My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture which serve as categories of denial. Science is such a category. The torture and death that Heinrich Himmler found disturbing to witness became acceptable to him when it fell under this rubric. He liked to watch the scientific experiments in the concentration camps . Susan Griffin
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The phrase “my father learned his disinterest from his father” is a funny way of saying that the lack of interest in a certain area was passed down from generation to generation. This shows that something is wrong with the way we raise boys and girls. In the past, most fathers were not so involved in their children. They preferred to let the mother care for the children instead.

That means that fathers were not so involved in their children’s lives. Today, most children grow up with both parents in their daily lives, so this phrase is used to explain why the parent had no interest in certain things or activities.

Source: A Chorus Of Stones: The Private Life Of War

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