In the last month I've lost count of the amount of emails pinging into my inbox all with one thing in common the title. Celebrate your dad this Father's Day one screams. Make Dad's day another exclaims promoting cheap wine and chocolate last minute gift ideas chosen especially for you.
Except really they aren't chosen especially for me are they They're generated by some computer that has no idea whether I'm close to my dad or whether I even have a father. As it happens my father died nearly eight years ago but it isn't that making those emails grate. It's how exclusive their terms are all referring to that brilliant dad who does so much. One refers vaguely to that someone special but the others keep the preserve of the nuclear family an all American all British ideal.
Sure that's true for a lot of people but in this modern family era where diverse family situations should be accepted doesn't it say something that Father's Day is still promoted in a cookie cutter holiday kind of way Anything outside the cutter doesn't quite make the grade. Funny because Father's Day isn't and shouldn't be to just celebrate our biological fathers. It's for children teenagers spouses grandchildren to celebrate that person who plays the role of a father in our lives regardless of whether we call them dad or not. I call my mum's fianc e by his first name but that doesn't mean I won't be celebrating Father's Day with him as I'm sure thousands of teenagers will be doing with their respective step fathers this Sunday.
I mean I get it I really do. Father's Day is commercialized and these companies aim to maximize on that. In the midst of all the greeting cards and emails though we shouldn't forget that Father's Day isn't a preserve of an elite group of people who have a father. Anyone who has someone who supports them in the way a Father does can celebrate it. Nowadays a father isn't so simple to define you only have to step into a high school classroom to hear about the myriad of different relationships.
So Happy Father's Day for everyone who wants to celebrate it and who should.
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