My daddy
I am a daddy’s girl all the way. I grew up with my father, my mother and two older brothers. I have always considered myself a “guy’s girl” because I was always close to those three men. We watched baseball and basketball and fights. We watched Westerns and Gangster movies. I can be girlie too, don’t get me wrong; but I was raised with brothers and for the most part my dad did not differentiate between me and them. I always tell people my dad was a feminist. For a Puerto Rican male born in the 40s this is something rare. I do not know what he said to the world. He might have cracked sexist jokes or what not – but I never saw that side of him so I do not know. I know the way he treated my mom on occasion was not the way he brought me up to be treated. Maybe that is hypocritical, I don’t know. But I prefer to view it as him wanting his kid do better and go further. I honestly do not think he was always conscien...