2.0 Does Not Equal 72

In "Fatherhood 2.0," Time Magazine cites research that dads who nurture their kids have happier children and lives. "Basically," saisd the research's author, Texas Professor Aaron Rochlen, "masculinity is bad for you."

And in the essay about the changing nature of how society views fathering the magazine cherry picks from available research to highlight another study showing lower-testosteroned males held baby dolls longer than their higher testosterone's brethren. Which makes me wonder if I can ever breed again, having sat on the floor of my daughters' bedroom through an interminable number of naked Barbie (are there any others?) tea parties. The real question is that while masculinity may be bad for you as Time suggests, but what kind of life is attendee at parties where you pretend to eat and drink with unclothed plastic?

Speaking/writing of naked plastic, what exactly was the 72-year-old Brit grandfather fantasizing as he went through the motions to "donate his sperm" at the bank where his daughter-in-law would be making a withdrawal? Perhaps some find this story warm and cuddly, a grandfather doing his all for his son, but doctors quoted say it's potentially dangerous as if getting a 9.2 on the "icky scale" weren't enough to put a stop to it.

** Doesn't seem holy, the divine doublety: grandad and dad the same. **