- Joined
- Dec 12, 2022
The topic of single and or child-less men claiming that they would all be perfectly content and happy if they could just have sex and or raise children has me a little irritated at the moment, please excuse me while I scream in to the void.
Much talk is spent on industrial accidents and work place safety in my line of work but in the years I have spent in my industry I have known only one man who was permanently disabled at work and one who was killed. Both of these were caused by them rushing for no good reason while working on congested sites.
On the other hand I have been personally acquainted with six men who got their selves killed and two who can no longer walk due to sporting and motorcycle accidents. The loss of life in and of its self is sad but what has begun to irk me is that more than half of these men have / had wives and not-yet adult children, two of them had pregnant wives at the time of their deaths or injuries.
For all of their talk about how important family and children are to them they appear to value risk taking and playing with their damned toys more than staying safe and healthy for the sake of their children and wives. It is a small world and we know most of the same people who have died or been injured, one would think that any man with children who I work with would have decided to set these things aside but just recently one of my co-workers who has an infant son was making fun of his wife for insisting that he wears a helmet on a multi-day off road trip he is planning for the fall. Naturally, he has stated his intention to not actually wear the lid and he will simply lie to his wife. She will be staying home with their son while he runs off in to the wilderness for a week.
So many men seem to only care for their wives and their children as trophies and status symbols and it is inconceivable to them that they may have to give some things up to be good fathers and husbands. The worst thing is that (for some reason) I still like these doofuses and I absolutely hate it when they invariably get pinned under quads or hung up on barbed wire fences.
On the other hand I have been personally acquainted with six men who got their selves killed and two who can no longer walk due to sporting and motorcycle accidents. The loss of life in and of its self is sad but what has begun to irk me is that more than half of these men have / had wives and not-yet adult children, two of them had pregnant wives at the time of their deaths or injuries.
For all of their talk about how important family and children are to them they appear to value risk taking and playing with their damned toys more than staying safe and healthy for the sake of their children and wives. It is a small world and we know most of the same people who have died or been injured, one would think that any man with children who I work with would have decided to set these things aside but just recently one of my co-workers who has an infant son was making fun of his wife for insisting that he wears a helmet on a multi-day off road trip he is planning for the fall. Naturally, he has stated his intention to not actually wear the lid and he will simply lie to his wife. She will be staying home with their son while he runs off in to the wilderness for a week.
So many men seem to only care for their wives and their children as trophies and status symbols and it is inconceivable to them that they may have to give some things up to be good fathers and husbands. The worst thing is that (for some reason) I still like these doofuses and I absolutely hate it when they invariably get pinned under quads or hung up on barbed wire fences.