The important thing to remember about Father's Day is that it's not all that big a deal. The truly big deal came last month during Mother's Day.
Mothers are special, fathers are furniture.
I realize my generation has made some really awkward attempts to change that equation. Some fathers sincerely tried to become parents, sharing the home workload and parental responsibilities. But a lot of couples started out in that direction and fell into a workaholic, time-share situation where the dad was neither here nor there. Or their portfolios. This quality time nonsense also accounts for the boom in soccer for kids ages 4 to 7.