In response to many of the posters:

It's true that the media is bloated with images of dads as bumbling dolts. Who's to blame for that? It's not women who run the media and the entertainment complex.

It makes no more sense to say women are to blame for those images than to say that men are to blame for anorexic models. (Studies have shown that generally men like women more fleshy than that.) It's corporate suits in both cases trying to appeal to what they think is the "lowest common denominator" in order to maximize the bucks.

(See the irony? Most of those corporate dunderheads selling us those images of Dad as man-child are men.)

It's a money thing. It's not a gender thing.