Feeling disturbed by what passes as a father "spending time" with his kid is the father ranting endlessly.

I saw a tweet last night that being a father spending time with their kid is exhausting their kid of energy by ranting and "mansplaining" a topic that the kid asked the parent about. The kid asking the father a "why" question.

I remember my father used to rant for hours endlessly in unproductive rants about topics thinking he was being a father and this was his duty. That reads to me more like a type of emotional abuse or harassment-lite mode because he often didn't allow me to walk away either.

It wasn't a civil conversation, it was not a discussion, it was my dad ranting about topics he was not an expert on. It's no different than someone asking me a question, me opening up wikipedia and reading off the page. Besides a lot of men are not experts in the things that they rant about. They just pick a topic and talk endlessly acting as if they were scholars on the topic.

I don't think that should be encouraged with men to think that when asked a question, they need to mansplain relentlessly to exhaust someone of energy in their initial question? That's not civilized. I don't have kids or want them but I don't see how that's a productive use of parenting time to just rant at the clouds about nonsense. It'd be like me going to work and just mashing the keyboard and still expecting payment for showing up.

Plus I don't know how that's an acceptable thing to enable an adult to do to another human being is ranting to them to exhaustion. Men do that to women even in the dating scene. They remain persistent even if told no.