I could perhaps have been hasty to condemn him to some degree. However I think it is critical to our society that men teach boys how to be men. I find that what

I could perhaps have been hasty to condemn him to some degree. However I think it is critical to our society that men teach boys how to be men. I find that what is called toxic masculinity is often men who haven't been instructed and are doing a thin impersonation of what they believe it to be. We can't let other men off the hook so easily, given that those choices echo down the generations. I don't believe the posters father will ever read what I wrote, but I hope the poster does, and when he finds that his children need him I hope he understands how trivial someone else's deadline is in comparison to their need for their father.