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(DIR) Post #Aq4OaZBtPM4R93UCjA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T10:26:19Z
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If no one ever called anyone "the father of *" where * is some area of study or field ever again... I would be so happy. It always gives me the creeps when people use that turn of phrase. Just say "a founding figure in *" or "a leader in laying the foundations of *" or really anything else.Heck, why not call them "the most successful alate of *" ?
(DIR) Post #Aq4OimHUcdzO3p1Mci by ShiitakeToast@beige.party
2025-01-14T10:27:46Z
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@futurebird Most of the time there’s also someone in history who thought of it before
(DIR) Post #Aq4P0YOL0CFmCAhOHw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T10:31:01Z
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@angelastella @ShiitakeToast It's not just the erasure of complexity that bugs me. It's making people into "dads" all over the place. It's creepy. Stop it.
(DIR) Post #Aq4PPV8uDc6rMINPVo by ShiitakeToast@beige.party
2025-01-14T10:35:30Z
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@futurebird @angelastella 😂 “he’s the daddy of the field of...” or worse, “he is best known for having sired the study of...”
(DIR) Post #Aq4Q7cBHPa67vfWQQS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T10:43:30Z
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How about a compromise? People can keep call guys "the father of bivalves" or whatever HOWEVER you have to say "the dad of bivalves" Just change it to "dad" in every case. The people who want everything to have a "father" get to do what they want and the rest of us get to giggle.
(DIR) Post #Aq4R5tRSMgUuq0pbxw by Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social
2025-01-14T10:54:21Z
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@futurebird the quality of fatherhood in this era was particularly awful and in many cases justifiably criminal today. Not all men, but in many cases so many that the good ones who did NOT teach bigotry, violence, and the submission of women, those who did NOT were a minority that was often subject to abuse themselves.
(DIR) Post #Aq4RBz6yCMiA9w9aVs by Makyris@friendsofdesoto.social
2025-01-14T10:55:25Z
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@futurebird *lol*
(DIR) Post #Aq4RS1s9hV4ZM7sJ3w by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-01-14T10:58:22Z
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@futurebird Not "daddy", though - then it's right back to creepy... 😝
(DIR) Post #Aq4Rbly3gmgGvLHY7U by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2025-01-14T11:00:06Z
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@futurebird I vote for 'pops' and it must always be said with a southern drawl. As in 'Socrates, he right there is the pops of philosophy'.
(DIR) Post #Aq4RiOH2BHTTSvJUcS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T11:01:21Z
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Trying to make everything have a dad reminds me of how people also like to put faces on everything. Like those children books where every object has a face.
(DIR) Post #Aq4RjzTBNB137Gl5nc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T11:01:40Z
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@david_chisnall grandpappy
(DIR) Post #Aq4RvTk99ldyC4Ah5k by JamesWidman@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T10:52:11Z
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@hipsterelectron @futurebird startup daddies
(DIR) Post #Aq4RvV8dyApiWKdlui by JamesWidman@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T11:01:35Z
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@hipsterelectron @futurebird (slight tangent: i know it's not a good sign when a sentence starts with something like, "i know the u.s. isn't north korea, buuuuuuuut..." ...to my ears, "founding father" somehow sounds at least as creepy as "dear leader". Like... it somehow goes beyond *merely* presuming reverence for someone who was objectively terrible on several axes.)
(DIR) Post #Aq4RvWDzvki5tE9Ytk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T11:03:31Z
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@JamesWidman @hipsterelectron Totally. It's bizarre and deeply antique, and then bizarre again how people don't seem to notice that it's bizarre.
(DIR) Post #Aq4TfcPlLiKeMVCahs by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-01-14T11:23:13Z
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@futurebird It’s strange how the diminutive “dad” sounds funny to us or is used pejoratively (“dad jokes”, “dad bod”, etc). Because I am not my stepkids’ father, but I am their dad. And I own that proudly, along with my dad bod and dad jokes.
(DIR) Post #Aq4TunYqBnifH9gd04 by catselbow@fosstodon.org
2025-01-14T11:25:59Z
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@futurebird Pop psychology
(DIR) Post #Aq4U7ioT9ZA2Ja9v4C by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T11:28:21Z
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@catselbow Sometimes a dad is just a dad. (autocorrect kept trying to make me type “sometimes a dad id just a dad” don’t know *what* to make of that.)
(DIR) Post #Aq4UBbbLuKrn6gsLa4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T11:29:00Z
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@hal_pomeranz There is more honor in being a dad IMO.
(DIR) Post #Aq4UZHhpWwJALtCFUG by jandi@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T11:33:17Z
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@futurebird Pareipatria?
(DIR) Post #Aq4VjxfqRu6fMavHyy by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-01-14T11:45:53Z
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@futurebird “Father” is biology, “dad” is emotional investment and responsibility. Plenty of examples of one without the other (both ways).
(DIR) Post #Aq4WUOP3P2KJaED212 by catselbow@fosstodon.org
2025-01-14T11:54:47Z
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@futurebird Freudaddian slip
(DIR) Post #Aq4avOqYGH8MauCk0e by earthchild@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T12:44:30Z
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@futurebird I have a folder in my directory named 'Groundbreakers', which works great for either M/F. Mine just happens to be filled with info on 100's of noteworthy women ;)
(DIR) Post #Aq4fsNRpVNQz9s1FQ0 by Lyle@cville.online
2025-01-14T13:39:50Z
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@futurebird While urban planning isn’t perfect, at least we aren’t constantly honoring a daddy
(DIR) Post #Aq4nCFeusCCKTKZ2cy by SoniEx2@chaos.social
2025-01-14T15:02:01Z
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@futurebird alan turing, the daddy of computers ... wait.
(DIR) Post #Aq4qdYxHXPx601rwqO by keithpjolley@discuss.systems
2025-01-14T15:40:33Z
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@futurebird i'm going to start using "the sire of..." or "the dam of..." just to make everyone around me (even more) uncomfortable.