He spent literally all my childhood “working” 16 hour shifts (not because he needed to) while neglecting his kids, and tries to solve all our problems with money instead of, you know, actually listening and supporting his kids emotionally, and now asks why none of us visit him.
While not all markdown tricks work everywhere in the Fediverse (making for some people seeing one thing and some another), a backslash before a character usually prevents it from misbehaving.
e.g. this is italic, *but this is not* because I put backslashes before the asterisks \*like so\*. And if you figure out how I did that last one, you’ve learned well.
We were not wealthy, but he worked for a government owned public company, which coupled with strong unions and worker’s rights meant he earned a nice wage just working 8 hour shifts without so much overtime
Not my mother, but my father.
He spent literally all my childhood “working” 16 hour shifts (not because he needed to) while neglecting his kids, and tries to solve all our problems with money instead of, you know, actually listening and supporting his kids emotionally, and now asks why none of us visit him.
/rant
Raising emotionally retarded men
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obligating men to be fathers
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making bread winning the father’s only familial responsibility
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our dads
Edit:
Lemmy nerds: what exactly do I need to escape to prevent getting a massive heading font on the above?
Try a backslash.
While not all markdown tricks work everywhere in the Fediverse (making for some people seeing one thing and some another), a backslash before a character usually prevents it from misbehaving.
e.g. this is italic, *but this is not* because I put backslashes before the asterisks \*like so\*. And if you figure out how I did that last one, you’ve learned well.
\*Merci beaucoup!*
That you, brother?
Could you explain why he might not have needed to work 16 hours? Were you wealthy?
We were not wealthy, but he worked for a government owned public company, which coupled with strong unions and worker’s rights meant he earned a nice wage just working 8 hour shifts without so much overtime