What makes something Dad? Is it pleated Dockers? A worn baseball cap? Asking (again) if you’ve checked your oil? Incompetency in the domestic sphere paired with competency outside of it? I’ve long loved thinking through both the serious and the ridiculous of Dad Culture, and for today’s episode, we have an actual scholar of it (Phil Maciak, currently hard at work on a Dad Culture book) to unpack the history and theory of Dadness, including: do you have to be a dad to be part of Dad Culture (no) is Dad Culture just white middle-class boomer dads (also no) and is Bandit from Bluey too good of a Dad (maybe). Listen on, and let’s Dad It Up.
Show Notes:
We’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:
HISTORICAL ROMANCE (will neither confirm nor deny that we have a co-host whose confirmation made Melody faint)
Fan Fiction — Past, Present, Future
Dark Academia
How cookbooks get made
Spiritual care for non-religious people
Cleaning Culture especially “cleanliness as moral”
Anything you need advice or want musings on for the AAA segment — WE REALLY NEED MORE!! You can ask about anything, it’s literally the name of the segment!
You can submit them (and ideas for future eps) here
For today’s discussion: What’s Peak Dad to you??
