Father’s Day

Posted on June 20, 2010 | Comments Off on Father’s Day

It’s telling, I think, that a recent Rasmussen poll finds fully a third of Americans either denying that fatherhood is important or being unsure if it is. It’s a hard role, and especially hard when dealing with a boy. The irony of that is that men are supposed to want sons. Yet daughters generally are easier for a father to deal with. But the whole thing about what people are supposed to want is a media creation and I, of all people, ought to know how phony media creations/constructs are. Designed entirely to sell. No more.

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0 responses to “Father’s Day”

  1. Diller's avatar Diller | June 21, 2010 at 8:15 am |

    Kind of a Hallmark holiday,like several others I suppose. We only had daughters,lost the youngest in 2001,but I’ve never anguished over not having a son,in fact when I see how some of my sisters and friends of mine have turned out,I am not sad at all. Took my OL Pa a bottle of booze,at 89,it wont hurt him,and I know he’ll use it::)

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | June 21, 2010 at 9:42 am |

    Old Irish curse: “May all your children be boys.”
    They have their good moments, but I do envy the fathers with girls sometimes. Thanks for stopping by, Diller. How’re the cows and the EPA?