Your Daddy or Your Father?— Mimetic Desire versus Christian Fatherhood

Authors

Bryce Dixon

Keywords

imitation, mimetic desire, Fatherhood, idioms, Daddy

Abstract

“The Yankees are my Daddy,” the Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez famously announced following the loss of some critical baseball games to their New York City rivals. The idiom “Daddy” refers to a victor’s domination over a loser in a competition. The winner becomes the Daddy, and the loser the submissive child. Ironically, a Red Sox player, David Ortiz—nicknamed “Big Papi,” or “Big Daddy” in Spanish—became the Yankees’ “Daddy” when his batting heroics led the Red Sox to a miraculous comeback win over the Yankees in the 2004 playoffs, reversing the “curse of the Bambino” that was believed to have deprived them of a World Series victory for eighty-six years.

Recommended Citation

Dixon, Bryce (2023) "Your Daddy or Your Father?— Mimetic Desire versus Christian Fatherhood," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 62: Iss. 4, Article 7.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol62/iss4/7