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While thinking about my parent-child dynamic obsession, I realized that there’s a fairly gender-specific element to those dynamics. And that is that mother child dynamics are treated much more naturally than father-child dynamics. What I mean by this, is where a story has maybe one team dad or a father-child duo, the same story is likely to have more mother-child dynamics or at the very least occur much more smoothly and naturally. To have a character or characters have a mother figure, is much more accepted and even expected than to have a character have a father figure. Often father figures aren’t even father figures to more than one character. And the character they’re a father figure to is usually a girl. Of course, this isn’t always like this, but I have a much easier time naming father-daughter duos than father-son duos. My main two examples of this double standard are Mia and Me and CW’s Supergirl, two shows that have so much in common (note the sarcasm). The first reflects more...