"Still not over the American woman who was super surprised to see so many men walking around with strollers and generally looking after their children alone during her travels through the Nordic countries."

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[–] 80 points 7 months ago (14 children)

A friend of a friend of mine visited Stockholm from the US. She loved it, but was really puzzled by "all the gay nannies" until she was told they were the fathers.

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  • [–] 56 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    So what do American fathers do on mandatory parental leave, just sit at home?

    Oh, wait, there is no mandatory parental leave for fathers in the US, is there?

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago

    Lol, federally we don't have paid parental leave for mothers either. If there are 50+ employees both parents can take up to 12 weeks unpaid, and states may force paid leave to be offered.

    And yeah, I'm not a parent, but I've noticed that over the years there's been more and more of a move towards fathers taking part in the nurturing parenting (as opposed to mainly being involved via providing, instruction, and discipline)

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    No, no, thats just how long before landlords evict you.

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    Video games while the kid watches from a bumbo chair of course.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    You joke but my youngest learned to jump from Laura Croft.

    Mid-2020 my wife was playing through the Tomb Raider remakes and left the computer to go fo something and my youngest walked up and pressed the biggest button that they could reach, the space bar, then was amazed to see the button caused something to happen on screen, so they kept doing it. Then the mimicry kicked in and they started trying to copy what they saw on screen and proceeded to jump for the very first time

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  • [–] 60 points 7 months ago (14 children)

    Wait what's with the knives? That baby is holding one, his dad is giving one to the other baby... I don't get this reference I'm a brute sorry

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  • [–] 111 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    SATW always portrays Finland with a knife, so it’s more of an inside joke and not related to this specific comic strip.

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    All scandinavians has those (fjΓ€llkniv, morakniv,...) but the finnish are portrayed, in Scandinavia, as the most isolated/laconic people,the most "manly" ones, hence the knife. Swedes were portrayed as the gayest in the nineties at least (very "woke"), and so on. It's just cultural stereotypes.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Thanks for these insights, TIL.

    ...I want a Scandinavian boyfriend now, these knives are really nice!

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    When you go into the outdoors don't you have knives too? I don't know how to do anything without one

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not much of an outdoors person myself however I do own two foldable knives. Indoors I tend to use kitchen knives and the retractable blades sorts which is actually stationery but yes we agree blades are incredibly useful

    However having said that easily half the people I know don't own any blades that cut, not even in their kitchens.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Swedes were portrayed as the gayest in the nineties at least (very "woke"), and so on.

    Also because the way their version of the "Scandinavian language" is very flamboyant

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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Here in the UK its getting more and more common, but we still have to put up with strangers asking "are you babysitting today?".

    Like no mate I'm being a parent.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    You're not being very apparent if they have to ask.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I think it's pretty ap-parent

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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    As a Finn I am deeply insulted by yet strongly approve of the knife thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What type of knife do you suggest for a small baby? I'm assuming the joke there is that babies have difficulty handling chef's knives and that something like a pairing knife would be more appropriate. Or maybe a throwing knife because the loop makes them easier to hold and they are probably going to end up throwing it at some point, so better to use a knife designed for it?

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