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Who’s Responsible?

Sue Hirsch
7 min readSep 16, 2021

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Let’s play: Which of these things is not like the other.

This is a game that some of you will remember from Sesame Street. That was the very wholesome children’s show that taught us manners, tolerance for others, and some of the basics of life like counting, ABCs and the fact that seeds grow into plants. I’ll give you four things and one of them will be a bit different from the other three.

  1. It takes two to tango?
  2. Why didn’t she keep her legs closed?
  3. Why did she get pregnant if she didn’t want to be a mom?
  4. Why didn’t he keep it in his pants if he didn’t want to be a Dad?

Was that game too easy for you? Did you get the point? The point was that we rarely ever hear a man say that another man should have kept it in his pants, if he didn’t want to be “responsible” or a Dad. But for those who didn’t get it, I’ll spell it out here, or you can see the dichotomy at work in the real world:

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