Sure, if I can convince my wife to stay home and my kid that they’d rather go with me. Assuming I can pull that off I’d immediately go buy a mega-millions ticket.
Because it’s no longer a father-daughter dance. It’s just a dance. It would be like getting rid of senior prom and just having an annual school dance everyone’s invited too.
So exclude all little girls without dad’s from the dance because some dad’s might get left out when they can’t convince their wives to stay home?
Really sounds like that guy had his intense bonding experience ruined.
Are you under the impression that allowing mom’s into a kids dance REQUIRES mom’s to show up?
My dance last week was a father daughter dance. I, the father, took my daughter to a dance.
I promise we didn’t dance or bond less because other kids brought their moms
More like ruin a tradition because some dead beat dad left and it might hurt someone’s feelings.
But, I get it, we must never hurt anyone’s feelings it’s just not fair.
It doesn’t require them to show up, but it will be just another dance and moms will show up. I don’t know how else to explain this. It didn’t seem to stick with the boy scouts it doesn’t seem to be sticking with father-daughter dances.
In fact, why even do a father-daughter dance at all? That’s not fair to moms and sons. What if there are little boys who don’t have moms? When will they get a dance?
You said it was a valentines day dance and I’m happy you and your daughter had a good time.
Some? You seem to misunderstand the depth of the single mom epidemic
Except all these imaginary dad’s that can’t bond with their daughters anymore, wherever they might be hiding.
My daughter’s school calls it a ‘family dance’ and is much more popular of a concept than mother/son father/daughter, for the exact reason you just listed
It was, and I’d press anyone to explain to me why I shouldn’t think of it as a father daughter dance, in which the father took his daughter to a danc
Edit: fwiw, the official branding was ‘family dance’ but since it quacks like a duck the week before vday with hearts on the wall, I calls em as I sees em
No one said dad’s can’t bond with their daughters. Many dad’s, and daughters, look forward to a special event they share, but their feelings are irrelevant it seems.
Wonderful. All inclusive everything from now on. We must’n leave anyone out ever.
When has Valentine’s day ever been about men/fathers?
Exactly … that’s what steak and bj day is for
I’m still fuzzy in why these people can’t share the event if another kid brings his mom
Maybe it’s best we just agree to disagree. We’re clearly going in circles.
The kids sure seem to like it. To your point I didn’t bother asking the dad’s how their bonding had been ruined by adult women being present
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Agreed.
Whut?
Completely different topic, but, being as your a father of daughters and what appears to be a big fan of inclusivity, how do you feel about women being forced to sign up for the draft?
Uh, love the fact that this thread is living up to its name.
Not sure if this is pertinent to your conversation with usmc BUT…
I’m not sure, and it hasn’t been explained, why another dance can’t be created that aligns with what you’re saying all the while keeping the father daughter dance as is…
Why does it seem like the implication here is that the father/daughter dance HAS to be REPLACED rather than two competing and/or independent models exist? They don’t even have to be schedule to take place at the same time…
I guess what I’m saying que no los dos?
100% on board if a draft sign up exists.
Full disclosure. I also feel very very few women are truly suited for combat roles and have absolute faith that the strongest military in the history of the planet wouldn’t put my daughter(s) in the front line if they couldn’t hang.
I’d be totally on board with that
I’m wildly guessing, but I’d assume this is man hours/budget related
Because the existence of a father-daughter dance might hurt the feelings of girls without dads and we can not risk hurting anyone’s feelings (except present father’s and their daughters it seems); therefore, we can not have an event that caters to this group at the exclusivity of anyone. Everyone has to be included in all events at all times.
Try and keep up, shesh.
Boys are required to sign up for selective service when they turn 18 and politicians and bureaucrats have decided women do indeed belong in combat roles against the advice of many military leaders because it’s not fair to women.
The strongest military just got weaker because of feelings.
Think we went full circle. My point is simple, when people aren’t included in events or situations rather than create and/or find a group, that meets their needs, OR be inconvenienced for a reasonable amount of time, they seek to change something that isn’t inherently wrong or an issue.
I’m aware. I’m 100% on board, but I think it’s about fairness to the men forced to sign up.
I also think forcing women to sign up for the draft will defacto kill the draft (that I don’t agree with the existence of) Ignoring that it’s basically dead already
How is it fair that men are forced to sign up for possible conscription and women not? Particularly, in light of the fact that all combat roles have been opened up to women.
How could it possibly kill the draft? If we ever enter another major conflict there’ll be another draft. It hasn’t been that long since we’ve used it and there hasn’t been a conflict that required it since then.
It’s not. That’s what I was saying. If one gender has to register both should imo
I think the negative optics of a draft have already rendered it useless and unusable. Add in the potential to draft some attractive women who’s face can be plastered as a ‘victim of someone else’s war’ and it’s RIPPPP
Oh, gotcha. I misread your response.
I guess we won’t know this until it happens.
Little kid dances serious business yo. This is why we need a wall, to keep women away from the father/daughter dance!