How many of you feminists who don't hate men feel that your father had something to do with it : )?

My father, though he made mistakes, like any parent, was incredibly important to my developing "humanism". He never expected less of us because we were female, he never thought that there was anything that we couldn't do because we were female...actually, my dad always taught us to take each person at face value, male or female (or intersex, I'd bet, if he'd known of such a thing at the time). I love men because all of the important men in my life...my dad, my grandfather, my uncle, my husband...all of them take people as PEOPLE first, not as "male people" or "female people" first. It seems to have made a huge difference in my life, and has certainly been important in my ability to be friendly and loving toward people, regardless of their sex.

So a week before Father's Day, I just wanted thank my Dad, for being the kind of man that I could respect, and for teaching me that many of the divisions between men and women are arbitrary, and not foregone. I'll tell him all of this, too (I have), of course. I was just feelin' the man-love right at this moment, though, so I thought that this would be an appropriate place to say it : ).