With Father's Day around the corner (consider this a friendly reminder, go get him a tie or something), baby daddies around the country will be getting a Hallmark card, an Applebee's gift card, or at least a phone call to recognize all those times they ordered pizzas and let their kids wear pajamas all day when mom…
In yet another desperate attempt to humanize their father, the Romney sons released a Father's Day video in which they detail all of the fun times they had with their dad. Guess what? The good times centered entirely around pranking each other. Oh, and for some mysterious reason also involved him nicknaming one of…
Your dad might be great and all, but can he give birth to whole cloud of babies at once?
This vintage McDonalds commercial illustrates the Very Special Bond of dads and daughters. Keep it in mind when you're hanging out with your dad tomorrow, or if you don't have a dad, watch it on loop until you feel like you do.
A woman named Tanya Quaife, now grown and working at nonprofit for LGBT homeless youth in Los Angeles, tells the complicated story of her father on Salon in a piece rife with bitterness, sensationalism (sentences like "The detective told me my father's penis had shrunk to the size of a seahorse," a number of disgusted…
I don't have any scientific proof on hand, but I feel like I've still never seen a study that says fathers clean more or do more child-rearing stuff than mothers. I know there are exceptions, but I'm talking on the whole. Women are often expected to be like, Here, take it all, take everything I've got because now I'm…
If you were raised by a dad, or are raising kids with a dad right now, or are a dad yourself, or have ever met a dad, you probably would not say that fathers are worthless. And, you would obviously be right, they're worth a lot; they're just not worth quite as much as mothers—at least that is what a strange new survey…
These days there's a discount to be found for just about any service, so perhaps we should not be surprised that Groupon has started offering a deal in New York City to name your baby for you. True, this is likely a Father's Day PR stunt, but still it's fun to consider the possibility of paying them to decide your…
This Father's Day, we thought it important to give a nod to America's quintessential embarrassing father figure — Clark from the National Lampoon's Family Vacation movies. Chevy Chase, we thank you.
Malia Obama turns thirteen next month, meaning our President will officially be the father of a teenager. He doesn't seem too worried: of his girls, he says, "I have men with guns that surround them often." And thus Obama joins the ranks of the Scary Dad.
When Tom Matlack of the Good Men Project asked a number of famous men to describe their fathers in two words, he received responses that ranged from "vodka and charm" to "inherently good." My description: "Clark Griswold." What's yours? [GoodMenProject]
Just in time for Father's Day, Mandles come in scents like "Fart" and "Freedom." Freedom smells like cinnamon, by the by. [The Sexist via Hysteria]
It's Father's Day, which gives me an excuse to post the best Cosby Show scene ever, wherein Cliff gives Theo some tough love and teaches him a few lessons about the economy and life in the real world.
[Alexandria, VA. June 20. Image via AP.]
As Father's Day approaches, guys are complaining about getting the shaft — in terms of presents, and in the weightier matter of reproductive rights.
In an excerpt of an essay in the upcoming issue of Parade magazine (full text available Sunday), Barack Obama talks about what it means to be a dad.
We meant to include this clip in our Lisa Simpson feminist montage, but we totally forgot to add it. (Oops!) But no harm done, because it actually is the perfect thing to post at the end of this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week, as it's all about Father's Day and unicorns(!). Lisa decides to make a heartfelt…
In honor of Father's Day this weekend, there is a slew of articles about modern fatherhood, most notably the the cover story of the New York Times Magazine coming out this Sunday about "equal parenting." Lisa Belkin, who has covered the life and work beat for the styles section for a decade now, interviews several…
