Dads in the Mix: Born Suspect

Author
Joshua Lewis Berg
Let’s play a game.  I present a general description of a person and you tell me what the first image of that person is that pops into your head?  Ready, let’s begin . . . - A doctoral math student in a university – A person sitting in an arm chair in front of the television – An accountant – An aerobics instructor – A basketball player – A terrorist – A male hairdresser – A panhandler – A stay-at-home parent. Did each of the people you thought of have a gender, a skin color, a sexual orientation?  Certainly, not everyone would imagine the same type of person but I am willing to bet that for more than half of people, at least in America, the first image in their minds...