Why, instead of reducing fatherhood to negative stereotypes, is it not recognized that being a father implies a deep commitment to care, love?

[oldpigg]

Why, instead of reducing fatherhood to negative stereotypes, is it not recognized that being a father implies a deep commitment to care, love and responsibility, beyond simply providing financially?

[Hellraiser1984]

Because we're supposed to be hard cold and pretty much pure evil. To rule over the child with violence and threats of violence. Humiliate the child to teach them to toughen up. And show them no mercy or sympathy because the world doesn't care. Also alcohol is the solution to all our problems. And to teach them that if you ever cry about it they will beat the shit out of you. At least that was my dad. Oh and for boys pump em and dump em and never pay child support ever. I'm screwed up, PTSD, social anxiety disorder, fear of rejection, and lack of any relationships. Yeah I wished I grew up without a father. And he broke my foot and hit me and my mom with a baseball bat. And beat my dog and got fired for sexual harassment and punched me in the face many times. And threw me out of the house all the time when I was little and told me to never come back. Yes having a father is so much fun and I'm so happy to have had one. May he rot in hell.

[jshm2]

Don't be a dufus.

They aren't "reducing" anything. Their absent/abusive fathers have left them with issues, they can't speak about a positivity they have never known.

It would be like asking the KKK to talk about the good things Blacks have done in the community.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

I think with good fathers, they are seen as a deep commitment to love and care.

It's the ones who expect a mother to do everything while he plays his Xbox or who just bail on the mother and child that bring out those negative stereotypes.

[Anonymous]

Are those things manly?
Do men themselves spread those things about other men?
Do they want to?

[exitseven]

Being a father is the hardest job I ever had.

[DrPepper12]

I don't know what kind of fathers you've met but that's the norm and a great majority do!

[beefcakebradybatson]

If more men were like my father, absolutely, but far too many "fathers" are only sperm donors.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Imagine if we spend all the money wasted on the alphabet mafia and spent that on promoting strong families led by competent fathers.

[Anonymous]

liberalism hates the nuclear family unit and aims to degrade fatherhood and motherhood