Paternally grateful
Nikki Gemmell, The Weekend Australian Magazine
IS there a word for it? I can’t think of one. The label “maternal” is fenced off by women, exclusively, proudly; “paternal” – well, feminism has stained its meaning, it’s veered into something hegemonic, domineering, controlling, hardened, a word a lot of females flinch from by instinct. But how to describe what I see all […]