The whole thing doesn’t make any goddamn sense. If the guy wants to volunteer to women’s shelter, go for it what the fuck does that have to do with Father’s Day?
I’m purely speculating on this, but it’s possible they don’t have a good relationship with their father (e.g. could have been abusive to their mother) and they therefore want to do something to help women in similar situations rather than honour their father that day.
This is the least weird thing … as a father, I always preferred an activity with my kids to celebrate Father’s Day, especially something that makes a difference, something that celebrates caring and protecting, and encourages my children to develop habits that care and protect. We generally did something like wilderness cleanup, or clean up grounds at community centers.
As my kids become adults and have less need of care and protection, it would be easy to say that Father’s Day no longer applies. But it applies to me if I say it does: taking care of people doesn’t just disappear. In the last couple years I’ve been putting some thought into whether I’d continue to meaningfully celebrate Father’s Day and how.
If I were close to someone who was attacked, who I couldn’t protect, who I wasn’t able to sufficiently care for, who needed a womens shelter, why wouldn’t that be one of the possibilities?
This whole thing is beyond weird… He is not a father, so for fathers day he wants to volunteer at a women’s shelter…
Who volunteers for fathers day? Why not volunteer at a retirement home and do something for men?
Furthermore why would he need to be a father to volunteer at a women’s shelter on Fathers Day?
The whole thing doesn’t make any goddamn sense. If the guy wants to volunteer to women’s shelter, go for it what the fuck does that have to do with Father’s Day?
I’m purely speculating on this, but it’s possible they don’t have a good relationship with their father (e.g. could have been abusive to their mother) and they therefore want to do something to help women in similar situations rather than honour their father that day.
Thats good speculation, but doesn’t make it any less weird.
This is the least weird thing … as a father, I always preferred an activity with my kids to celebrate Father’s Day, especially something that makes a difference, something that celebrates caring and protecting, and encourages my children to develop habits that care and protect. We generally did something like wilderness cleanup, or clean up grounds at community centers.
As my kids become adults and have less need of care and protection, it would be easy to say that Father’s Day no longer applies. But it applies to me if I say it does: taking care of people doesn’t just disappear. In the last couple years I’ve been putting some thought into whether I’d continue to meaningfully celebrate Father’s Day and how.
If I were close to someone who was attacked, who I couldn’t protect, who I wasn’t able to sufficiently care for, who needed a womens shelter, why wouldn’t that be one of the possibilities?