There's also no "race for the cure" for prostate cancer, but then women have to make a ceremony and celebration out of everything.

The women's way to commemorate 9/11 is to have a "memorial foundation" that employs a bunch of well-paid (mostly women) people, and gets into all the grief and understanding and healing stuff.

The men's way to commemorate that event would have been to rebuild the Twin Towers in record time, put up a plaque for the dead, and kill those reponsible for the tragedy.

Damn straight you are, DR. I look around my neighborhood, appalled at all the women married to the welfare check.

In every commercial with a father or a husband, the man is always the fool.

I once had a Little Golden Book about moms and the work they do, and as I was reading it, I noted that all the moms had jobs where they were doctors, lawyers, pilots and firefighters. All the traditional manly jobs were now women's work.

At the end of the story, my child says: The only job these moms don't have is raising their kids.
Sadly, true. We got mother's day, but it isn't enough for us, is it? We have to have your day, too.

After my mother died, and we no longer gave her a new ashtray for her special day, our dad inherited both days. He got two ashtrays every year from us.

Because we cared that much.

Right on Don R, except if we didn't have so many liberals telling us to worry about everyones' feelings all over the friggin world, we could have probably reversed the order of those three things.

Remember the Boeing poster that said something to the effect "Dear Osama, since you seem so interested in using our commercial products for warlike purposes, we're now going to conduct a demonstration of how much better our military products are at it. No appointment required - we'll just drop in."?

My liberal relatives were appalled... appalled, I tell you. What candy-asses.

Thanks again, V.

This. So much this.

Man, that's just depressing.

Seems to me Father's Day ought to be like March 14 with a bonus gift, but apparently I'm in a minority.

Uh, perhaps I should clarify that, or it could be taken in the worst sort of wrong way. Being a wife, it seems right to make sure my husband has a March 14th sort of day.

My father just gets a phone call, but that's mostly all he wants, anyway.

It's been like this for a long time.

Back in the day, Mother's day was the day with the most long distance phone calls.

Father's day was the day of the most collect calls.

I think the women's movement has damaged traditional women's rights. Men can leave and Liberal women can leave. Traditional women who believe in what they are doing as moms are the ones who pay the price legally, financially and emotionally. I will advise BOTH my son and my daughter to play it safe and if they marry and have kids, they do so KNOWING the risk involved, knowing they can lose their kids at the whim of another person, be it an adulterous spouse, a biased judge, an aggressive lawyer. Obama's mother was raised by nuts herself and she herself was absent from his life at times - a loving mother couldn't do that. Once he hit the Chicago Black Liberation scene, it was all over for him. Next thing he knows, he's married to an angry black woman, he's hired a domestic terrorist as ghost-writer, he's being ordained by the high priestess, Oprah Winfrey and poof!.. he's the first black U.S. president, the first intellectual president, according to the main stream media. Just think how dangerous he might have been were he actually raised by his father, were he actually black, were he actually intellectual! So we should thank his loony white mother this weekend, in honor of sperm donors the world over. She really knew how to pick 'em.

Yada, yada, yada.

While you demean a day that is demeaned because many fathers long ago abdicated being the strong spiritual/moral leaders of the family (for love/sex/peace? at all costs) and whimped out to the womenfolk...how bout reading what happened to Christopher Yuan's family in his recently released book "From A Far Country." Meanwhile keep abdicating responsibilty and losing respect.

Thank you. Another excellent post. Typically a phone call will suffice for my now 87 year old dad: he decries all things Hallmark.
Btw, a couple of years ago, Sweden had a program called "Mustasch Kampen" (the Mustache Campaign) - for prostrate cancer. I don't know if it still exists but I thought it was a good thing. Their pins are little black handlebar mustaches.

If your wife is bitchy and you leave, what are you leaving the kids to?

My boss has an old newspaper cartoon on the wall of his office. I've looked, but I can't find a link online.

The left panel shows a man, and the caption reads: "He got a woman pregnant but decided he didn't want to be a father. He's a deadbeat dad."

The right panel shows a woman, and the caption reads: "She got pregnant but decided she didn't want to be a mother. She's pro-choice."

I've had many titles during life, but none of them quite matched being called Dad. Our children were the best things that my wife and I ever produced. Father's Day is not necessary, the reward is in the job and all that comes with it.

So sorry there are many who are bummed about marriage, parenting, and families - once the backbone of our culture, now but a shaky remnant. God help us all.

rickl - in either scenario, it is the woman's fault, right? and I'm sincere in that. She is either evil for forcing paternity or evil for killing her unwanted child. It basically comes down to philosophy - even President Brilliance said he didn't want his daughter burdened with a baby... he would ENCOURAGE his own daughter to abort his own grandchild...??? Nice, huh? If a man's philosophy is to be responsible he will do what is right. If a woman's philosophy is to be responsible, she will give the child life. If she doesn't have support from the father, then she will either have to take legal steps to get support or give the child up for adoption or be a single mom. What man would take a child off the hands of a woman he screwed and voluntarily raise it when she refused to do it? I guess moms do leave but rarely do dads take sole custody from day one. So it comes down to philosophy - your examples are both examples of what NOT to be - if a prolife woman makes the mistake of having sex with a deadbeat man, either she is as dumb as her partner regarding how babies are made or she has to be willing to go through legal steps or give the baby up. And if a pro-life man makes the mistake of having sex with a selfish pro-choice woman, he has to either be willing to take legal steps to demand she show proof they didn't conceive or he has to be willing to take the gamble that he may have enabled the abortion of his own child. Do you see how far and wide the divide is? I don't see many men out demonstrating for the right to have their sex partners tested or mourning the loss of their aborted off-spring. I'm not taking gender sides, I just think the cartoon you quoted is misleading. Compelling, but misleading once you realize it takes two to tango but only one can lead. In the case of sex, it has to be the pro-life partner, regardless of sex. Pro-life men and women need to make better choices. There is no hope for the deadbeats and aborters.

I've had many titles during life, but none of them quite matched being called Dad. Our children were the best things that my wife and I ever produced. Father's Day is not necessary, the reward is in the job and all that comes with it.

I can't find a way to improve upon that comment. I will say that my kids -yesterday- kept telling me to leave stuff alone and take it easy because "it's Father's Day". My reply that I liked doing the stuff that dads do and didn't want to take time off from doing them.

Remember that scene in "The World According To Garp" where Robin Williams and his wife would just go and look at the kids? Most of my days are like that. I gaze in wonder and awe at these little folk who a) adore me and b) are dependent on me. I could no more leave them than I could shove a red hot poker up the inside of my private parts. I have great difficulty understanding fathers that do.