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SMNTY Classics: Daddy Issues

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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In a 1995 interview, playwright Tony Kushner said, my anger may be edible mommy and daddy issues, but it's politically and dramatulurgically useful. In the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath, she declares she is over her daddy issues after she kills them at the end of the poem. Barney describes the perfect one nightstand as a woman with daddy issues in his new show "Barney" He says anyone can have daddy issues - just generally assumed to be a woman.

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