Australia: Are Dads Getting A Bum Rap?

Article here. Excerpt:

'Have you noticed that more and more men, especially dads, are depicted in the media complete idiots? You know, all the ads where Dad can't think of what to cook so pulls something out of the freezer to fool his dear family, or balks at nappy changing. Sacha Molitorisz, over at the pleasingly punctuated Who's Your Daddy?, has had enough.
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As one who has volunteered with "disadvantaged" boys for four years (in New York), one trend I have observed is that boys feel the treatment they receive in school and in society is that they are second class citizens when compared to the girls. They are punished for acts which girls are not punished for, they are treated as thugs, labelled as abusive and unable to learn, etc. I do think the popular culture portrayals of boys and men do inform and effect to some degree how these young men are treated by both teachers and administrators - who are primarily female - and their female peers.'