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Out of curiosity, I did a search for "father" here and got about 1,030 results.
I did a search for "father figure" and got 3 results, one of which was a comment of yours.
I did a search for "father figures" and got 4 results, all of which were about fictional Heinlein characters.
That seems to suggest that people around here say "father" quite a bit more often than they say "father figure."
So, can you summarize your basis for this claim?
I mean, I don't accept the assertion that using the phrase "father figure" endorses the position that biological fathers are unnecessary, nor that such a position is transparently false or outrageously improbable. It might be false, but it's not obviously false; plenty of families don't have fathers and yet don't spontaneously implode. My own father died twenty years ago, for example, but I didn't stop being part of a family.
But if we can't even agree on what language people around here actually are using, it seems pointless to try and agree on what the implications of certain language use would be, were they using it.
You put the phrase "say "father figure" in the context of discussing family structure" in quotes, but I don't see where that phrase appeared in the comment I replied to. Is that the phrase I supposedly deleted, or was it some other phrase? If it was, where did I supposedly delete it from? If it was some other phrase, what phrase was it?
Edit: Ah! I see... it appears later in the comment, nowhere near the line I quoted. I get it now.
In any case, if your point is that we use the phrase "father figure" and not "father" in the context of discussing family structure, can you point me at how you arrived at that conclusion? You might be right, but you appear to be pulling the claim out of thin air.
"Father figure" seems to me to permit either position, "father" not so much. It's always troublesome when someone declares that you can only be properly impartial by agreeing with them.