This is one of those things that's unfortunate about this kind of double standard because antiheroes like Walter White *are bad fathers* and most people talking about the double standard aren't really in favor of also making bad moms sympathetichttps://twitter.com/missdoomcookie/status/1300519272389570561?s=20 …
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I guess it will be progress when you have a character like that and have their bitter child go "She was always a shitty mom and always will be, but I guess that's not the only important thing" The way we've heard hundreds of times for dads
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I do have very mixed feelings about the famous story of Goro Miyazaki saying what he learned from being a film director himself is that his dad was "a below average father and husband but unquestionably the greatest animation director in the world" Fair enough, I guess
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I mean it's not like there's also plenty of terrible fathers who also haven't succeeded at anything else so
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Yeah, imagine abandoning your family for your craft and then your art not even be very good. Like Bojack Horseman's dad (most likely).
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That devastating line on Mad Men about the curse of being born with "an artist's disposition but not an artist's talent"
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