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Daddy Deserved a Better Son

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Jun 15, 2025
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Daddy Deserved a Better Son

By Paul Nathanson

[23 May 2022] My father, who died fifteen ago, had a difficult but close and even intense relationship with me. From my perspective as a boy and young man, he seemed overly judgmental. I grew up thinking that I could never make the grade in his eyes, never be good enough to satisfy his lofty expectations of me…

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Academic: comparative religion / ethics. Research: political ideologies (feminism but also wokism and other ideologies on both the Left and the Right) as "secular religions." Misandry (and misogyny) as moral problems.
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