Darby Saxbe

Boys can benefit from someone who shares their gender that they can look up to.

And girls can also benefit from seeing, you know, there are good men out there in the world.

But that can come through a teacher, through a clergy member, through a community member.

Like it doesn't necessarily have to come from the parents.

Yeah, it's a great question.

And there was actually a culture critic sociologist who looked at how TV dads are categorized and found that in a majority of sitcoms, dads are depicted as humorously foolish.

So it's like the classic, like Homer Simpson, like figure of fun.

I do think like we don't necessarily have a lot of great cultural models of really good hands-on dads.

It's like the actual dads I see on the street are better than a lot of the dads I see on TV.

Yeah.

Like that's something we should be thinking about rectifying as a culture.

So like, I don't know how big your TV writer audience is, but here's a pitch.

I mean, the seahorse can get pregnant.

The male seahorse can get pregnant.

So it develops this brood pouch and it can fertilize eggs.

So, I mean, it's hard to compete with that.

There are species where males are primary parents.

Frog dads are great.

Like a lot of frogs are either biparental or dads are doing a lot of the care.

And frog dads will like locate all their babies and like bring food or tell the mother to bring them stuff to eat.