response: Actually there are fairy tales with evil stepfathers!  An example is "The Gold Bearded Man."
original_response: Evil step fathers are less common in literature than evil stepmothers, mine is great tho!
history: my parents are still married so i will never find out what it's like to have a stepfather Oh, you mean a father figure that's non-biological, married to a parent? Yeah that's what I'm talking about.  Oh, I've always wondered why stories have evil stepmothers, but not evil stepfathers, do you know?
knowledge: Though less common in literature than evil stepmothers, there are also cases of evil ''stepfathers'', such as in the fairy tales ''The Gold-Bearded Man'' (in a plot usually featuring a cruel father) and ''The Little Bull-Calf''.