Site Meter Reflections on Playboy: If Fathers’ Day makes you sick, I’ve got some reading material for you

June 19, 2009

If Fathers’ Day makes you sick, I’ve got some reading material for you

If the guy who fucks your mother doesn’t exactly put you in a Hallmark Card frame of mind, let’s commiserate in protest of this unjustified holiday. Take wicked inspiration from the filial impiety of my blog:

The Teenage Liberation Repayment Plan™
Thanks for, um, the Y chromosome, Dad
I deeply resent my schooling—and you should resent yours

Posted by Brian Sorgatz at 5:46 PM

  • Anonymous Dave in Willits left this comment at June 20, 2009 10:42 PM  
    Hey Brian,

    I find myself wanting to know more specifics of what your parents (particularly your dad) put you through during your formative years. I get from the "Y Chromosome" post that there was some sexual weirdness (though it does not sound like actual molestation) and from the "reverse puritan" one that your puberty challenges were a source of humour.

    Forgive my prying, but the picture is still rather vague to me and I wonder if you'd care to share more, or if there are other posts you could point me towards.

    Thanks!

  • Blogger Beeezo left this comment at June 21, 2009 5:31 AM  
    Is fathers day, not as important as mothers day....? You must not like your dad at all.

  • Anonymous Raquel left this comment at June 21, 2009 9:31 AM  
    Dave, Beeezo, what don't you get? Not everybody has bright and shiny relationships with their parents. There's obviously some deep issue that Brian has with his Daddy not-so-dearest and he's making light of the issue. I have often gone to Hallmark wishing that there was a card section marked "how I really really feel" that contained cards with not so nice messages instead of fake crap poetry about how so-and so is the most amazing whatever in the whole world. I don't hate my Dad, but I do think that what Brian wrote is funny. Appreciate his dark humor about failed relationships and just relax.

  • Blogger Brian Sorgatz left this comment at June 21, 2009 6:08 PM  
    Well said, Raquel. As a creative work, a blog post is like a painting or a song. People can debate what it really means, but at the end of the day, it simply means itself. However, two points might help clarify things for Dave and Beeezo:

    1.) Parenting technique is overemphasized as a shaper of children’s destinies. Judith Rich Harris has named this fallacy the Nurture Assumption. The predominant environmental factor shaping our personalities in childhood is the children we play and go to school with, not our parents. My bitterness towards my father is probably a side effect of my hostility towards the other boys at school. I resented being forced to hang out with those assholes, and I carried this hostility from the schoolyard to the male authority figure at home.

    2.) The things I hate about my upbringing may not differ much from the usual upbringing of American children, but I think it does me credit that I’m willing to complain about situations that others resign themselves to. A squeaky wheel gets greased.

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