{"id":3175,"date":"2013-01-14T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2013-01-14T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T20:34:14","slug":"can-dads-do-anything-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=3175","title":{"rendered":"Can Dads Do Anything Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw this<\/a> just now and followed the link. It’s related to a recent car commercial where a father and son are tossing a baseball together. The boy has horribly throwing form and the father is being patient and encouraging, only to reveal that he has worse<\/em> throwing form than his son. So they sit there together tossing it back and forth next to this car.<\/p>\n

To be honest, until I read the above links, I had no idea<\/em> it was for a Passat.<\/p>\n

I was actually talking about this commercial with the Wife and a friend yesterday. They both had theories about what the point of the commercial was- linking to the fact that it was a rugged car and people could comfortably throw a baseball next to it with horrible form.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think it’s one of the genre of commercials where something amusing happens but you can’t for the life of you remember what the commercial was for. There are tons of these out there with clever little punch-liney setups, but don’t really have anything to do with product being sold. So, while the marketing firm gets an ‘A’ for creating a memorable TV moment, they get an ‘F’ for creating a useless ad- because no one can remember what the heck they’re selling after it’s over.<\/p>\n

As for the stereotyping of Dads, well, see my previous post for whether or not we can be useful. For that matter, peruse the bread<\/a> category or the woodworking<\/a> category to get a feel for my personal answer. I also remember my own Father’s handiness while we were growing up- it’s the stuff of legend around our family. Not that everything went like clockwork, but “buffoon” is not a word you’d use to describe my Dad. I’ll let my kids judge me when the time comes.<\/p>\n

More generally, to be honest, this sort of stuff rarely bothers me and when it does it’s more a fatigue of seeing the same silliness over and over. Everybody Loves Raymond<\/em> was funny for about 2 episodes for me, then it was tedious, then it was uninteresting. I reckon that show made it’s living on the “Dad as buffoon” theme.<\/p>\n

There’s also something a little unseemly about getting all upset about how Hollywood portrays Dads. I mean, do I need Hollywood to reaffirm the fact that I’m not a doofus? Hardly, and I can’t imagine the day will ever come that it does concern me. They need their story material, and apparently there’s a niche for this kind of thing. I think Dads do themselves more good by simply laughing it off, rather than playing an identity politics game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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