What it Means to be a ‘Girl Dad’

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said it best when she told Fox News following Kobe Bryant’s death, “it’s rare, when you see a male athlete who passes away, where a lot of the conversation is about their commitment to women and girls.”

Mid-tribute, ESPN’s Elle Duncan touched a lot of hearts when she made the astute observation that he died doing what he loved doing the most: “Being a dad. Being a girl dad.” Bryant later said, “I would have five more girls if I could.”

Engelbert is right. This sentiment is not exactly expressed everyday. Sons have had their time. It’s time for daughters to feel seen and be heard.

Lifting the spirits of girl dads everywhere, a heart-warming story has surfaced about a girl dad who thawed a lot of ice cold hearts out following the death of the world’s most well known girl dad, Kobe Bryant.

Reporting for CNN, London freelance journalist Lianne Korilin shines a light on Tom Rosenthal, a musician with tens of thousands of followers on both Twitter and Instagram. However, his name has made headlines not due to his own musical prowess, but that of his toddler daughter, Fenn.

Tom, who made sure to big up his daughter in a Tweet – “nearly 4” – announced that Fenn had written a song called “Dinosaurs in Love” that at press time has been streamed a cool 500,000 times.

A father of two girls, Tom Rosenthal is a girl dad Kobe would look at and say, “Hey man. Good on you.”

Men, raise queens. Kingdoms collapse everyday.