I know how this goes. I think my own father thought much less of me when I was a kid because I didn't play sports (at least, not organized ones, anyway), showe

I know how this goes. I think my own father thought much less of me when I was a kid because I didn't play sports (at least, not organized ones, anyway), showed little interest in most "masculine" things that were popular in my area, like fixing cars and hunting, instead preferring to read, learn and write. The cult of masculinity is just as pervasive and oppressive as the idea of patriarchal oppression. Funny, I don't think my father truly respected me until I became a paratrooper in the Army, which proved nothing to me but apparently a lot to everyone else.