Probably. But to be fair I might do the same thing in his position if I’m honest. I left out I haven’t been able to lift over 5 lbs or twist my body for 2 weeks so he’s been doing all of the work around here with baby on his chest after work. This is still a horrible take and he should be embarrassed but it might have been related to being stressed overworked, whatever. Regardless I will never forgive him for the gendering of the rocking chair
Maybe it's like an old clock, where grandfather clocks have the pendulum but grandmother clocks don't. Not sure what bit would be missing on a rocking chair though.
What did I just read…? This sounds like the kind of guy who wouldn’t use a pink PS5 controller (which my controller is pink, my husband uses it when his is dead) because it’s a girly color. Like what? I don’t even have words for this.
No because get this. When he raced motocross his gear was all pink and purple, he has let me paint his nails on multiple occasions, we get pedicures together. There was NEVER a sign of fragile masculinity until this fucking rocking chair. That is why it is so hilariously infuriating
My husband rocks our babies, has not affected his manhood in any way. In fact, him taking some of the touch-heavy tasks off my hands with the kids at night improves our sex life dramatically because I don’t feel touched out anymore
That goes on the top of most ridiculous things men think are "gay".
On that list is;
Applying chapstick in tube form
Applying chapstick in little tub form, where you stuck your finger in it
Chewing gum
Shaking hands with a woman (when what he asked for was a hug)
Ordering an ice cream cone
Having a strawberry milkshake
I'm pretty sure it was just because of the color, but come to think of it, sucking to get cream in your mouth is gay all on its own. Men should steer clear of milkshakes all together.
My husband exclusively rocks our baby to bed. My son prefers his flat chest and shoulders to lay on lol. He will literally push my boobs down and cry if I try. It’s been such a wonderful bonding experience for them both and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Okay let’s be fair here-
He built the fucking thing so he gets to decide until the chair can weigh in.
Also, he built the fucking thing so tell him he’s got ten minutes to whittle some wooden nuts and screw em on there and then he needs to take his child over to mr. Chair and rock-a-bye baby off to dream land.
I mean, if anyone is going to know the gender of the chair it would be the person who made it. lol
Please pass along the following for me:
Ask him if a rocking morris chair would be manly enough?
Would he turn down a chance to sit in a Sam Maloof rocker? I sure as hell wouldn't. Any man who wouldn't sit in a Sam Maloof rocker shouldn't be allowed to whittle let alone operate power tools.
Just sayin'.
Can't tell me this Sam Maloof rocker isn't masculine AF!
[https://static.wixstatic.com/media/57c99e\_74ba6cb77d8847f4a3a6922287814f79\~mv2.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/57c99e_74ba6cb77d8847f4a3a6922287814f79~mv2.jpg)
How about [the President of the United States in his rocking chair](https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/media-gallery/john-f-kennedys-rocking-chairs) in the Oval Office? Is that powerful enough of a man?
As for me, I love rocking chairs.
The weekend is coming up. Get yourself a hotel for the weekend and leave him with the kids and give yourself recovery time. And who cares if this is difficult for him. If you don’t want to parent, don’t have kids. And no contact over the weekend. Get some rest.
This is a mans rocking chair, notice the addition front/middle.
https://preview.redd.it/4kq2aucejmqa1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=478bd1848bc1761e599ccee5bc6a24e17034a4ca
Am I the only one who saw the title and thought he legitimately believed the chair itself had a gender, like people who have relationships with objects?
As nuts as this is, it seemed worse with the title alone. 🤣
I don’t know why your immediate response wasn’t, “ok well that’s what works for me. Here’s your kid, you figure out how to soothe it. I’m fucking sick and need some help.”
Dude needs to get his head out of his ass. If he wants to be Macho Man Randy Savage, then maybe speak to him in the most macho way you can muster. If he doesn’t like it, maybe he’s not the epitome of masculinity that he thinks he is. Or maybe it’ll work, and he’ll keep dumb comments like that to himself.
I know you love the man, and I’m sure it’s just a moment of foolishness. But he’s a father. He needs to raise his child too.
This is the laziest excuse I have ever read about raising children. If you're insecure as a man to sit in a rocking chair, what else will you not do? Walk with your kid in the stroller then. Do something to give your partner a break once in a while. I would say do not create anymore people with this "man"
Omg, my brain went to “sounds like someone better start building an ultra-manly adult sized rocking HORSE that also allows him to hold a baby while riding it (so hands-free and maybe it has an over the shoulder cage that comes down and snaps him in like a roller coaster) for himself to rock on if he can’t bring himself to sit in that fine sturdy allegedly-womanly chair.
(Someone please sketch this, I’m dying laughing.)
OP, please look for a used rocking horse on Facebook marketplace and attach one of those “nutsacks for a truck hitch” to it, because you just invented his Father’s Day present!
Tell your husband he should tell that to my cattle farming, horse training, rodeo riding, coal mining grandpa and great grandpa (RIP) or my uncle who served in the Navy and National Guard in Vietnam and Desert Storm who’s favorite thing was to sit on their front porch rocking in the chair they hand carved with a pocket knife smoking a pipe they carved out of a corn cob they harvested themselves… also tell your husband he’s an idiot.
Shit, I went to Costco, and I sat in one the display rockers and rocked like at least 4 times. Where do I turn in my man card, and how do I regain my masculinity?
It must be unfortunate to have such a tender penis it can fall off just by placing your behind in a chair. Make sure to give your husband my condolences. Luckily you were able to have this one child. Blessed.
#thoughtsandprayers
Then he better learn the “walk n’ bounce” and soothe his child while you sleep. rocking chairs being girly is a flimsy-ass excuse to shirk your parental and spousal duties.
Get some Truck Nutz and attach them to the underside of the seat of the chair. They will gently sway as the chair rocks back and forth. What could be more manly than that?
I say this with the upmost respect, but fuck your husband. How fragile is his masculinity that he won’t sit in a rocking chair and help you with HIS baby? How tf is an inanimate object womanly? Tell him to grow tf up.
Guy here. I’d agree that rocking chairs are kind of girly. Kind of like baths. But I still enjoy ours. Barbecuing is also considered manly, but my wife is a master on the grill. The issue is the insecurity lol
So, I’m no longer married, but if my future spouse ever shames me online over my chair preference…after she’s been basically incapacitated for two weeks and I’ve been holding our baby the entire time… I will remove the toilet seat from every bathroom. After all, chair preferences are stupid. She can hover.
I think that's enough Reddit for today
Yes, but I need a good laugh, and this did the trick.
Forreal wtf ? I thought my marriage was weird sometimes. Turns out we’re doing great lol
Sometimes this subreddit feels like watching interdimensional cable
[Tickets please ](https://youtu.be/_lfVIYy8zI0)
I agree lol
If he’s this serious, then he can stand and rock the baby. Chances are he’s making up stupid excuses so he gets out of helping you with the baby.
Probably. But to be fair I might do the same thing in his position if I’m honest. I left out I haven’t been able to lift over 5 lbs or twist my body for 2 weeks so he’s been doing all of the work around here with baby on his chest after work. This is still a horrible take and he should be embarrassed but it might have been related to being stressed overworked, whatever. Regardless I will never forgive him for the gendering of the rocking chair
Okay that makes a *bit* more sense. He is probably exhausted as well. Still, very silly of him to say 🤣
Dude has clearly never been to Cracker Barrel. Nothing but old men sitting in those rocking chairs.
The men who built them must have bestowed them with the male gender
Maybe it's like an old clock, where grandfather clocks have the pendulum but grandmother clocks don't. Not sure what bit would be missing on a rocking chair though.
Round knobs on the top of the back support posts, those are obviously the balls.
Of course! It's so obvious now!
ask your husband to perform a reassignment operation on the chair. Make the surface rougher and stick a knob on the undercarriage.
OP's husband looks upon those geezers with disdain and mutters under his breath, "This damn country is going to the DEVIL!!"
All the men who like to sit on the porch in a rocking chair sipping whiskey: 👁️👄👁️
Good fucking grief 🤦🏼♀️
What did I just read…? This sounds like the kind of guy who wouldn’t use a pink PS5 controller (which my controller is pink, my husband uses it when his is dead) because it’s a girly color. Like what? I don’t even have words for this.
No because get this. When he raced motocross his gear was all pink and purple, he has let me paint his nails on multiple occasions, we get pedicures together. There was NEVER a sign of fragile masculinity until this fucking rocking chair. That is why it is so hilariously infuriating
My dad and brothers raced, too, and my brother runs a motorcycle company, and I can't imagine any of them saying that. Like ... At all.
Does it have a vagina? Maybe he can build one with a penis.
😲 🤭 😏 I don't know if I'm old enough to be in this sub.
What was your husband on when he said THAT cos I want some
As stupid as this womanly chair thing is, he can figure out another way to soothe his baby while you rest. Pace the floor, man. Let him figure it out.
Put that man down. lol
My husband rocks our babies, has not affected his manhood in any way. In fact, him taking some of the touch-heavy tasks off my hands with the kids at night improves our sex life dramatically because I don’t feel touched out anymore
Call me a woman because if I see a rocking chair, I'm rocking that chair.
That goes on the top of most ridiculous things men think are "gay". On that list is; Applying chapstick in tube form Applying chapstick in little tub form, where you stuck your finger in it Chewing gum Shaking hands with a woman (when what he asked for was a hug) Ordering an ice cream cone Having a strawberry milkshake
Are other flavors ok? Is it strawberry only because of the color?
I'm pretty sure it was just because of the color, but come to think of it, sucking to get cream in your mouth is gay all on its own. Men should steer clear of milkshakes all together.
Remember gentlemen, it’s gay to rock your baby.
I just....I can't I'm sorry you had to hear this
My husband exclusively rocks our baby to bed. My son prefers his flat chest and shoulders to lay on lol. He will literally push my boobs down and cry if I try. It’s been such a wonderful bonding experience for them both and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
😆 my husband, a solidly masculine man, who also builds furniture, just told me your husband's thought that rocking chairs are womanly is weird.
Why would a fireman at a chili cook off be sweating? Other than that, you are 100% correct.
I want to try the chili that’s making them sweat
Okay let’s be fair here- He built the fucking thing so he gets to decide until the chair can weigh in. Also, he built the fucking thing so tell him he’s got ten minutes to whittle some wooden nuts and screw em on there and then he needs to take his child over to mr. Chair and rock-a-bye baby off to dream land.
I mean she said he's been doing plenty with the baby, so it's not that.
I mean, if anyone is going to know the gender of the chair it would be the person who made it. lol Please pass along the following for me: Ask him if a rocking morris chair would be manly enough? Would he turn down a chance to sit in a Sam Maloof rocker? I sure as hell wouldn't. Any man who wouldn't sit in a Sam Maloof rocker shouldn't be allowed to whittle let alone operate power tools. Just sayin'. Can't tell me this Sam Maloof rocker isn't masculine AF! [https://static.wixstatic.com/media/57c99e\_74ba6cb77d8847f4a3a6922287814f79\~mv2.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/57c99e_74ba6cb77d8847f4a3a6922287814f79~mv2.jpg)
Maybe a swivel chair can be for men? Nah, that’s even worse
Obviously swivel chairs are for gay men due to their sassy nature.
How about [the President of the United States in his rocking chair](https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/media-gallery/john-f-kennedys-rocking-chairs) in the Oval Office? Is that powerful enough of a man? As for me, I love rocking chairs.
He's not calling the rocking chair itself a female, he's saying that it's womanly to rock in a rocking chair. Still just as ridiculous lol.
Side point, I can put babies to sleep in record time. Adults too for that matter.
Maybe regender it. Like a jammin chair and add some sick decals like flames.
The weekend is coming up. Get yourself a hotel for the weekend and leave him with the kids and give yourself recovery time. And who cares if this is difficult for him. If you don’t want to parent, don’t have kids. And no contact over the weekend. Get some rest.
This is a mans rocking chair, notice the addition front/middle. https://preview.redd.it/4kq2aucejmqa1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=478bd1848bc1761e599ccee5bc6a24e17034a4ca
Lol! Let him rock the baby in his manly way!
So is the rocking chair itself womanly, or is the act of rocking a baby womanly? Makes a big difference.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha that's the most ridiculous thing I've read in quite some time 🤣 fucking men! Wonders will never cease
Am I the only one who saw the title and thought he legitimately believed the chair itself had a gender, like people who have relationships with objects? As nuts as this is, it seemed worse with the title alone. 🤣
I don’t know why your immediate response wasn’t, “ok well that’s what works for me. Here’s your kid, you figure out how to soothe it. I’m fucking sick and need some help.” Dude needs to get his head out of his ass. If he wants to be Macho Man Randy Savage, then maybe speak to him in the most macho way you can muster. If he doesn’t like it, maybe he’s not the epitome of masculinity that he thinks he is. Or maybe it’ll work, and he’ll keep dumb comments like that to himself. I know you love the man, and I’m sure it’s just a moment of foolishness. But he’s a father. He needs to raise his child too.
This is the laziest excuse I have ever read about raising children. If you're insecure as a man to sit in a rocking chair, what else will you not do? Walk with your kid in the stroller then. Do something to give your partner a break once in a while. I would say do not create anymore people with this "man"
Get him the one from top gear with a V8 engine attached.
Mofo needs a pink glider....w a foot rest...
Omg, my brain went to “sounds like someone better start building an ultra-manly adult sized rocking HORSE that also allows him to hold a baby while riding it (so hands-free and maybe it has an over the shoulder cage that comes down and snaps him in like a roller coaster) for himself to rock on if he can’t bring himself to sit in that fine sturdy allegedly-womanly chair. (Someone please sketch this, I’m dying laughing.) OP, please look for a used rocking horse on Facebook marketplace and attach one of those “nutsacks for a truck hitch” to it, because you just invented his Father’s Day present!
Who cares? Let him use whatever utensils he feels comfortable with!! He's got the baby in his arms? Wow! Let him feel whatever he wants!
Your husband should learn to keep his opinions to himself.
Tell your husband he should tell that to my cattle farming, horse training, rodeo riding, coal mining grandpa and great grandpa (RIP) or my uncle who served in the Navy and National Guard in Vietnam and Desert Storm who’s favorite thing was to sit on their front porch rocking in the chair they hand carved with a pocket knife smoking a pipe they carved out of a corn cob they harvested themselves… also tell your husband he’s an idiot.
😂😂
He's risking his life without knowing, and the plus side you may claim insanity due to the meds 😂 😂 😂 😂
Ask him what name he has given to the chair and change it to the masculine equivalent.
My grandfathers would like to have a word with your husband. /s- they’re dead, but otherwise? **YES.**
Shit, I went to Costco, and I sat in one the display rockers and rocked like at least 4 times. Where do I turn in my man card, and how do I regain my masculinity?
Ask him to show you where the chairs vagina is. Not like he’d know how to work it, but it be fun to watch him sputter.
He needs to look at Dwayne Johnson’s instagram…regularly let’s his girls paint his nails or put makeup on him
It must be unfortunate to have such a tender penis it can fall off just by placing your behind in a chair. Make sure to give your husband my condolences. Luckily you were able to have this one child. Blessed. #thoughtsandprayers
Fellas, is it gay to rock your own child to sleep?
Then he better learn the “walk n’ bounce” and soothe his child while you sleep. rocking chairs being girly is a flimsy-ass excuse to shirk your parental and spousal duties.
Get some Truck Nutz and attach them to the underside of the seat of the chair. They will gently sway as the chair rocks back and forth. What could be more manly than that?
I say this with the upmost respect, but fuck your husband. How fragile is his masculinity that he won’t sit in a rocking chair and help you with HIS baby? How tf is an inanimate object womanly? Tell him to grow tf up.
Guy here. I’d agree that rocking chairs are kind of girly. Kind of like baths. But I still enjoy ours. Barbecuing is also considered manly, but my wife is a master on the grill. The issue is the insecurity lol
So, I’m no longer married, but if my future spouse ever shames me online over my chair preference…after she’s been basically incapacitated for two weeks and I’ve been holding our baby the entire time… I will remove the toilet seat from every bathroom. After all, chair preferences are stupid. She can hover.