I Think There Are a Lot of Really Bad Fathers in Literature

There are plenty of fathers who are totally irredeemable in literature. I was thinking about that very stupid video that was going around Twitter of a celebrity saying that if she was Putin's mother she would have loved him like the implication is that he wouldn't have started war with Ukraine did you say that no? "I think things like that it's like this person is saying something dumb people felt very good about themselves by like mocking it sanctimoniously and I feel like it's better just to ignore it but it was really interesting wasn't it" The trope of the bad father can either be an opportunity for redeeming masculine figurehead because the absent father has gone and then this new perfect