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In reply to the discussion: Is grown women calling their fathers "Daddy" a sign of unconscious submission to patriarchy? [View all]ms liberty
(11,247 posts)I called my father daddy right up until the monitors quit showing signs of life, and I still call him daddy when I discuss him with family. Publicly, to aquaintances or casual friends, he is usually my father or my dad. He was and is daddy to me despite the fact that my mother (who was and is always momma) and he divorced when I was a preteen. He was not a part of my daily life after that but was an intermittent presence only. Our relationship went through good times and bad, but he never tried to be the patriarch more than once, when my answer was that he lost the right to tell me what I could or could not do; I was in the 7th grade at the time. My mother was antiauthoritarian (as was my father), and my mother was also a feminist who would not describe herself as one - she thought of herself as equal or better than any man, and didn't think it needed a label. She raised my sister and I to be skeptical and wary of everyone, regardless of their sex.
My father was daddy because to me and my sister that was his name; a sign of affection and love, not patriarchy.
While you might be correct in some certain instances, you are generalizing way too broadly.