your gender was so incompetent that they congratulated you just for showing up. It would be belittling!

And then let me ask you,

“Would you rather be a single mother or a single father?”

If you love your child then you would OBVIOUSLY rather be a single mother because you’re much more likely to get to raise and live with your child.

Whereas a single father is forced by the government to pay a certain percent of his income to the mother, which is demeaning in of itself because now the mother probably won’t even feel grateful to the father for his mandatory assistance, but you can be darn sure she’ll be grateful to her lawyer for taking it, and then on top of that as the father goes to pick up his kid for the weekend, maybe his kid would prefer to stay at home with his mom’s new BF or maybe as he gets older to go out and play with friends. It’s almost unconscionable to ponder how it would feel if the tables-were-turned.

A lot of men cannot put up with this permanent state of subjugation and so they decide that since they won’t be treated as an equal then they won’t stick around. In a way the kid may end up respecting their father more for taking off.

For example, Barack Obama’s book isn’t called, “Dreams from My Mother.”

So the ONLY way to end the double-standard of men being hailed as heroes for doing the simplest parenting tasks is to end the legal double-standard where fathers are treated as inherently inferior to mothers.

Equal before the law!

Taylor Swift is slamming single mothers because she is slamming a byproduct of single motherhood.

If Taylor Swift doesn’t want to see fathers hailed as heroes for simply taking their kid to the park then by extension she must want to see fathers and mothers treated equally by…

in the case of a separation (which for the sake of the child should be a last resort) removing gender from the equation for who the child will primarily live with,

making custody laws more equal,

and perhaps by abolishing child support (or at least discourage the practice) because men (and women) should have a right to their money.

If these changes were put in place I promise you we’d actually see less single mothers and therefore less poor children in America.

Good intentions can create negative unintended consequences.

If you tell women you’ll give them tax breaks, free healthcare, free schooling, child support, and a guarantee she’ll get custody of her kid so long as she can stay out of a crack den then by the time her 30s roll around, and the pressure of biology and society mounts, she’d almost be crazy not to have a kid!

But if we made the laws more equal then my sisters would have to think a bit more deeply about the man she’s about to breed with. She’ll have to judge the man’s character,

“Is he going to take off on me? Is he going to refuse to pay for his child? Or is an honest, decent man that even if we separated one day he’d still step up and take care of his child?”

If a woman can’t answer YES on the latter question then she’s being deeply irresponsible by bringing into the world a mini version of him.

She chose to create a child with a bad man. She should have had higher standards. Period.

Here’s the deal: Men are becoming boys because as the government plays more of a role in raising their children due to a few bad apples then men as a whole have even less of a reason to be responsible. Why should we be? When we are being trained by the government and our culture to just focus on satisfying our own wants and needs. But if you want a society of good men then you must trust men to do the right thing.