"She was always up to something and had recently told him she was in the processes of renovating the family room at the back of the ranch house. He'd told her not to exhaust herself, that her main job was to simply settle in and get used to ranche life and take care of herself and her pregnancy. Their pregnancy. Their baby. "

We talk about the tropes and trends of infantilizing women in movies and literature as well as the examples of the bumbling dad character found in commercials and sitcoms.