This weekend in Australia, we celebrate Father’s Day. I often ponder the way men are maligned in today’s society. You see TV ads, mostly making men out to be stupid bogans, who don’t know the first thing about feminine hygiene products and stick them on their heads to look like Darth Vader or having the emotional intelligence of gnats. True, there are some men, that are just like that but the general stereotype does not hold.

So this weekend, as we celebrate Father’s Day let us be grateful for the men who are not afraid of intimacy, who are there supporting their children, taking a keen interest in their families’ lives and who want the very same things that women do, but may not articulate it in quite the same way. They may hide behind their macho facades or they may not even have macho facades. In my time working with many men, most of them miss their families, want to spend more time with them, but carry the mantle of supporting their families seriously and don’t always express it just the way we women think they should. So to all the dads, like mine and my husband, who look after their families and do their best for their children, thank you, happy Father’s Day!

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