Father’s Day is too often written off as a Hallmark Holiday. Yes, it is a recent social construct, but when it comes down to it all of our festivals are social constructs.

This one has its roots in various feasts, festivals, commercial, and religious days around the world that have since been formalised.

Today, Father’s Day forms part of a collection of days that honour family roles. They are not compulsory. They are not public holidays. If they offend you or you’re determined to wallow in negative feelings – as is the case with The New York Times – you’re free to ignore it.

What matters to the rest of us is the spirit of a day. Saying, ‘Thanks dad!’ once a year is a healthy thing for society, especially in the current ideological environment that seeks to label men as ‘toxic’ and dangerous by their very nature.

When little boys are born, they are separated out as ‘future rapists’ or the heirs of ‘white supremacy’ and ‘colonisation’ by the same cult that makes doctors feel guilty about ‘assigning’ gender at birth. Our culture too often seeks to destroy the bonds of fatherhood at infancy and paint fathers as something to be watered down, made more palatable, and – if possible – replaced entirely by a second mother.

If the men of Western Civilisation lean into their biological instincts to be strong providers and protectors, they are charged with crimes against groupthink. If they complain about advertising campaigns that attack them for existing, they are decried as insensitive.

God forbid men present themselves as tall, slightly wild-looking, masculine, and un-manscaped creatures capable of killing a Huntsman spider or fixing stuff around the house.

Modern men, as a species, are getting weaker. They are being coaxed into effeminate behaviour as the cult of womanhood pushes itself into the public sphere – a public sphere, mind you, that can’t seem to define what a woman is. In some arenas of Woke, the best woman is a man.

Such is the Age of Confusion we find ourselves in.

Here’s a tip, women like strong men. Women look for masculine creatures to balance their femininity. Maybe the reason that so many young women are single is not, as suggested by some, the ‘culture of Tinder’ but the far more problematic lack of manly-men who make good prospective fathers.

Masculinity is something worth defending, as is the vital role of men when it comes to leading the family.

This Sunday, we simply say thank you to the fathers that are looking after the next generation.