Yeah, that's true, actually. There's also "Dudley Pippin and The Principal where he learns that its okay for a boy to cry if he feels sad.

I guess I was looking at the song with the angle of 'father should accept the boy for what he is, whatever that may be.'

Which is a good message, but not the one the song was going for.

Do you think many of those lessons actually stuck, or do you think we all kinda rubber-banded right back into the more traditional way of thinking?