re: #68 EmmmieG

Gotta go, got kids showing up here soon, but there is one thing bothering me.

Leaving aside the blatant racism of the piece, I’ve always thought we needed another word for men who create a pregnancy and then fail to do anything for their offspring.

I know so many men who give everything they have for their children, both biological and adopted. They provide, protect, love, and occasionally provide the critical nose-to-nose talk that children sometimes need. (And, of course, the Monster-in-the-middle, Tickle-monster, Daddy-gonna-get-you game that psychologists have actually proven plays an important role for kids.)

To use the same name for them and for men who abandon their children is an insult. We need another word. Not sire; that belongs to animals.

Is “sperm bank” too harsh for these men?