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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Beardsley@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] Flameshark@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Ebber@lemmings.world 7 points 2 months ago

They're doing their best

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I didn't have the impression that he is generally, I figured this was more a case of what you grow up with is normal - to the point that he didn't even pick up on it!

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah I read it that way too. Like his kid is perfect just the way they are... and his mom is perfect just the way she is too.

[–] Beardsley@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The joke is that I have oversimplified the context.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...I am very unobservant. (Especially early in the morning!)

[–] Beardsley@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Lololol all good, my friend.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a version of the old (and, no longer accurate) joke: a mom knows her child's favorite foods, who their best friends and when their birthdays are, the names of their teachers, and their favorite crayon color. The farther knows some short people are living in the house.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is it no longer accurate? Maybe you meant to way it is not generally true, but it is certainly accurate as a description for my own family.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Gender stereotypes. I can't speak for the 50's, but all of the young parents, regardless of sex, that I've personally known in the past 15 years have been hyper-involved in their kid's lives.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I interpreted more as: (autistic?) men rarely make eye contact.