“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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It’s been a long while since I saw a SATW comic. I used to be obsessed with these…
Whats with the third guy from the left at the top handing off knives to babies?
That kid is going to stand their ground.
It’s a survival of the fittest / Finnest kind of thing
Hän yrittää kasvattaa lapsia oikealla suomalaisella tavalla
That’s how Fins ensure appropriate social distancing. The only place Fins come together closer than an arms length is in the sauna.
First time I saw this, I didn’t get it.
2nd time I was drunk, and I immediately got it.I… I don’t know what this means for me as a person. Or how I can improve myself
A nice side of racism with your Euro smugness.
You misspelled “classic Scandinavian rivalry”.
Is Finnish dad distributing knives to the kids?
The kids make their own knives in school, but not as babies. They ski as babies.
ummmm…so what’s with the knife?
There’s an old stereotype in Sweden about Finns carrying knives… I guess
Not just in Sweden. I heard a joke on this topic in my high school years, in Denmark
… why are the men drawn normally, but the women like that
Booba good; Booby make man happy 🙂
For reference, here are the other countries:
England:
France:
Japan:
Brazil:
I see, bad sample. Thanks!
Yep I’m uncomfortable with it. They could have stereotyped in a way that didn’t need overt sexualisation
Oh. I thought you were talking about the women’s lack of arms compared to the men.
It’s playing on the stereotypes of those particular countries. ‘Sister Norway’ isn’t like that at all.
If you see all the other comics of this series by the author (a woman, BTW) you realize it’s part of the joke. It’s all about calling out stereotypes and the point is that, all countries are weird in their own way and bringing to light subtleties, similarities and differences beyond the stereotypes.
Yep I get that, just personally uncomfortable with it
Every character is a stereotype of a country.
And those are just the female stereotypes of those countries.
Sweden is the home of the women brought home by the vikings. Big breasted beautiful blondes.
The US is the home of the women who go tanning and get plastic surgery.
Swiss don’t fight. They run and hide and mumble how they would totally fight you if they are sure you don’t understand. And they are not happy.
That’s Denmark, if you are referring to the cartoon.
Oh true. I zoomed on the shirt and saw the cross all the way up. Yeah they can fight then
Swiss guard?
The artist of these comics is a woman as well.
Oh honey, I’m so sorry
Huh, I’ve probably seen it, but I can’t remember ever seeing a bloke pushing a pram here in the UK.
I see loads of women doing so of course, and I must have seen a man doing so at some point, but not often enough to have any recollection of it ever happening. Strange!
I’m sure I’ll take notice the next time I spot it though.
At first I thought the American just couldn’t recognize short-haired flat-chested Scandinavian moms as women.
I’m from the US and I did the stroller thing often. My kids are out of strollers now, but when I go run I see dads often enough out pushing one or two kids. I take my kids to the park a lot and say hey to the other moms and dads I know. I volunteer for things at my kids school, in their classes. One time it was me and two other dads, although that does seem to lean more heavily toward moms. I think moms are still better at other peoples’ kids, at least I know that’s not a strength of mine.
I think my generation of parents, right now, is equal responsibility. I have had to correct some extended family members, when my family shows up to a gathering and we have food, they automatically assumey wife made it, and I’ll dissuade them of that notion. But that’s coming from a generation of people where that’s how it was, and I take no offense, and it also doesn’t happen anymore.
I would also not take offense to someone saying “Look at you doing dad stuff,” because hey, it’s not always easy, and encouragement is … encouraging.
As a single dad in the Bible belt of PA, I feel this. I always got weird looks. I just love being a Dad.
Not a single dad, but my wife was gone for a year when our daughter was two. I used to watch moms struggling with kids in the grocery store and no one batted an eye (GA, USA). I’d do grocery shopping with mine in the cart and keep her amused while shopping and checking out and on more than one occasion for compliments about what a great dad I was.
I love my girls and spend as much time with them as I can and do things with them all the time. Still, my wife gets nothing and I occasionally still get pats on the back and compliments on doing basic dad stuff from both men and women.
Always struck me as such a weird thing. Sometimes moms really need more recognition too, I think.
That’s a weird one. On the one hand, men in many areas somehow still absurdly think of childrearing as women’s work, and a positive feedback when they act like a parent can help things in a better direction… but it also seems absurd to praise an adult for doing what really should be the bare minimum, clapping for them like a child who remembered to use the potty.
Pennsylvania, USA
As a Finn I am deeply insulted by yet strongly approve of the knife thing.
reminds me of how in australia you’re not allowed to have a big knife unless you have a good reason. i feel like “it’s the national identity” should be a good enough reason
Fully agree. I’d say as an Aussie you could just go ”…Crocodile Dundee, mate”
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?
A whittling knife of course
Maybe that baby is from Lahti?
That baby does have the ”roadman” thing down so it’s a sound bet 😂
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.
You’re not being very apparent if they have to ask.
I think it’s pretty ap-parent
Yes but are they an apt parent?
It depends on their apartment
But they are talking about parents being close, not apart.
How very Dad of you.
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.
really puzzled by “all the gay nannies”
Damn, that’s some eastern europe type phrasing
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?
Video games while the kid watches from a bumbo chair of course.
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
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)
12 weeks (optional)
If you are insanely lucky at that
Had to use all of my vacation and sick time banked up (unless I wanted/could afford to take a temp pay cut and go through government time off programs). That still only got me a few weeks.
No, no, thats just how long before landlords evict you.
Hahaha… not in the us… You usually get 30 days max. In a lot of situations, 3 days is all thats required here.
Depends on situatiom and region
With most rent being on 30 day periods.
Wait, what’s with the knife ?!
Scandinavian weaklings suck at blacksmithing and can’t even handle a kinfe whereas us suicidal mighty wifebeating subhuman Finnjävels are all about knives (and alcholism and depression)
source: Scandinavian bättre folk
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