It seems like there is no grand tradition that someone doesn't want to either take away or at least diminish. Yesterday was, of course, Father's Day. We had several wonderful Father's Day pieces here at RedState, as we do every year, as we also do on Mother's Day. We have our oldest daughter and her husband visiting from the lower 48, and to mark Father's Day yesterday, we stopped at a place we like in Wasilla where our daughter treated me to a lovely burger with bacon and bleu cheese.
That's what the day should be like. But now, this morning after Father's Day, I see a Canadian writer, one Mark Bulgutch, bemoaning the fact that Father's Day is about, you know, dads.
There are single fathers and two-dad fathers, but whatever the case now, at the beginning of the fatherhood path, there was a woman. It seems only fair to acknowledge that on Father’s Day.
I’m not the first person to observe that if men gave birth, every family would have only one child. And then only if no one told men why they call it “labour.”
This is the first thing Mr. Bulgutch gets wrong. Here's a tip for him: Men are like women in having different tolerances for pain and discomfort, as well as different priorities in life. If men gave birth - they don't, before the gender ideology crowd chimes in - it would be natural for them to do so, and you would have about the same ratio of kids/parent as we see now. This is a perfectly ridiculous and prejudicial statement.
But wait! There's more!
Father’s Day is set aside so that children can thank Dad. That is completely unnecessary. I am confident my children appreciate my role in their upbringing, and they need no special day on the calendar to let me know that.
Mother’s Day is also a child-parent thing. So when is a man supposed to make it a priority to thank the woman who birthed his children? How about Father’s Day?
If the world was a perfect place, a man might show gratitude every day. The world is not a perfect place. So on Father’s Day, when all the attention falls on perhaps the least important character in the delivery room, it seems to me that a smart father would insist on recognizing the blinding truth: the woman who made him a father is the real hero of the story.
The only thing Mark Bulgutch gets right here is that Mother's Day is the day to honor mothers. That's where his accurate statements end.
Look, I loved my mother more than I can say, and I love my wife, mother to four, grandmother to six - also more than I can say. Both women have added more value to my life than I have words to describe. But so did my Dad, as I have written many times, and my grandfathers.
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These days, so many groups are getting entire months. In fact, the whole thing is getting a bit silly; it seems every month that goes by, we are called upon more and more to rush out and put up some new flag and shout the praises of some group X. But a lot of people don't care about group (insert name) and are a bit peeved at finger-wagging slobs chastizing us for showing insufficient zeal for Middle-Aged Lesbian Dental Assistants of Color Month.
But we all have Dads and Moms. Moms have Mother's Day, and they deserve it, along with all the love we can shower on them. But can't we Dads have our day without some finger-wagging slob trying to diminish that, too? Enough is enough.
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