Ours is a zeitgeist that has increasingly minimized the role of fatherhood, in both popular culture and in certain academic disciplines (the latter sometimes attempts to define it out of existence). It is an age that has bombarded us with media portrayals of the less-fair sex as being populated by buffoons, cretins, and incompetents; where jocular chauvinists and potential predators lurk behind every five o’clock shadow; where even things like basic exercise or accommodations to fundamental anatomy are attacked.
It can be exhausting.
It has been exhausting.