Macho men should dare to speak of love for their fellows — especially on Father's Day All a father wants is a teepee made of armour plating stripped from a stealth fighter. That, and meat.Inside his undetectable teepee he will watch sport on television and listen to The Eagles’ greatest hits, while his family, uniformly white and female, cook his meat with expressions of religious reverence. His wife will trail a fingertip over the kitchen counter, much in the same way she trails her fingertip over her collarbone when she’s in the shower or in the mood for getting under an L-shaped sheet. Then she will smile at her daughters (who are just putting the finishing touches on a cupcake that is a life-sized replica of Nelson Mandela) and silently give thanks that her husband had the foresight to invest in genuine Italian tiles.Later, as night falls and The Eagles give way to the haunting call of a lone fish eagle, Dad will light the fire in his teepee and reach for a bottle of his favouri...
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