We’re talking about #girldads.
Not all girl dads are alike, although they have many bad things in common. So we’re attempting a taxonomy—from the shotgun-toting girl dad to the woke “father of daughters.”
We’ll look at men across the political spectrum who use their daughters as moral props, and talk about fathers who see their relationships with their daughters as (shudder) “the only honeymoon that never ends.”
And, of course, we’ll unpack what this all tells us about the state of hetero culture today.
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In this episode we talk about:
* Matthew McConaughey calling daughters “the only honeymoon that never ends”
* And what that implies about hetero marriage (wives are a drag!)
* The viral outrage when moms say similar things
* A universal test for girl dad remarks: Would he say this about a son?
* The history of #girldad as a socially acceptable way for men to express tenderness
* How #girldads tend to see themselves as playmates, not caregivers
* The shotgun-toting girl dad protecting his property
* The pyramid scheme of masculinity
* Purity rings, purity balls, and being passed from one man to another
* Democrats and Republicans relying on daughters as proof of goodness
* Brett Kavanaugh tearfully using his daughters to defend himself
* “Dad feminism” that relies on having a “biological stake” in women’s rights
* The problem with relying on parenthood for men’s moral transformation
* “Woke fathers of daughters”
* The “would you want this done to your daughter?” trope
* Why aren’t we asking men to put themselves in women’s shoes?
* Gen Z women saying girl dads make the best bosses
* The off-screen actor in every “girl dad” story: mom
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