Myth(ter) Men

For most mythologies there is a father figure as the prime mover of all that follows. But the mythological father is also very much a part of everyday life. A few examples should suffice to suggest many others.

• There is the lesbian father whose warmth and wisdom make a man out of a heterosexual dad.
• There is the never-to-be known dad. In Dear Zachary one can view a documentary ostensibly created for the son born to the murdered father ... who may have been murdered by the mother(?).
• And then there is the stunningly beautiful father, who, alas, only passes along his good looks to his daughter — although one assumes the boy gets the money ... and, really, which would you rather have?

Advice to today's dads: create your own mythology, but make it helpful.