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Men Can: The Changing Image and Reality of Fatherhood in America

Men Can: The Changing Image and Reality of Fatherhood in America

Unger examines shifts in language/media representations of fathers, personalizing changes in childcare, highlighting fathers who own/share parenting.

2010

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Abolish the UN: What is It Good For? (Absolutely Nothing!)

Remember the UN’s black helicopters?

Feb 26, 2022

Abolish the UN: What is It Good For? (Absolutely Nothing!)

Feb 26, 2022

The CDC Would Still “Prefer” That Narcotic Pain Medication Not Be Prescribed

I was in a restaurant in the Midwest a few years back. There was an empty section and I asked the server if I could sit there.

Feb 13, 2022

The CDC Would Still “Prefer” That Narcotic Pain Medication Not Be Prescribed

Feb 13, 2022

My Invoice: a Late Fee for Citibank

Jul 9, 2021

My Invoice: a Late Fee *for* Citibank

Jul 9, 2021

The Mortal Threat of Millennial Ignorance of the Holocaust

My daughter — a millennial, born in 1995 — was named for my grandmother, my father’s mother, who came to the US as a child, with her…

May 22, 2021

The Mortal Threat of Millennial Ignorance of the Holocaust

May 22, 2021

Agreed (and thank you).

May 4, 2021

May 4, 2021

What Really Killed George Floyd?

As I write this, a court in Minneapolis has just completed the process of seating a jury in the matter of Derek Chauvin, the first of four…

Mar 23, 2021

What Really Killed George Floyd?

Mar 23, 2021

CVS is What’s Wrong with Healthcare in the US

CEO Compensation is Obscene:

Feb 23, 2021

CVS is What’s Wrong with Healthcare in the US

Feb 23, 2021

We do not always wear our histories or identities or residency status as signs.

If "we know" that "white guys" are privileged and approach people on that basis--on the basis of appearance or demographic…

Feb 17, 2021

Feb 17, 2021

Thank you for responding.

I fully understand people reacting angrily to the fathers who change a single diaper and then wait for their lollypop and their pat on the…

Feb 17, 2021

Feb 17, 2021

Abolish Reductive Slogans & Defund Shorthand:

The Left Should Stop Giving Ammunition to the Right

Jun 10, 2020

Abolish Reductive Slogans & Defund Shorthand:

Jun 10, 2020

Donald Unger

Donald Unger

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I write what I know and what I’ve lived: humor & chronic pain; politics & parenting; business writing & cultural analysis; and . . . ranting (a lot of ranting).

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