The ‘Daddy Issues’ cliché has got to be one of the most galling and ignorant stereotypes. Just because a woman had/has an abusive or an absentee father, it doesn’t mean she is predisposed to be a slut.
I read an article the other day about how guys itching to get laid should go after women with daddy issues as they are easy prey. This stereotype stipulates that women with strained relationship with their fathers will inevitably have loose sexual morals.
Are you kidding me? A woman with ‘daddy issues’ will dress provocatively, be emotionally detached, have low self-esteem and sleep with multiple men — particularly older and unavailable men, so the stereotype goes.
It claims that women don’t dictate their own destiny. It is ridiculous! So ladies, whether your father died young, or was a dead beat who abandoned you or was a workaholic who had no time for you, brace yourself for a turbulent life of promiscuity and emotional instability.
You will be clingy, needy, slutty and you will seek out older men as father-figure substitutes. You will live for male attention. You are incontrovertibly damaged goods. Having an available, caring and loving father is the only way a woman can experience romantic success and good self-esteem and have principles.
It irks me that instead of people trying to get to know these women for the people they are, they judge them based on family issues that they had no control over.
The media doesn’t help matters when they constantly bombard us with the overused theme of the over sexualized, emotionally detached, and troubled woman with daddy issues who needs a man to save her. Women don’t need a male figure to be principled and feel good about themselves. Sure, a good father figure is important and helps in shaping the future of a woman. However, nobody is destined to be anything. We make our own decisions regardless of what past family baggage we have to deal with it.
Daddy issues have no correlation to someone’s morality. If a girl doesn’t want to act slutty then she won’t act slutty. We set our own paths.
There are a lot of girls who act slutty but had great relationships with their fathers and there are girls who were neglected by their fathers and yet live their lives chastely.
Daddy has nothing to do with a woman’s decision to wear booty shoots and crop tops. Not all girls who didn’t have a father figure growing up are ‘easy’.
A girl going out with an older man doesn’t necessarily mean she is seeking a father figure because her dad was absent. People need to stop making jokes of women with “daddy issues”.
How a girl dresses or acts is not an immediate indicator that she has any daddy issues.
@roxannekenya