"Manly role model"

So, this was in the Trib today.

Dear Abby: My husband, "Ron," and I are at odds over parenting our 7-year-old son, "Brett." My husband is very domestic. He cooks like a world-class chef and does more housework than any man I know of. I have read Dr. James Dobson's books on family. He clearly states that a father should be the manly role model for the son, to prevent the son from being homosexual. I'm concerned that Brett will learn feminine ways from my husband and turn out to be gay.

-- Worried Mom in Florida

Dear Worried Mom: From my perspective, you don't need to change a thing. Your husband is already a manly role model to your son. He is teaching the boy important survival skills. With luck, your son will turn out to be every bit the man -- and father -- that your husband is.

Abby is dead on. But she should, perhaps, have been a bit more forthright.

Worried Mom should hope her husband doesn't decide to become a "manly role model" who never lifts a finger around the house and slaps her silly for questioning him.

Oh, yes. One more thing.

Brett is going to be damaged far more by a mother who reads James Dobson than by just about anything his father could do.