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What utter rubbish... Where did you read this? Or get this impression? My grandfather was the epitome of "manliness". Blue collar worker. Hunter. Army service.
by anon291 3y ago
What utter rubbish... Where did you read this? Or get this impression?
My grandfather was the epitome of "manliness". Blue collar worker. Hunter. Army service. My mother and her sisters have vivid memories of him singing to them.
Something is honestly sick with so many families in this country. Men have been caring for their children for millennia. It's what separates humans from the lesser beasts.
- thsksbd 3y agoWe made a caricature of men and we've grown to believe it.
- tgv 3y agoIf this matters, its effect in society is going depend on the number of fathers who behave like this. If that number were much smaller 100 years ago then it is now, etc.
- anon291 3y agoBased on my own familial experience (hard to get many others), my grandfather was not an aberration. Actually, if we look at cultural products of various times (songs, poems, etc), it seems quite clear that it was expected that a good father would be playful and intimate with his children.