A mother denounces the “privilege of dad” which raises fathers to the rank of heroes

It is a received idea still well anchored in our societies: to believe that the man is the only breadwinner of the family and that if he takes care of the children alone for a day, he is a real hero. On the other hand, for a woman it is quite normal if she has to juggle daily between her job, household chores and her role as a mother. It is even, for many people still, his “duty” as a woman. While no, it is not.

Chloe Sexton, a young mother, 27, living in Memphis in the state of Tennessee in the United States, knows a lot about it. On October 31, on her TikTok account followed by more than a million subscribers, she took the floor to denounce what she calls the “daddy privilege”, Understand“daddy’s privilege”. His video immediately went viral.

Be recognized as a parent

With her little boy in her arms, named Theodore, the young mother tells her story. Chloe is a business owner, she runs her own bakery. For her business to work, she does not count her hours, she also has to take care of her son, who is barely six months old. A daily life at a hundred miles an hour that she leads head on, like many other women without any recognition. “Every week I have to go to wholesalers where I collect big bags of flour and butter, I carry them myself and I also did this when I was seven months pregnant.”, She confides. At such times no one would ever congratulate her or just help her, no. But when her husband, Tyler, got a day off and helped him at work while looking after their son, he was “treated like a hero” and praised, she says.

For Chloe, it is high time that mentalities change. Because “he is not a hero. He’s just a dad, just a parent, doing the same things that I do every week.“She says. She adds that” every parent deserves to know that they are seen and appreciated, encourage them “, both mothers and fathers.