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.

Not Funny?

How can it not be funny to see a frustrated viewer throw a television out the window because he is frustrated with the pitching. Assuming nobody is hurt, that is. Particularly in a comic?

According to Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post Writers Group, many find controversy starts when it is thrown by a beer guzzling father. And this after mention in the comic that someone has two mommies. And there is a talking penguin. Named Opus.

Are there really dads threatened by Berkeley Breathed referencing some unseen lesbian couple? I understand parenting is not the usual heterosexual menage a trois dreamed of. But still.... Our war is often with moms, but they are the moms of our children or the moms of our children's friends (and enemies). Two moms on their own seems like such a waste of ire.

Aren't there enough parenting worries to go around so that everyone can grab all they can without having to worry about someone else's?

** Alas for them, no lesbian can come any closer than aspire to be a whiny dad. **