This is what I sent in and they printed it. I only sent them a belated Happy Father's Day two days after Father's Day because I told them I felt it would be out of place. After their commentary of June 15th it sure was.

I don't feel women get the respect they deserve either in commercials or TV. Gosh, they portray women as helpless in movies most all the time. That is why I loved Cynthia Rothrock and her kicking butt in her movies. I know it's entertainment but it is not funny to me. This is what I have noticed happening. Could the thing about Fathers be because half of them don't provide?

FATHERS
   They do make a difference
   Your editorial (Our View, June 15), couldn’t have been better. Over the years I have seen Father’s Day lose its significance and fathers themselves take a back seat in the role of the family, other than a symbolic provider with very little prestige in the family unit. As you stated, there are sitcoms that portray fathers as incapable of good judgment and as a bumbling idiot ready to be made fun of. Society has taken fathers and their place in society to the far right and the anti-male bias is prevalent everywhere.
   Not to say that sons and daughters individually do not relish their fathers and love them. It is they know full well the sting of the ridicule fathers are getting nowadays as being almost insignificant except to father a child and even that is not completely necessary if a woman so chooses.
   As Kathleen Parker said in her book “Save the Males,” men do matter and women should care. She stated in a recent interview that the whole idea of how men are perceived now should swing back more towards the middle.