When I think about American attitudes to parenting there's something that always comes to mind, but I don't know whether it's a real thing. All my life in American films and TV I've heard child characters addressing their dads as "sir" or being told off for not doing so.
Is that really a commonplace thing in American families, or is it just a shorthand way of showing that the character is a shitty dad?
calling dads sir, in the US
It's real and I've seen it first hand
I it's how I was raised
shitty-dad shorthand
it's real outside the US
Vanilla extract
There's still time to increase the sample size!
It's more outdated than anything, hence why these days it'd be a red flag
Or maybe it's a republican thing these days idk
my uncle was in the navy and he made all his kids call him sir
Option one and option three are functionally the same.


















