It’s become quite fashionable to denigrate masculinity and fatherhood. Nobody’s asking what happens when a society eschews risk and seeks safety at all costs. From Thomas Harrington at brownstone.org:
Have you gotten the memo yet? If not, you must be pretty good at willful blindness as it has been pumped into our homes several times an hour by our mainstream media and its advertising apparatus over the last quarter century or so.
While it has several stylistic variations, its central message is the following:
American fathers are amiable doofuses who mostly care about getting and sitting in front of big screen TVs while their much savvier wives scurry around for them, and provide almost everything of lasting value that the children might need.
Then there’s the other part.
You know, the one that says that when they’re not being puerilely useless watching football as they are, of course, venting their well-known and preternatural penchant for verbal and physical violence on the world around them. https://read.amazon.com/kp/card?asin=B0C4G4785Y&preview=inline&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_RXH219CD05K20G6MQKK9
Watching this non-stop line of messaging you’d almost believe there are some powerful people out there in media-land who fantasize quite actively about a world without men, or at the very least, a world in which 49 percent of the culture would come to feel tentative and a little stupid about exercising the roles they have played in all healthy societies since the beginning of time.
And what might those be?
Archie Bunker!
They tried to make AB the villain character and he was the best one on there.
Uncle Jesse was a father figure.