God's Chosen Fascist

I'm a firm believer that when two men are talking, the children should never interrupt. And if they interrupt, the mother of that child should generally be the one to intervene -- not the father. This is how I was raised, and it's how we'll raise our kids. We're old-school. I notice, for example, a massive difference when talking to Amish men versus non-Amish men. Amongst Amish fathers, if a toddler fusses, his wife immediately and reflexively grabs the child and soothes it. The man does not lose his train of thought; he can engage his guest in deep, prolonged conversation that is never "choppy" or broken up. This is exceedingly refreshing after spending time with so many non-Amish fathers -- who often allow themselves to be interrupted and diverted endlessly by screaming toddlers and so on. The "egalitarian" mentality so many men now espouse can result in conversations of such low quality that business relations and friendships actually suffer (or even fail to form in the first place) because Dad is always mothering the unruly kids. There are exceptions of course; some old-school Italians, Mexicans, and some Eastern Europeans seem not to have gone for this stuff. But by the by, it seems to me that the conversational ability of fathers has tanked off a cliff ever since modern feministic parenting roles have been mainstreamed.