I would guess a lot of them grew up without fathers. They have Daddy issues and they don’t even realize it.
I think they forgot to clarify that it’s Gen Z and Gen Alpha CHICKS who want to see this—not dudes (and I hope I’m wrong about the ladies).
A nation of Nancy-Boys. Hopefully there enough conservative kids who resist.
Forrest Gump was the biggest simp in the universe.
Sounds more like Gen Beta.
They THINK they do.
The Box Office is the best indicator. How much money did the Top Gun sequel make? Would it have made as much if Maverick was renamed Soyboy?
Men have been portrayed as stupid, weak and helpless for decades. Apparently we are now ready to “fix” this by forcing men to be “caring” and “vulnerable”.
Real men are not stupid enough to fall for this.
Here is a straight-up fact: Chicks hate nice guys or guys who show vulnerability. It’s never a good idea for a man to go in that direction.
John Wayne showed about all the vulnerability that a man should have, it was never too much, and always just the right amount.
Across the entire sample, the desire to see nurturing fathers versus not wanting to see them was nearly 5-to-1.
The question is not whether the respondents prefer a nurturing role versus a non-nurturing role, but whether they'd prefer seeing a nurturing role to not seeing them at all. That's a very different spin. Here's another:
Informed by youth advisors and professional storytellers, CSS integrated targeted questions into its annual 2025 Teens & Screens survey, which surveyed 1,500 adolescents (ages 10 to 24, reflecting the ages of adolescence defined by the National Academy of Sciences)
Who in the world are "youth advisors and professional storytellers"? And the NAS despite, since when did adolescence extend to 24 years of age?
One of the longest-running scams in the social sciences is that surveys such as this provide any useful data at all. This one doesn't. IMHO.
At this point, anytime a “survey” says anything one assumes that it’s just what the people who did the survey want you to think and nothing more than that. It all depends on what they ask, what the possible answers are, and who they ask.
The Winstons - Color Him Father
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPrJKUvom1s
This is how a “real” dad is, even if he’s a step-dad.
I don’t know but that these responses sound prompted.
One of the most heartwarming, family-oriented comedies just wrapped up its final episode after seven years on CBS—The Neighborhood. The show creator also did The Big Bang. It’s about a black family and a white family living next door to each other in Los Angeles, both with growing or grown sons, and the wives working in the same school. Clean humor, clever comparisons of white and black stereotypes but no preaching or wokeism, and lots of laughs. I will really miss that show.
Bullcrap. The Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA wants to see that, I highly doubt they really spoke to or give a single damn about what those generations want.
They will kick your ass (verbally and/or physically) if you do something wrong, stupid, or amoral/illegal. They will also work hard to provide for you. And, they will die to protect and defend you, so long as you are worthy of it.
Those three things generally don’t leave much time for being “vulnerable”.