Details Goes Through the Looking Glass
Posted on 06. Feb, 2008 by Brian Reid in General
Lately, I’ve been torn about Details. The magazine has spilled lots of ink on the topic of fatherhood (which is a good thing), but produced what has been some of the most inane articles on the topic of dads ever written (which is not so good). Mostly, Details seems torn between the obvious importance of dadhood to the modern man and the pub’s instinctual chest-thumping viewpoint of masculinity.
So I kept waiting for their latest first-person piece on fatherhood — a thoughtful piece on the challenge of being a sensitive new-age guy raising an old-school, rough-and-tumble boy — to dissolve into some sort of cooler-than-thou claptrap. But it doesn’t. So credit to Details for going against type (though I could have stood to have the piece slugged anything other than “girly dads.”)
(un)relaxeddad
06. Feb, 2008
Interesting - that does seem to be the challenge I seem to be increasingly facing myself. Though the real challenge is dealing with a world of rough and tumble other dads.
Chad too
06. Feb, 2008
Heh. You said “slugged.” You’re such a J-school geek!
jenell
08. Feb, 2008
Just want to say that I love this blog! I’m a professor-mom, and my husband is a stay-at-home dad for our three boys (2-yr-old twins, 10 mos baby). It’s a different kind of life, and I’m glad I have a few good friends parenting in the same way. And I’m glad for voices like yours out there. Keep blogging!