Weekly BlogScan: Dad Day Afternoon

Hero. Competitor. Protector. Queller-with-a-glance of teenage pretensions. Model of manliness. Woodshed punisher. Father, Papa, Daddy, Pop, Dad. Sunday is Father's Day, and many of us in the blogosphere are making plans to honor or placate the Big Guy.

I start with Rebel Dad, whose blog "puts the stay-at-home dad trend under the microscope." He has recently inveighed against the reality show Meet Mr. Mom, because it presents such a twisted version of Dads. R.D.'s top two assumptions the show makes, which doom it to fail:

1. It assumes that raising kids is a terrible job. But most of the working dads I know would see a week alone with their children as a good (if exhausting) opportunity.
2. It assumes that men suck at caregiving...

Another at-home Dad is Mike, the TruckinDaddy, who gloats over his score in a junkyard search that replaced his "To Do" list of home chores on his other blog, AtHomeDaddy.

Daddy, make a picture sings the praises of a wise life-partner in Why I'm glad I married you—reason number 7,543,234:

Me: You do have batteries.
     Big Brother: I do NOT!
Me: Do so!!!
     BB: DO NOT!!!
Me (yelling upstairs): Mommy…..
     Mommy (yelling downstairs): Yes?
Me: Do the kids have batteries?
     Mommy (after thinking it through): Yes. And take his out.

    Luke, I have formatted your hard disk. (NOo-o!)Father doesn't always know best. The computer-deficient Dad is a stereotype, perhaps because his number is Legion. According to Computer Stupidities, letting Dad play with your computer is dangerous, but hilarious. "My Dad: 'Ok, so I go into the Microsoft...' It usually takes two or three guesses to determine which Microsoft application he's in." (Mincing Words) And: "My best friend's family recently bought a new computer. They had all the hardware set up and the software ready to be installed when the stepdad picks up the Windows 95 box and says to his wife: 'How do they get the box into the computer?'... Apparently he thought that to install software you had to get the box in there somehow." (The Bleeding Obvious)

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