Men We Love

Dads & Daughters first came to my attention on some PBS show during the day when I was contracting from home. Since I've noticed that I keep going back to their site when I need comfort from a scary world, I thought I should share.

The organization doesn't just encourage dads to be good to their daughters. It also encourages them to speak up in advocating for girls' issues, such as Title IX and damaging media imagery:

DADs inspires fathers to actively and deeply engage in the lives of their daughters and galvanizes fathers and others to transform the pervasive cultural messages that devalue girls and women.

Too often, cultural and media messages bombard our daughters with the notion that how they look is more important than who they are.

DADs will lend its voice to calls for greater public policy attention to girls' health issues (like tobacco use, eating disorders, etc.).

In the interview I saw, one of the founders explained some of their activist strategies. As men in our culture, they knew they might be able to get more access to decision-makers in corporations. They also knew they could talk with folks like that on a father to father basis, a persuasive tool that other organizations or activists might not have.

It was one of the best answers I've ever heard to the question "So what do I do with the privilege I get from society?"