Move Father's Day

We can't have Father's Day on the third Sunday in June anymore.

Think about it.  What with June being Pride Month and Immigrant Heritage Month, and given that Juneteenth, the celebration of the emancipation of the last slaves in the country, is now a federal holiday, and given also that June 19 is third Sunday in June this year and thus coincides with Father's Day (though that won't happen again until 2033, Father's Day will always be either close to or on Juneteenth), what this all means is that we have all of these politically correct, multicultural celebrations going on and overshadowing a holiday that celebrates . . . patriarchy.

Awk-ward!

Father's Day is only on the third Sunday in June because Sonora Smart Dodd, the woman who invented the holiday in honor of her own father (a widower in Spokane who raised six children by himself). wanted to celebrate it for the first time on June 5, 1910 - the first Sunday of the month that year, which was also her father's birthday - and asked her minister to give a sermon on fatherhood.  The minister asked that it be postponed by two weeks so he could have time to prepare the sermon, so the first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910 - when June 19 had been a black American day of celebration already for 45 years.

Again - awk-ward! 

Oh, yeah, the fact that June was named for a matriarch - Juno, the queen of the gods and the goddess of fertility in the Greco-Roman polytheistic religion - doesn't make it an appropriate month for Father's Day anyway.

Father's Day should obviously be moved.  No one really cares when a day to honor a parent is celebrated.  It can be any old day in any old month.  I propose moving Father's Day to a Sunday in August.  August has no holidays in the U.S. to speak of whatsoever - unless you count Friendship Day, the first Sunday n August, which was invented by a greeting card company and is celebrated by no one.  It would, as the only holiday in August, get more attention than it does now, and it would give stores one more summer holiday to commercialize before they start their back-to-school sales.

My own father died fifteen years ago, and I'm not a father, so I have no dog in this hunt.  That's why I feel I have a right to suggest this.

Now . . . while I'm at it, I have a problem with Thanksgiving being so close to Christmas . . .