I like the part where he says:
I like the part where he says:
A lot of the stuff that women were talking about — what they deal with on a daily basis — I was like, "I've never seen that, so I think this might be a little inflated." But I was so completely wrong. ...
Even if it's painful for yourself. I've had to sit down these last few weeks and I'm going through my head — and I hope every other guy is doing this, of not even, like, physical acts — but, "Was there a remark that I made? Was there a way that I put things?" You're just constantly now thinking of that.
I see a lot of people saying, "Oh what, men are now supposed to triple-, quadruple-, quintuple-think everything that they say and do?" And you go, "Well, clearly women have had to double-, triple-, quintuple- ... think and say everything that they do, and look at all that they can achieve and do with that load on them! Can we maybe take a little bit of the slack? Will that be OK, Mr. Alpha Male?"
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/27/566720304/patton-oswalt-falling-in-love-again-was-like-getting-hit-by-lightning-twice
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/27/566720304/patton-oswalt-falling-in-love-again-was-like-getting-hit-by-lightning-twice
A lot of the stuff that women were talking about — what they deal with on a daily basis — I was like, "I've never seen that, so I think this might be a little inflated." But I was so completely wrong. ...
Even if it's painful for yourself. I've had to sit down these last few weeks and I'm going through my head — and I hope every other guy is doing this, of not even, like, physical acts — but, "Was there a remark that I made? Was there a way that I put things?" You're just constantly now thinking of that.
I see a lot of people saying, "Oh what, men are now supposed to triple-, quadruple-, quintuple-think everything that they say and do?" And you go, "Well, clearly women have had to double-, triple-, quintuple- ... think and say everything that they do, and look at all that they can achieve and do with that load on them! Can we maybe take a little bit of the slack? Will that be OK, Mr. Alpha Male?"
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/27/566720304/patton-oswalt-falling-in-love-again-was-like-getting-hit-by-lightning-twice
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/27/566720304/patton-oswalt-falling-in-love-again-was-like-getting-hit-by-lightning-twice
Helen is still too young to understand all of it, but everyone in our family just loves that man so much.
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