> But now on to a much thornier and potentially marriage-imperiling issue: How should we best praise men? ... There’s no doubt men – and dads in particular – have gotten better in recent years ... This double standard has resulted in an irritating cultural quirk: our tendency to overpraise dads 

Thanks Leah, but I don't need your 'praise', not that you were giving any out. 

I really wonder why Feminists feel they have to periodically write these rather insulting male-bashing columns. 

Is it sort of itch that needs to be scratched? Or do they think they need to bump-up their street-cred? 

And the flip side to this is the devaluing the work that "males" do in a relationship (get underneath the sink and figure out where that leak is coming from, etc.). 

But no, the strength of a relationship is obviously how many diapers a male partner changes. 

I can't imagine anyone taking this column seriously, so I suppose it is supposed to be 'funny'.