Father's Day a time to examine 'toxic masculinity'

[boneyard1962]

My dad was superman to me. He was a flawed father. An alcoholic and at times abusive. I loved the ground the man walked upon.

I learned many things from him. How to endure what felt to be impossible. How to hunt, shoot, fish, camp and to survive anything.

I also learned what not to do to my own children. I never beat my children. I never screamed at them, insulted them or belittled them. I loved them as I know he loved me, but didn't know how to show.

I supported my babies until they became adults. I still support them and love them as though they are still babies.

I learned this from a very imperfect dad.

Toxic masculinity??? NO just not perfect.

None of us ever are.

[heart84]

Serious question. Will 2020 be the year the PC Police SJWs demand Father's Day be called Mother's Day, and Mother's Day be called Father's Day?

[moneill]

Originally Posted by PCALMike

Why not call it men with issues or women with issues instead of inventing phrases like toxic femininity or toxic masculinity?

You'd get more support that way, but perhaps support isnt what these people are interested in, rather to polarize society in a toxic way?

I'm not looking for support or advocating for anything.

[sanspeur]

This is a lesson for parents.

On Children

Kahlil Gibran


Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.


You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.


You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.