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Top 50 Dad Blogs of 2012
Last year, when we inaugurated our Top 50 Dad Blogs list, we praised dad bloggers for “changing the way we think about fatherhood.” Indeed, a number of our favorite bloggers on this, our second Top 50 list, insist our thinking needs to be changed. They describe themselves as advocates for fathers, taking to their keyboards in order to counter dominant cultural stereotypes of dad-as-incompetent-buffoon. (You don’t believe them? Tune in to most any family sitcom on most any night of the week.) Others on the list aspire simply to entertain us with funny, relatable tales from the trenches. A few write to work through the shattering grief of losing a child or spouse.
This list features straight dads, gay dads, working dads, stay-at-home dads, geek dads, single dads, and more. In a culture where the dominant conversations around fatherhood center simply on whether dads can deign to change their kid's diaper, it's refreshing to see these guys take the public perception of parents into their own hands. We are again struck by the variety of their voices and experiences, which itself puts the lie to the notion of any one “typical dad.” A lot of our favorites from last year are back, while many worthy entrants are making their debuts. We hope you’ll enjoy laughing, crying, nodding, and discovering along with them as much as we have. As dads' online influence grows, this list will only become more and more difficult to curate — and that's a good problem to have. If you think we missed any of your favorite dad bloggers, nominate them here. – Barbara Spindel and the dad blog panel
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Jason Priluck, GenXDaddy
GenXDaddy is Hollywood talent manager Jason Priluck, “representative to the stars by day, child’s jungle gym by night.” Priluck is husband to GWE (Greatest Wife Ever — aww!) and father to young sons Justin and Garrett.
Nothing explosive happens in this earnest and sweet-natured blog — teeth become loose and fall out, children (and dad) make poop jokes, the boys go trick-or-treating (the “sole reason to have children is so they can be our ‘Candy Minions’ for Halloween,” Priluck notes). Every now and then Priluck’s single and childless friend known only as Sherlock makes an appearance to taunt GenXDaddy with ribald tales of his sexual exploits. GenXDaddy pretends to be jealous, but he doesn’t fool us for a minute; we know he doesn’t want the life his pal has. He clearly loves his family to pieces and takes very seriously what he calls “the never-ending quest to raise my boys to become good men.”
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Mitch