The Radical Left’s War on Fatherhood – Kidlit Edition

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A year ago I wrote about The Radical Left’s War on Fatherhood. In that post I weighed in on a few semi related topics – a Vlogger using her own racism to be a Fatherhood Denier, the death of the TV Dad, and a Father’s Day gift that was very cool but left room for interpretation. Today we’re looking at two examples of how today’s written word targeted at young adults is anti-Father.

Exhibit A is the popular comic strip Big Nate. Big Nate is a 6th grade boy who lives the middle school life – he has a girlfriend, plays baseball and hockey (usually pretty badly), has a mischievous dog that rarely listens to Nate, and frequently gets in trouble in school. It’s a pretty funny comic strip – both Little Bob and I read Nate’s appearance in the Sunday comics, and Little Bob enjoys Nate’s book compilations. One of the streaming services turned Nate into an animated series, but but LB and I agreed after a few episodes that while it wasn’t bad, it never lived up to the comics. But none of this is why I’m mentioning Nate.

For reasons that are never explained (or at least I’ve never seen), Nate has no mom in the picture. Since the comic has been around since 1991, I’m assuming her absence by death or divorce gets explained somewhere down the line. More significantly, as you’ve probably figured out, Nate is being raised by a single dad. He’s a skinny, bald dude with a beard, and is only seen as the butt of jokes. I get that his is a comic strip, but his sometimes appearing grandfather never gets the disrespectful treatment. Exactly the kind of picture of fatherhood a Marxist would want to give adolescent boys.

Next we move on to the Spy School books. The books follow Ben Ripley, a seemingly average middle school kid who is suddenly recruited into a CIA spy school. While his math skills seem to be the reason for this, it later turns out to be a mistaken identity. Ben is brought in by a James Bond-esque elegantly dressed, smooth talking operative. Ben is almost instantly introduced to the book’s Girl Boss, a pretty girl a few years older who is apparently the star pupil of the school. The book is actually pretty good, as was it’s first sequel, Spy Camp, a summer camp version of the original. While Ben sometimes plays the annoying new trope of “Man-sel in distress” to Girl Boss, it’s not overbearing. Where they go off the rails in both books is the treatment of fathers. or one in particular. Ben’s dad is fine, but we learn that Girl Boss has a certain disdain for James Bond Dude, who turns out to be her father. At the end of the first book Ben saves the day, and James Bond dad takes the opportunity to steal the credit. Ben loses all respect for James Bond, and in the second book we learn more.

Spy Camp is another fun book, and I enjoyed it. The book also introduces Girl Boss’ grandfather, the OG who comes out of retirement to help get the team out of trouble. Grandfather is nasty and contemptuous of his son, James Bond Dude, for turning into such an empty suit. But Grandfather loves Girl Boss, for being the amazing granddaughter he always wanted. Conversations reveal that Grandfather put so much pressure on his son that James Bond Dude was never able to satisfy his dad, which led him to become a champion bull(snot)er. And his insecurities made him a crappy father to Girl Boss, who has no respect for her dad. I read this book to the end, while Little Bob got bored & abandoned it halfway through. I was OK with that.

So what’s the significance of all of this? As I pointed out in my post from last year, fatherhood is under attack in in various forms in our pop culture. Destroying fatherhood is part of the Marxist pillar of replacing the family with the state. If that sounds like some conspiracy theory, it was part of BLM’s web site until they realized the bad optics were a good reason to take it down. I’m not going to go too deep here, but it’s a lot easier to replace the family with Marxism without strong fathers. And that doesn’t happen overnight – denigrating fatherhood while suffocating any role models for growing boys is part of the long game that the Marxists play. While I don’t have an answer at the moment, calling it out is a start.

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Brother Bob is no longer on Facebook (although you can see his archives there), and is back on Twitter again, but is ramping up on Minds and Gab, and has his biggest presence on MeWe.

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