Let us not forget that Osborne s writing career has slowed down. Yet somehow our society does not feel the same compassion for the man as we do for the woman. When Grateful Begins to Grate and Beyond the Cult of Fatherhood are two essays that deal with the challenges of our American traditions with everyday family life. In both essays we tend to feel compassion for the women. Women are not the only sex who are the house cleaners, the cooks and the nurturers.
Men can and do go through some of the same hardships that women go through.
We cannot be biased and think that when a man stays at home with the child or just does household duties that he is a bomb. Our feeling compassion for one and not the other is how these essays exemplify our biased American culture when it comes to men helping out at home or staying home to raise the child. Works Cited Goodman, Ellen. When Grateful Begins to Grate. Literature and Ourselves.