It really is. It actually makes me sad. I'm the grown daughter of a father who sounds a lot like the person you responded to. I love my dad and it's a complicated relationship as he really doesn't think he's a misogynist, he truly believes he's just "telling it like it is."
It made me furious for years and now it deeply saddens me. He will never have the chance to truly know his daughter because he is literally incapable of seeing me as an equal in terms of basic humanity. And that is sad because I'm delightful and smart and wickedly funny when I'm comfortable with someone, he doesn't get to see the authentic version of his own offspring, what a loss...
Very recent, I'm still in the glowy happy haze of it. My partner and I just got married and we've got an old, fixer-upper property that we plan to make into our own haven of weirdness haha I'm excited to keep building this wild life together.
It really is. It actually makes me sad. I'm the grown daughter of a father who sounds a lot like the person you responded to. I love my dad and it's a complicated relationship as he really doesn't think he's a misogynist, he truly believes he's just "telling it like it is."
It made me furious for years and now it deeply saddens me. He will never have the chance to truly know his daughter because he is literally incapable of seeing me as an equal in terms of basic humanity. And that is sad because I'm delightful and smart and wickedly funny when I'm comfortable with someone, he doesn't get to see the authentic version of his own offspring, what a loss...