Instead of “father”, people around here say “father figure”
Out of curiosity, I did a search for “father” here and got about 1,030 results. I did a search for “father figure” and got 3 results, one of which was a comment of yours. I did a search for “father figures” and got 4 results, all of which were about fictional Heinlein characters.
That seems to suggest that people around here say “father” quite a bit more often than they say “father figure.”
So, can you summarize your basis for this claim?
I mean, I don’t accept the assertion that using the phrase “father figure” endorses the position that biological fathers are unnecessary, nor that such a position is transparently false or outrageously improbable. It might be false, but it’s not obviously false; plenty of families don’t have fathers and yet don’t spontaneously implode. My own father died twenty years ago, for example, but I didn’t stop being part of a family.
But if we can’t even agree on what language people around here actually are using, it seems pointless to try and agree on what the implications of certain language use would be, were they using it.
Out of curiosity, I did a search for “father” here and got about 1,030 results.
I did a search for “father figure” and got 3 results, one of which was a comment of yours.
I did a search for “father figures” and got 4 results, all of which were about fictional Heinlein characters.
That seems to suggest that people around here say “father” quite a bit more often than they say “father figure.”
So, can you summarize your basis for this claim?
I mean, I don’t accept the assertion that using the phrase “father figure” endorses the position that biological fathers are unnecessary, nor that such a position is transparently false or outrageously improbable. It might be false, but it’s not obviously false; plenty of families don’t have fathers and yet don’t spontaneously implode. My own father died twenty years ago, for example, but I didn’t stop being part of a family.
But if we can’t even agree on what language people around here actually are using, it seems pointless to try and agree on what the implications of certain language use would be, were they using it.