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This Sunday is Father's Day, a day of handmade cards, ties with golf clubs on them, and the gift of truly horrible cologne. It's also a day that's often used to make fun of the practically non-existent "hapless dad" who doesn't know how to put his daughter's hair in a ponytail and has somehow made it to adulthood without knowing how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But internet celebrity Kristina Kuzmic has written a Facebook post that says she's had enough of this outdated stereotype.

Kuzmic, a comedian known for her straight-forward and hilarious takes on parenting, wrote a post on her Facebook page yesterday explaining why she refuses to make videos that "mock dads."

https://admin.cafemom.com/being_a_mom/mom-nails-why-we-need-to-stop-laughing-at-incompetent-dad-jokes/212661/edit In her post, Kuzmic says that even though "making dads look like incompetent, childish idiots is pretty popular on the internet," it's not something she will ever do despite the fact that her whole business is making content that will be popular on the internet. Kuzmic has three excellent reasons for this decision, which she lists out in her post:

First, she says, she won't make fun of dads "for the same reason I wouldn’t mock moms. I’m rooting for all parents." It's that simple and that powerful. Parenting is the toughest job on the planet, so why on earth is it ok to routinely put down half of us? Now, it's important to note that these jokes didn't become popular without context -- for centuries women have been told that they must be mothers, that they can or should do nothing else but be mothers, but that mothering is also a worthless job. So once times changed and fathers became more involved in parenting, there was, perhaps, the need for a little bit of vengeance. But it's 2018, and it's time to ask ourselves what our goal is -- is it to punish men or is to have capable, appreciated, equal partners in parenting?

Which brings us to Kuzmic's second reason for not mocking dads: feeling like a failure won't make anyone a better parent. "Mocking people," she writes, "[won't] make them step-up and do a better job. It will only cause them to do even less. (As I’ve said before: Feeling like a loser has never helped anyone thrive in life.)" Does it motivate you to be told you're an idiot who doesn't know what they're doing? Not me.

Finally, Kuzmic reminds us that even in the jokes we make and the sarcastic comments we throw around with our friends, we are always acting as models for our kids. When it comes to making fun of fathers, Kuzmic thinks about her own sons: "I have sons who might someday decide to be dads, and I refuse to create any content that would make my boys think that men are less capable than women of being great parents or homemakers."

In comedy, the easiest joke is rarely the best joke. In fact, it's usually not a very good joke at all. Dad jokes are easy, they're not funny, and they are past their time. In fact, all of these eye-rollingly bad dad jokes should make us angry because they imply that mothers are the more "natural" parent and are therefore the ones who should be taking care of all child-related tasks. sorry, but isn't that exactly what we've been trying to get away from?

In her short post, Kuzmic reminds us that If we have a father to celebrate this Sunday, we should do it sincerely. After all, dads are in the same parenting shitstorm moms are, and they need the same support to get through it.

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