I’m grateful for my dad’s unabashed sense of self as the ultimate girl dad
SalonFor some unknown reason, perhaps owing to the shock of becoming a new parent in a matter of seconds, this is what my dad uttered the moment I first saw daylight in the late winter of 1998. But while my dad certainly has clearly delineated interests – many of which harmlessly tend toward gender normativity – he’s never been precious about what he likes or how he presents himself to the world. As he dragged a brush through my hair, sweeping it upward, Dad’s pale blue eyes glimmered with a dogged focus, like a cooking show contestant adding the final garnishes to their plate. It’s always been the case that when my brother — or any of us for that matter — acted defiantly or challenged our mom’s logic that Dad would simply reexplain what she had said and succinctly advise him to listen. In the summer of 2022, Jim Harbaugh, the head coach of the University of Michigan’s football team, told an ESPN writer something that my dad — and many other people — found rather shocking.
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