Mavutu Conversations – Daddy Issues
Father’s Day is coming up, and I would like to talk about how it often comes up, especially in conversations about women dating and supposedly overloving someone. There is something wrong with how we speak about absent fathers. The language itself shows who we choose to blame and who we allow to walk away without... The post Mavutu Conversations – Daddy Issues appeared first on New Era .
Father’s Day is coming up, and I would like to talk about how it often comes up, especially in conversations about women dating and supposedly overloving someone. There is something wrong with how we speak about absent fathers. The language itself shows who we choose to blame and who we allow to walk away without being questioned.
When a father is not present, whether emotionally or physically, the focus does not stay on him. It moves quickly to the daughter. She is the one people talk about.
She is the one people analyse. She is the one people reduce to a label. We say she has daddy issues.This term is used so easily, as if it were nothing serious.
