Bill Maher Begs for the Return of the ‘Trad Dad’
Bill Maher has an idea for a Father’s Day gift that’s more than a little outdated.
The late-night talk show host mused Friday night about the need to bring back “traditional dads,” or “trad dads,” as he called them—fathers who “knows [he’s] your parent, not your friend.”
Maher’s monologue started with a familiar rant about how spoiled children are these days, leading to a critique of the concept of “gentle parenting”—or as he described it, “negotiating with terrorists.”