A question for Dads

[Stinky The Clown]

Would you yuk it up after someone called your young adult daughter a piece of ass?

I have a 30 year old daughter. At this point in my life slugging him would not be my first thought. But my displeasure would be clear. I think I'm a fairly normal Dad. She is someone I love dearly and deeply. I don't own her. I don't want her to make me look good. I only want her to have what fulfills her.

A father who tolerates what Trump tolerated is no model of a Dad. It is unmanly. It is disgusting.

Would you tolerate such comments?

[CincyDem]

1. No way. n/t

[jberryhill]

2. I would not expect my boys to say such things either.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Nor would I. I have two sons, too. 42 and 38. They learned better than that.

They both show respect for women. More importantly, they respect their equality.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. My father died in 1992, but...

Even considering the length of time he's been gone, I know that he would be appalled. But he loved and respected women.

[regnaD kciN]

5. I said it in another thread…

…if a guy asked me if he could call my daughter a "piece of ass," my response would be to ask him if he would be able to pronounce it with his front teeth missing.

[stopbush]

6. No.

[thejoker123]

7. As a father of 2 daughters

Let me tell you something, there is something really sick about Trump when it comes to Ivanka. When he said she's got a great body and he'd probably date her if she wasn't his daughter, I nearly lost my dinner.

THOSE WORDS WOULD NEVER FORM IN THE MIND OF ANY NORMAL FATHER.

Add that to all the other comments, the creepy pictures, his clear obsession of her over his other kids, and I have no doubt in my mind if he did not abuse her, he fantasizes of it.

This is a deeply sick man.

[juxtaposed]

9. I felt the same way when I heard the 'date her if she wasn't his daughter'.

One fucked up household to grow up in.

[Skittles]

10. I agree with this assessment

Donald Trump is a pervert

[smirkymonkey]

13. Thanks for your post.

And welcome to DU!

[thejoker123]

14. Thanks!

[tblue37]

8. But that is exactly how Trump himself sees Ivanka, I believe. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

12. ...

errrm

huh?

[lonestarnot]

16. Ok so go ahead with it. What are you referring to, what did he say?

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Wutcha saying' there, bud?

Wut's on yer mind?

[LWolf]

15. I'm not a dad.

But I know my sons would neither say nor do such a thing.

[lonestarnot]

17. The fight would definitely be on were he living.

[Coyotl]

19. We need a new label, offhand "sick culture" to not be too clinical.

There is something very wrong within a society where this element of misogynistic ideation is allowed to fester. It is patriarchy run amok.

As an anthropologist, I sometimes imagine what it would be like for a traditional society member to go to the United States and study the culture, then return home to their uncontacted tribe in the Amazon and file a report. The uncontacted have people who have gone out and come back, and they choose to remain uncontacted and try to prevent the outsiders from entering their territories for good reasons. When I lived in the Amazon amidst traditional cultures, I was lectured by them on how screwed up my people were. There are people living within the laws of nature, and at the very opposite end of that spectrum we have Donald Trump in a gold-guilded penthouse in a skyscraper completely out of touch with reality. One seeks the kind of power capable of extincting the other. After living in both worlds and acculturating in traditional naturalism, I know which to fear. So do the most remote and unconquered of peoples.

The inevitable cultural revolution cannot come soon enough with the planet and our ecosystem at risk. Too bad it takes a sicko among us to help foment the long-overdue changes. We got rid of slavery, we can get rid of misogyny, gender inequality, and anti-intellectualism too. And we can do it now.