Why exactly do we still celebrate Father's Day?

[Pedro de San Patricio]

I didn't want to ask on the day itself, but this is one subject where the feminists are right for once. It has no real history, being literally made up about a hundred years ago by commercial interests for the sole purpose of drumming up business. Even if that weren't the case and it were a real holiday, it would still be totally unnecessary. Fatherhood is a full time occupation. Spending time with your baby momma and chirrin should be the norm anyway. If you need to set aside a specific day to remember to be with your family then you're doing it wrong.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Why exactly do we celebrate mothers day?

 

[hortysir]

I didn't want to ask on the day itself, but this is one subject where the feminists are right for once. It has no real history, being literally made up about a hundred years ago by commercial interests for the sole purpose of drumming up business. Even if that weren't the case and it were a real holiday, it would still be totally unnecessary. Fatherhood is a full time occupation. Spending time with your baby momma and chirrin should be the norm anyway. If you need to set aside a specific day to remember to be with your family then you're doing it wrong.

Google the name William Smart, then get back to me

 

[Sonny Clark]

I didn't want to ask on the day itself, but this is one subject where the feminists are right for once. It has no real history, being literally made up about a hundred years ago by commercial interests for the sole purpose of drumming up business. Even if that weren't the case and it were a real holiday, it would still be totally unnecessary. Fatherhood is a full time occupation. Spending time with your baby momma and chirrin should be the norm anyway. If you need to set aside a specific day to remember to be with your family then you're doing it wrong.

Pleeeeeeeeeez ............... seriously? .... give us a break here ................damn ......

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

Why exactly do we celebrate mothers day?

A woman named Anna Marie Jarvis created it as a memorial for her deceased mother. It became identified with older global traditions dating back to the kingdom of Rome.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

Google the name William Smart, then get back to me

Okay. I see an Austrian school economist. What's the relation?

 

[Coyote]

Why exactly do we celebrate mothers day?

The Greeting Card Industry.

 

[Zoom-boing]

I read Bruce Jenner celebrated fathers day.

Bizzaro world does exist!

 

[hortysir]

William Jackson Smart Historical Digression

 

[Geaux4it]

I didn't want to ask on the day itself, but this is one subject where the feminists are right for once. It has no real history, being literally made up about a hundred years ago by commercial interests for the sole purpose of drumming up business. Even if that weren't the case and it were a real holiday, it would still be totally unnecessary. Fatherhood is a full time occupation. Spending time with your baby momma and chirrin should be the norm anyway. If you need to set aside a specific day to remember to be with your family then you're doing it wrong.

I dig it. But it goes further, we have Hispanic Month, African American Month, Pacific Islander Month, and the newly added, some month having to do with transgender and gay lifestyle

But more to the point. I thought you were going to hit on the lack of fathers in the home due to divorce, or just plain deadbeats.

Fathers Day is in recognition of Fathers who are there for their kids

It's a dying breed

-Geaux

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

But more to the point. I thought you were going to hit on the lack of fathers in the home due to divorce, or just plain deadbeats.

Fathers Day is in recognition of Fathers who are there for their kids

It's a dying breed

-Geaux

Eh. I'll leave the bashing to the feminists themselves, and I guess that makes sense. I'm just saying that being there for your kids is what you're supposed to be doing anyway. It might be vanishingly rare now, but it's still the literal least you can acceptably do as someone's father. It'd be like celebrating your coworker for showing up to work every day and not leaving until after shift.

 

[mdk]

We don't have enough holidays in this nation. Let's not bitch about the ones we do have and celebrate.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

We have ten official holidays and about ten or fifteen others. That's not enough?

 

[Unkotare]

I didn't want to ask on the day itself, but this is one subject where the feminists are right for once. It has no real history, being literally made up about a hundred years ago by commercial interests for the sole purpose of drumming up business. Even if that weren't the case and it were a real holiday, it would still be totally unnecessary. Fatherhood is a full time occupation. Spending time with your baby momma and chirrin should be the norm anyway. If you need to set aside a specific day to remember to be with your family then you're doing it wrong.

Wow, what the fuck is wrong with you?

 

[Bonzi]

I didn't want to ask on the day itself, but this is one subject where the feminists are right for once. It has no real history, being literally made up about a hundred years ago by commercial interests for the sole purpose of drumming up business. Even if that weren't the case and it were a real holiday, it would still be totally unnecessary. Fatherhood is a full time occupation. Spending time with your baby momma and chirrin should be the norm anyway. If you need to set aside a specific day to remember to be with your family then you're doing it wrong.

all these holiday's were started by Hallmark to sell cards.