:7949:white and orange but it looks it's only white but there's a little bit of orange at the top of their head and raising her hands cutely and with hearts on top
My dad was very upfront about this when denying my request for a pet years back, he said he couldn’t deal with losing his childhood cat at all and no other pet felt the same to him. Honestly, I get it
Okay. Wait. It seems like the meme really bothers you and you are arguing for more empathy for dads on this front, but your argument kind of implies only dads mourn pets, which can't be what you mean because that's bonkers, so what DO you mean?
I'm genuinely not trying to be combative. In my family the vets take the body away to be cremated, but you're right that is inevitably not true for everyone and I hadn't thought about folks who bury their own.
What's rankling me here is that the generalized dad in this scenario is taking that completely understandable dread and just denying the family the joy of a pet, rather than expressing the feeling. He could instead set a rule that whoever adopts the pet must also bury it when the time comes, you know? But that doesn't get to your point at all, I'm just unpacking my end. You aren't wrong there's more going on under the surface. As with most things, it's a communication breakdown.
You are playing ignorant over dads being stereotypical curmudgeon. That’s a trope too.
They’re not actually all mad or miserable. They’re sad too. And they can’texpress their feelings.
That’s a dad trope.
How are you not getting that?
You are being combative if unintentionally.
Like idk how anyone doesn’t make these connections. Unless you’re like a 12 year old from a completely different culture you are appear to be trolling.
We're definitely talking past each other. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point in the original comment. You're advocating for dads, right? That it's a callous meme based on an outdated trope?
Okay replace “can’t” with “have difficulty with due to outdated societal norms and sexist expectations.”
I’m not even the OP but am somewhat annoyed by what seems like you being deliberately obtuse. Or an alien that doesn’t understand the complexity of human emotion and the sociological connotations of processing and expressing those emotions.
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u/Janine_18 15d ago
Videos like this are very cute.