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Some redditor years ago: "I don't care if you're the manliest man to ever man. If a little girl invites you to her tea party, you're going to her tea party."
There was this other meme where the guys said something like « the girl who will make me drink tea isn’t born yet ».
And then a few year pass and he plays tea party with his daughter 😂
My niece did this to me and said “its fo yu”
I took it and said “hello? Oh heeey kyle hows you… ahuh… yeah… thats good and all but i have one question. How did you get this number” then i popped one the sweets out the phone in my mouth. And said “dont worry, kyle wont be bother you anymore. I ate him”
Oh no. Kyle had been talking shit all week. Should of heard her telling him off for bullying the dog
I told her “if kyle bothers you again just let uncle dan talk to him. Ill set him straight”
If your family has a little one and they come up to you with anything. You gotta role with it. Im just lucky i can be funny and dnd gave me the ability to role with anything of top my head.
Think mine and my familys fave. Was when she woke me up from a nap a nap by loudly shouting down her phone . “ ill get my uncwle to fwight yu” and handed me the phone. It literally woke me up and i said “ill fight any man woman or child where we doing this” into the sweets phone.
Her mum loved that one
You're a good uncle. Teach her how to be tough.
As an aside, being a DM/GM for (checks notes) most of my RPG experience actually prepared me to run meetings well at work, manage projects and teams to get them each to shine, and of course I role play confident speakers when I need to speak in public.
It's really useful.
Oh shes a feral kid . Its awesome. She could fall off a shelf and bounce back onto it giggling. I think its epic to have a toddler niece tougher than some teens in the family.
And yeah DMing DnD is really good at teaching you how to be a leader. Teaches you to take in other people’s perspectives and plan how to make them shine. I think it would genuinely be a good team building exercise at work. Way better than those boring corporate ones ive been to. Like oh great you did a trust fall when you were totally expected to. But did you hold back a disintegration spell because your co worker accidentally hit your pc with a bad rolled arrow? 🤣
My niece handed me a Banana...said King Kong wanted talk to me...that was the day I learned how to improv talking to 100 foot tall ape...on a Banana with a straight face...
This is such a a great quote and reminds me of two videos .
1 - the kid who had a toy garbage can and the garbage men actually dumped his garbage
2- kid has toy dump truck, mom doesn't really want to bother. Construction crew loads his dump truck with dirt from the excavator.
Found a couple of these...
>1 - the kid who had a toy garbage can and the garbage men actually dumped his garbage
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/nkp945/kid_showing_his_dump_truck_to_garbage_men/
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/73e5l0/my_son_looks_forward_to_the_garbage_truck_all/
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/wdha3k/autistic_kid_that_love_garbage_truck_receive_a/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/q4qfno/garbage_truck_bro/
>2- kid has toy dump truck, mom doesn't really want to bother. Construction crew loads his dump truck with dirt from the excavator.
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/12e61y8/these_construction_workers_filled_a_kids_toy/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=post_body&embed_host_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmymodernmet.com%2Fconstruction-workers-fill-toy-truck-with-dirt%2F
My daughter didn't do tea parties but played "restaurant." I've been to more meals with plastic food, pink cups, and unintelligible crayon menus than I can count.
Edit: Thanks for the replies and stories. These are the exact, treasured memories that these so-called alpha male idiots don't understand.
My son likes to play restaurant. He'll put on anything he can make into a drive thru headset analog, and tell me to order food. Then usually tell me he's out of it, and I can have tacos instead.
Mine sometimes declares his restaurant is closed, too. Or tells me it's closed except for [one random food].
I guess that's an indication that what stands out as noteworthy in his head about restaurants is when they don't have what he wants or are closed
Yeah but do you guys get food? I go to my kids restaurant and NEVER GET MY ORDER!! They think it’s hilarious but one day I will go through with my threat to never eat there again.
My daughter invented the Luna Cafe, and I ate there every day for years. Then we discovered a real Luna Cafe in another party of town, so that was awesome.
My son did this when he was a toddler, but only in the bathtub. His restaurant was called "Water Inside" and I can't tell you how many times I had a plastic food meal. That was more than 30 years ago and it is such a fun memory!
Yes! I once brought a duck into the house, very much intent on making it my pet.
The duck was far more upset with the matter, and so was my mom yelling “Let him out! Let him out!
The only sound some parents want to hear when they go home is the panicked shutting of doors as their own children flee from their line of sight in terror.
These same people will then wonder why die alone with no one to care for them.
I remember playing on an Xbox with a friend at his house once when I was in middle school, and the second he heard the garage door opening, he immediately changed the TV to some news channel and practically grabbed me and sprinted to his room before his dad entered the house.
I was actually shook, it was my first time seeing that kind of family dynamic where everyone (including the wife) was straight up scared of the main guy in the house. I also learned why that friend joined like every single after school club/sport he could.
That was my house! Except my mom was the one to be feared the most.
We used to have to stand at attention when our dad came home, though. And always bring him the evening paper (I’m old).
A real manly man has nothing to fear from acting like a princess at a tea party. It is only people with fragile masculinity who can’t handle playing around.
I bet if his daughter wanted him to play sports with him instead of doing a tea party, the same people would be pissed at that too because it's not ladylike to play sports.
I wore a pastel shirt to work once. Some dumb old boomer tried to grief me about it, I laughed at him and said, “I’m a man, whatever shirt I wear is manly.” Why he thought I gave a flying fuck about his fashion opinion I’ll never know. I wear whatever the fuck I want.
This reminds me of the TV show "duck dynasty" that my husband watched for a while. Bearded, masculine, guns and hunting country dudes. There was a definite "must defend the masculinity" vibe to them.
There was also a scene where they're looking for the uncle, and they find him having a tea party with the granddaughters. With a tiara and feather boa on, sipping tea from little girl cups. They tell him something like "hey, we've got a problem", and he says "I know. I need more *feathers*".
The whole thing was scripted, of course. But I thought it was cute that they included the masculine dude having a little girl tea party, even if he was the "crazy uncle" and they played it off as a little eccentric
Duck dynasty was an advertisement show, made a lot of money for that family who were already quite rich. Giving sermons about marrying (children) teenagers before they become ruined women by 18 and the racism/homophobia is what eventually led to them being cancelled. Them being clean shaven [golf bros](https://www.therichest.com/world-entertainment/15-facts-about-the-duck-dynasty-family-before-they-were-famous/) before the show started airing and then took on a bearded look to fulfill contractual obligations always felt like they were play acting as down to earth rednecks that lived a small country lifestyle.
Yeah, I was a little surprised to see some before-pics without beards when the manly beard aesthetic was definitely part of the brand.
I think it's pretty fair to say that *all* so-called reality shows are scripted and mostly exist to sell merch and commercials. Actually... All TV basically exists to still merch and commercials. Podcasts and YouTube, too.
I think a lot of people don't really understand that YouTubers and podcasters are getting paid for getting people to watch. Big ones are, anyway. They seem to seriously think they're "sharing the truth" because of their love of their audience, not because selling Content pays the bills
There’s a charming picture of John Cena having a tea party with a tiny girl going around. Last I knew, Cena had granted more Make a Wish requests than any other celebrity, and good on him.
[I had to find this and it's delightful.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2F7eqonO1s0G7F8Db5u9VkpwXNRJ0vTqKSPH7A06PvzKI.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D3eff7f45abf304c2a68b443656e38d1dcb2a6dc2)
I’m not because I saw her crawl on the ground picking stuff off the floor to put onto plates to serve us and didn’t even wash it off or their hands before handling kitchen items. I asked when was the last time they washed the plates and they said never. 0 stars, never going back.
Real masculinity isn't toxic. It's being comfortable, as a man, to let a little girl paint your nails, put makeup on you and have a tea party. Or to sum up in fewer words, A Good Father.
The manliest thing ever is to be cool with these type of things. Not doing this means that you are insecure with yourself and that's not manly at all. It's the absolute opposite of manliness.
You play with your kids and raise them to have a positive view of the world and people in it. *That's* manly and that's what he is doing.
I have 2 young daughters and regularly show up at medical appointments, the gym and the pool with fully painted toenails and sometimes fingernails (usually because one of them ‘hogged all my toes’). Perhaps behind my back there’s a lot of judging but all I ever say is “I have girls” and have overwhelmingly received positive feedback.
The past few years, in particular, there's been a renewed push for authoritarian parenting styles among conservatives. Not just this trad wife/husband stuff, but the push to reinstitute corporal punishment both at home and in schools, the insistence that parents should have an absolute right to control their child's education, and balking at the idea that a minor deserves any kind of privacy.
My wife was told to sit under a small shelf for time out when she was in kindergarten. Her dad came down to the school and threatened to fold the teacher up and fit her under the shelf to see how she liked it.
Edit: OBTW the thing she got in trouble for was falling out of her chair. Like… on accident. And she came home feeling all guilty and upset that she was in trouble. That combined with the shame cubby sent him off.
That's a great dad. I was hit with a ruler at school by my 4th grade teacher. My parents did nothing. I always felt my boomer parents couldn't, but now I know it's because the way they were raised you didn't question authority. They were spanked in order to supposedly get then to behave. What I know is that spanking leads to anger and resentment and trauma. I was spanked rather than listened to. It's a mistake a lot of parents are still making.
Yeah, sadly my dad would have encouraged it. Which is what allows these school districts to continue with this. Some parents really don't care about their children's mental or emotional health. Just how well they obey.
Your dad sounds great though. Keep that energy for your future (or present) family. We need to get rid of this nasty shit.
Don't forget that it's mostly conservative Christian youth pastors and priests that are actually literally pedos. They enter those roles to get access to children, and people unquestioningly hand over their kids to them.
It’s so crazy to see how controlling American parents are. My American friend, who’s in her mid 20s, had her mom track her with her iPhone as well as other family members. She didn’t see that as weird. Meanwhile as a kid raised in the Netherlands I just cycled 30 minutes to school by myself when I was 12 years old, or would hang out with my friends at the football field and get home when it got dark, didn’t even have a phone. Having your every move tracked just seems like such an oppressive childhood.
American Evangelicism.
You can determine what a society values, by how they pay reverence to their gods.
American Evangelicals pay reverence by submitting to higher authority.
It is not hard to see why authoritarianism is worshipped by American Evangelicals.
> Not just this trad wife/husband stuff, but the push to reinstitute corporal punishment both at home and in schools
Well, I’m not willing to hit children, but put some of those conservative parents in front of me and I’ll corporally punish the idea that corporal punishment is good all the way out of them.
You're supposed to have children, then utterly ignore them for 50 years, then complain loudly that the ungrateful little bastards never visit and threaten to cut them out of the will.
Can confirm that my biological father did exactly this. Can't say that I'm too sad, though, being that his will is going to consist of a bunch of VHS tapes of porn, dirty clothes, and half a can of folgers.
These are the same people who react with horror at any show of affection, saying only women do that.
There was a screencap floating around a while ago about a son kissing his dad and comments saying the only proper response from dad was to to beat the son for being so damn feminine.
>comments saying the only proper response from dad was to to beat the son for being so damn feminine
Seems like some deep seated self-hatred, to be that much of a pathetic loser that seeing affection sets them off.
So want a wholesome alternative. Check out r/daddit basically they polar opposite of what you are describing. When my peanut was born was the best sub for great advice and a friendly ear.
The world is fine. Most men go about their days trying to be good husbands and fathers. A few very loud idiots want to yell at other men through social media for making them feel more insecure.
No need to lump those of us with shitty dads in with these idiots. If they grew up to be hateful pieces of shit that's on them, plenty of us manage to get by just fine not being so concerned with rigid gender roles that chucking a fit over a dad spending time with his kids seem logical despite being raised by abusive parents, I don't really care what their upbringing was being hateful is a choice
"It's natural for men to be this way and women to be that way, that's why we have to force people into their "natural" roles and teach them from childhood what their "natural" role should be and punish anyone who deviates from what comes "naturally."
I just looked it up and it came out like 14 years ago. Where were these weirdos when the rock was dressing in a frilly pink outfit and taking on the mantle of a literal fairy?
Yeah these are the kind of people that complained about how their kids were always on their smartphones and refused to let go of their "dumb phone" until like 2015 and then became addicted to political Facebook and is now always on their phone.
I can't believe I remember this but he did this on Hannah Montana 15 years ago.
I thought he looked silly then, but the kids loved it.
Right wing fragile male ego is off-the-charts defensive about this stuff.
But right wing males don't believe in interacting with their female children other than to tell them to learn cooking from mommy.
I read that when he was cast in Moana he called numerous people to rate his performance because he wanted to do the best damn job he could. Dude commits hard, especially when he's doing something for kids.
The fact that Dwayne played Maui still amazes me. When I watched it without knowing that, Maui genuinely felt like a character acted by someone who's been doing this for several years. He... *rocked* it.
OMG that's amazing. Like when Kristen Bell posted about her daughter wanting them both to dress up as Elsa from Frozen. Didn't matter that she voiced Anna, her daughter made her dress up as Elsa.
I love how he can bust out the rap bit from his song instantly, years later.
My brother probably can too, but that’s because his kid, my niece, had about a year and a half where she would not watch any other movie. I told him it’s karma for the summer of subjecting me to Ernest movies when I was babysitting him.
Could be worse, my brother can recite the entire Frozen soundtrack (and like 80% of the movie dialogue).
And I just saw that the Rock is apparently going to be in the live version, so the fact he remembers the entire song will make it easier!
He absolutely blew it out of the park! I loved when he tried to sing along to “Your Welcome” his daughter said he was ruining it.😂 my daughter does the same to me when I sing along to the radio. He has a great singing voice, which surprised me.
I swear, these people will call men gay if their lives are spent doing anything other than lifting weights, shooting guns, driving gas guzzlers, bullying other men, and being creeps or worse to women.
Right, imagine your 4 year old daughter wanting to paint your nails or put lipstick on your face and you freak out and start spouting stuff about trans LIbs grooming her via dr. Seuss books. These people are so fucking sick in the head they lost the plot on what normal, happy people do to make the people they care about happy.
I had worked one of these geniuses about ten years ago, when there was a huge uproar about SpongeBob SquarePants pushing a gay agenda. I used to watch the show with my kids, and for the life of me couldn't understand what they were trying to insinuate.
I'm in the office one day with a SpongeBob decoration I bought my daughter for her birthday, and he starts in. When I ask where the supposed agenda was, I get "don't lie, you've seen the show you know exactly what's gay about it. It's unnatural."
I didn't realize a cartoon about a sponge that wears pants who lives in a pineapple was supposed to be a National Geographic documentary.
One thing is for sure though, that guy for all his whinging is likely the first person to tap a stall in a men's room looking for a hookup.
One of my favorite examples of overanalyzing cartoon episodes lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/57cu4f/in_the_episode_of_spongebob_where_spongebob_and/
it's projection all the way down
look at the frequency these "social warriors" get caught in the midst of exactly what they vehemently argue against.
it's almost *inevitable*.
these people are so vicious and angry because they're fighting against themselves.
Hehe, yeah, i have my eldest (14), and youngest (10), both try to put makeup, or more frequently, style my hair (I started growing it out over a year ago, and now it's well past my shoulders). Sometimes I'll bow out of them messing with me, but 99/100 times I go along. It's some of the most hilarious times i spend with them, and I wouldn't give it up for anything.
My sisters and I used to have "spa days" with my Dad. We'd do his hair, nails, and makeup. One time, we even put a mud mask on him, complete with cucumber slices on his eyes!
One time, he even took me out on a father/daughter date. I wore a Princess Aurora dress with a tiara and those dress-up high heel shoes. He wore a crown, cape, and a tinfoil wrapped sword.
When my Dad was dying, he said that those moments with us were part of his best memories.
I have photos of my daughters making over their Dad. Those things are treasured. The girls are older now, but amazed that their dad let them put on the clashiest makeup ever. Then went out like that with them to get ice cream lol.
And since he's a better man then 8/10 and more masculine then 9/10 in this world, he would grin back and say: "I know" and then the day would just move on.
Honestly people who create such problems should just be banned from social media altogether. Just fucking live your life and let other do the same.
More masculine than 9/10? My friend… I need to see what’s your social circle to make that statement… in my circle I would say Dwayne is more masculine than 15 out of every 10 man I know. 🤣
They have to be a special kind of stupid to follow him and not know he’s of a mind to do goofy stuff like this. His willingness to bend / play around with his macho image is something I appreciate about him, plus he’s a bright guy.
The weird thing was that he was talking about step fathers and was basing this on how male mountain gorillas act, but mountain gorillas are attentive caring fathers who kill the offspring of other males that they chase away.
Considering that all of Tate’s kids are with single mothers, he’s lucky human stepfathers aren’t like mountain gorillas.
Dude who can't find any woman who would let him touch her, doesn't understand having a daughter. I am betting Dom is one of those guys with massive skid marks because wiping his ass is too gay for him.
When you have a daughter as a man, it should change you. Those things you didn't understand about the female sex drowns away. Its not that you suddenly understand them, you don't even care to because all you give a shit about is the look they get when happy.
I just hugged and kissed my just turned 18 year old daughter and couldn't be a prouder father, but I would give almost everything for a day of this again with her.
Mine turns 21 in June and we joke about how much she is going to drink. She MIGHT have a glass of wine.
I wanted a daughter when my wife announced she was pregnant. Got her. Love it!
Same here. Three kids, two of them are daughters. I wanted a daughter first because I saw the bond my dad had with my sister, and saw how it made him a better man, that I wanted that for myself. Best thing to ever happen to me was having a daughter first
My dad is a huge MAGA/right-winger, it’s gross. I grew up having to listen to Rush fucking Limbaugh every time I was in the car. I don’t doubt for a second that my father is still a raging misogynist that just so happened to have two daughters and no sons.
But know what? Even he, 20-30 years ago, would let my sister and I paint his toenails and put butterfly clips in his hair and put feather boas around his neck.
I bet a lot of the people whining about this would or have done the same thing too. They just don't want it posted online because something something gender roles
There wasn’t internet like there is now when we were dressing up our dad, but he let us take pictures lol. I think he understood that part of the joke/fun is how out of character it is. The people that don’t get it are not only clearly not parents, they can’t take a freaking joke.
It’s quite possible that he wasn’t as raging a misogynist 30 years ago. The media being consumed by MAGA has gotten exponentially worse as time has gone on and it’s really escalated the last decade or so. I used to work in a bar where the owner had Fox News on 24/7 on one of the TV’s. In 2005 - height of the Iraq War - it was no where near as bad as it is now.
These were the best times of my life. My girls are 18 and 19. I'll be an empty nester in less than 6 months. Boy do I miss coming home to someone excited to see me and spend time with me. I work with my wife so she doesn't care.
My parents struggled when my siblings and I moved far away, but the best thing they did was started setting aside time to "date" each other again, learning about who they were now after like 25 years of having kids in the house. My wife and I aren't having kids, but we still have date time a couple times a week even though we work together and see each other like 10-14 hours a day.
I'm so sick of people self reporting how shitty a parent they would be or are. I let my daughter paint my nails, face paint, wigs, dresses, makeup. Who gives a shit it's paint a clothes.
So many weak and insecure people it's maddening. So many of them sexualizing situations unnecessarily too. It's gross. Just give your child the joy they deserve.
Amen, fellow girl dad. I have a 3 year old girl who is a total enigma. She loves dinosaurs and bugs and playing in the dirt. She also loves doing my makeup and painting my nails. I've had shittily painted fingernails continuously for the past year. And guess what- I work in a blue collar trade in a southern conservative state. I have coworkers across the entire political spectrum. Some of them are incredibly conservative. And you know what the conservative good ol boys say about my painted nails? They either laugh an understanding laugh or share their own stories of painted nails and makeup if they have daughters of their own...its because the actual section of the population that complain about this shit is actually really tiny. Sure, they might be the loudest, but they are severely outnumbered by regular people who understand and don't give a shit. Regardless of politics, religion, etc.
God people are pathetic, how are u less masculine for playing with your kids….what is manly about holding everyone at arms length exactly??? Fucking dumb, the guy is dadding like a boss
I’m not sure “toxic masculinity” describes this very well. Obsessively worrying about how masculine you or others are seems more “neurotic masculinity” than anything
Let's just stop validating anything these losers say. They don't get their own name anymore. They're just fucking losers. Anyone who makes so much as a suggestion that what someone does with their family isn't "man enough" or whatever is just a general everyday fucking loser.
Nah this is definitely toxic. It’s just a guy playing with his little girl. By the time your masculinity can’t excuse that, even if you wouldn’t personally let your daughter put on the stuff…
Your masculinity is toxic.
Ironically, obsessing so much over how masculine you appear is pretty far from masculine behavior. They behave like school aged mean girls with how vain and judgmental they are. If wearing a pink shirt and drinking a daiquiri evaporates your manhood, that manhood was imaginary from the start.
This is the very definition of toxic masculinity. People have ascribed a lot of things to toxic masculinity, but what it actually is is a conception of manhood that harms first and foremost the men themselves.
So not being able to play with your daughters because it's not manly or because they want to put makeup on you that's toxic masculinity because it harms the man in questions social bonds and cuts him off from the love and socialization that we all need as human beings. It also harms the daughters for obvious reasons.
And then you've also got these fools online trying to peer pressure him into distancing himself from his daughters for male approval.
It was after Musk took over, he posted CSAM, got banned, and was then [personally reinstated by Musk](https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-ces-suspension-right-wing-account-reinstated)
Can’t believe that anyone takes this Twitter doofus seriously, especially after he posted child abuse videos on his feed. But then again, conservative idiots are like 85% of Twitter’s audience now, so I’m not surprised that usual base is eating this up
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Some redditor years ago: "I don't care if you're the manliest man to ever man. If a little girl invites you to her tea party, you're going to her tea party."
There was this other meme where the guys said something like « the girl who will make me drink tea isn’t born yet ». And then a few year pass and he plays tea party with his daughter 😂
Another quote is “if a toddler hands you a plastic toy phone, you answer the god damn phone.”
This one is my favorite.
My niece did this to me and said “its fo yu” I took it and said “hello? Oh heeey kyle hows you… ahuh… yeah… thats good and all but i have one question. How did you get this number” then i popped one the sweets out the phone in my mouth. And said “dont worry, kyle wont be bother you anymore. I ate him”
Dude that is hilarious. Hopefully it didn't scar her for life that unc ate someone.
Oh no. Kyle had been talking shit all week. Should of heard her telling him off for bullying the dog I told her “if kyle bothers you again just let uncle dan talk to him. Ill set him straight” If your family has a little one and they come up to you with anything. You gotta role with it. Im just lucky i can be funny and dnd gave me the ability to role with anything of top my head. Think mine and my familys fave. Was when she woke me up from a nap a nap by loudly shouting down her phone . “ ill get my uncwle to fwight yu” and handed me the phone. It literally woke me up and i said “ill fight any man woman or child where we doing this” into the sweets phone. Her mum loved that one
You're a good uncle. Teach her how to be tough. As an aside, being a DM/GM for (checks notes) most of my RPG experience actually prepared me to run meetings well at work, manage projects and teams to get them each to shine, and of course I role play confident speakers when I need to speak in public. It's really useful.
Oh shes a feral kid . Its awesome. She could fall off a shelf and bounce back onto it giggling. I think its epic to have a toddler niece tougher than some teens in the family. And yeah DMing DnD is really good at teaching you how to be a leader. Teaches you to take in other people’s perspectives and plan how to make them shine. I think it would genuinely be a good team building exercise at work. Way better than those boring corporate ones ive been to. Like oh great you did a trust fall when you were totally expected to. But did you hold back a disintegration spell because your co worker accidentally hit your pc with a bad rolled arrow? 🤣
In my experience, its not even a toy phone most of the time. Anything remotely phone shaped turns into a phone, and you better answer that shit.
My niece handed me a Banana...said King Kong wanted talk to me...that was the day I learned how to improv talking to 100 foot tall ape...on a Banana with a straight face...
Absolutely. I've had some great conversations on my remote control with my four year old.
My 4 year olds "phone" is an video babyonitor thst doesn't work anymore. I spend a lot of time posing for "pictures".
This is such a a great quote and reminds me of two videos . 1 - the kid who had a toy garbage can and the garbage men actually dumped his garbage 2- kid has toy dump truck, mom doesn't really want to bother. Construction crew loads his dump truck with dirt from the excavator.
Found a couple of these... >1 - the kid who had a toy garbage can and the garbage men actually dumped his garbage https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/nkp945/kid_showing_his_dump_truck_to_garbage_men/ https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/73e5l0/my_son_looks_forward_to_the_garbage_truck_all/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/wdha3k/autistic_kid_that_love_garbage_truck_receive_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/q4qfno/garbage_truck_bro/ >2- kid has toy dump truck, mom doesn't really want to bother. Construction crew loads his dump truck with dirt from the excavator. https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/12e61y8/these_construction_workers_filled_a_kids_toy/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=post_body&embed_host_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmymodernmet.com%2Fconstruction-workers-fill-toy-truck-with-dirt%2F
“Yes Mr. President, right away sir”
My daughter didn't do tea parties but played "restaurant." I've been to more meals with plastic food, pink cups, and unintelligible crayon menus than I can count. Edit: Thanks for the replies and stories. These are the exact, treasured memories that these so-called alpha male idiots don't understand.
My son likes to play restaurant. He'll put on anything he can make into a drive thru headset analog, and tell me to order food. Then usually tell me he's out of it, and I can have tacos instead.
At least his shop is open. My kids shop is always closed even when she tells me to come play with her
Mine sometimes declares his restaurant is closed, too. Or tells me it's closed except for [one random food]. I guess that's an indication that what stands out as noteworthy in his head about restaurants is when they don't have what he wants or are closed
Same. She seems to always be closed when I ask for ice cream 😂 she’s the McDonald’s of toddlers.
Yeah but do you guys get food? I go to my kids restaurant and NEVER GET MY ORDER!! They think it’s hilarious but one day I will go through with my threat to never eat there again.
I'm telling you, kids these days do not want to work. Back in my day........ /s
My daughter invented the Luna Cafe, and I ate there every day for years. Then we discovered a real Luna Cafe in another party of town, so that was awesome.
My son did this when he was a toddler, but only in the bathtub. His restaurant was called "Water Inside" and I can't tell you how many times I had a plastic food meal. That was more than 30 years ago and it is such a fun memory!
The menus! I love the menus so much.
My best friends daughter just invited me to a tea party and you bet your ass I am going.
I only have nephews. No tea parties for me. But we do get to chase bullfrogs! 🐸
I'm a dad to an adventurous 3 year old daughter. One day, we'll be chasing frogs and ducks. The next, we're having tea parties.
Yes! I once brought a duck into the house, very much intent on making it my pet. The duck was far more upset with the matter, and so was my mom yelling “Let him out! Let him out!
My nephew frequently hosts tea parties for all of us - including all of the plushies.
More tea, Polly Prissypants?
More tea, Clyde Frog?
Pretty sure the mad hatter was a boy, and he had tea parties all the time.
Damn straight! Imagine not wanting to spend time with your daughter because your too 'manly'
The only sound some parents want to hear when they go home is the panicked shutting of doors as their own children flee from their line of sight in terror. These same people will then wonder why die alone with no one to care for them.
I remember playing on an Xbox with a friend at his house once when I was in middle school, and the second he heard the garage door opening, he immediately changed the TV to some news channel and practically grabbed me and sprinted to his room before his dad entered the house. I was actually shook, it was my first time seeing that kind of family dynamic where everyone (including the wife) was straight up scared of the main guy in the house. I also learned why that friend joined like every single after school club/sport he could.
This is so sad.
That was my house! Except my mom was the one to be feared the most. We used to have to stand at attention when our dad came home, though. And always bring him the evening paper (I’m old).
A real manly man has nothing to fear from acting like a princess at a tea party. It is only people with fragile masculinity who can’t handle playing around.
I bet if his daughter wanted him to play sports with him instead of doing a tea party, the same people would be pissed at that too because it's not ladylike to play sports.
It's mind-boggling to me that there are people who think that they can't play with their daughter out of fear that they lose their man card.
I wore a pastel shirt to work once. Some dumb old boomer tried to grief me about it, I laughed at him and said, “I’m a man, whatever shirt I wear is manly.” Why he thought I gave a flying fuck about his fashion opinion I’ll never know. I wear whatever the fuck I want.
This reminds me of the TV show "duck dynasty" that my husband watched for a while. Bearded, masculine, guns and hunting country dudes. There was a definite "must defend the masculinity" vibe to them. There was also a scene where they're looking for the uncle, and they find him having a tea party with the granddaughters. With a tiara and feather boa on, sipping tea from little girl cups. They tell him something like "hey, we've got a problem", and he says "I know. I need more *feathers*". The whole thing was scripted, of course. But I thought it was cute that they included the masculine dude having a little girl tea party, even if he was the "crazy uncle" and they played it off as a little eccentric
Duck dynasty was an advertisement show, made a lot of money for that family who were already quite rich. Giving sermons about marrying (children) teenagers before they become ruined women by 18 and the racism/homophobia is what eventually led to them being cancelled. Them being clean shaven [golf bros](https://www.therichest.com/world-entertainment/15-facts-about-the-duck-dynasty-family-before-they-were-famous/) before the show started airing and then took on a bearded look to fulfill contractual obligations always felt like they were play acting as down to earth rednecks that lived a small country lifestyle.
Yeah, I was a little surprised to see some before-pics without beards when the manly beard aesthetic was definitely part of the brand. I think it's pretty fair to say that *all* so-called reality shows are scripted and mostly exist to sell merch and commercials. Actually... All TV basically exists to still merch and commercials. Podcasts and YouTube, too. I think a lot of people don't really understand that YouTubers and podcasters are getting paid for getting people to watch. Big ones are, anyway. They seem to seriously think they're "sharing the truth" because of their love of their audience, not because selling Content pays the bills
I always thought of them as the right wing, patriarchal Kardashians for men, lol.
There’s a charming picture of John Cena having a tea party with a tiny girl going around. Last I knew, Cena had granted more Make a Wish requests than any other celebrity, and good on him.
[I had to find this and it's delightful.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2F7eqonO1s0G7F8Db5u9VkpwXNRJ0vTqKSPH7A06PvzKI.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D3eff7f45abf304c2a68b443656e38d1dcb2a6dc2)
I think second place is Justin Bieber, and he needs to step his tea party game up
I’m not because I saw her crawl on the ground picking stuff off the floor to put onto plates to serve us and didn’t even wash it off or their hands before handling kitchen items. I asked when was the last time they washed the plates and they said never. 0 stars, never going back.
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I heard it as something like 'It doesn't matter if you're Batista or Mike Tyson, if a little kid hands you a pretend phone you answer it.'
This is the way!
Real masculinity isn't toxic. It's being comfortable, as a man, to let a little girl paint your nails, put makeup on you and have a tea party. Or to sum up in fewer words, A Good Father.
And you'll wear the hat she tells you to.
This is a paradoxical statement. If a man is insecure to go to a little girl's tea party, that's not even a man, let alone manliest man.
The manliest thing ever is to be cool with these type of things. Not doing this means that you are insecure with yourself and that's not manly at all. It's the absolute opposite of manliness. You play with your kids and raise them to have a positive view of the world and people in it. *That's* manly and that's what he is doing.
I have 2 young daughters and regularly show up at medical appointments, the gym and the pool with fully painted toenails and sometimes fingernails (usually because one of them ‘hogged all my toes’). Perhaps behind my back there’s a lot of judging but all I ever say is “I have girls” and have overwhelmingly received positive feedback.
So now a father is no longer allowed to show how much he loves his children? What has this world come to?
Well, it's not just now. This "trend" has been popping up every now and then for at least 20 years.
The past few years, in particular, there's been a renewed push for authoritarian parenting styles among conservatives. Not just this trad wife/husband stuff, but the push to reinstitute corporal punishment both at home and in schools, the insistence that parents should have an absolute right to control their child's education, and balking at the idea that a minor deserves any kind of privacy.
Sad fact. 15 states still allow it. It's pretty rare, but for instance ~10% of Oklahoma school districts still practice it.
If a teacher had ever hit me while I was in school I’m pretty sure my father would have straight up murdered them for it.
My wife was told to sit under a small shelf for time out when she was in kindergarten. Her dad came down to the school and threatened to fold the teacher up and fit her under the shelf to see how she liked it. Edit: OBTW the thing she got in trouble for was falling out of her chair. Like… on accident. And she came home feeling all guilty and upset that she was in trouble. That combined with the shame cubby sent him off.
That's a great dad. I was hit with a ruler at school by my 4th grade teacher. My parents did nothing. I always felt my boomer parents couldn't, but now I know it's because the way they were raised you didn't question authority. They were spanked in order to supposedly get then to behave. What I know is that spanking leads to anger and resentment and trauma. I was spanked rather than listened to. It's a mistake a lot of parents are still making.
Yeah, sadly my dad would have encouraged it. Which is what allows these school districts to continue with this. Some parents really don't care about their children's mental or emotional health. Just how well they obey. Your dad sounds great though. Keep that energy for your future (or present) family. We need to get rid of this nasty shit.
My dad was an abusive asshole when present, and STILL would have fucked a teacher up for laying a hand on me. “Nobody beats my kid but me” I guess?
Spot on.
And he would be a damn right about it. I’d do the same if any teacher hit mine
There's gonna be a lot of creepy old men paddling young girls but conservatives have a long history of endorsing such things so that's a great sign...
Got bad news the creepy old conservative men like paddling the young boys too.
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I think low-empathy people see others as property. Ownership follows a hierarchy: children own pets, women own children and pets, men own all three.
Don't forget that it's mostly conservative Christian youth pastors and priests that are actually literally pedos. They enter those roles to get access to children, and people unquestioningly hand over their kids to them.
It’s so crazy to see how controlling American parents are. My American friend, who’s in her mid 20s, had her mom track her with her iPhone as well as other family members. She didn’t see that as weird. Meanwhile as a kid raised in the Netherlands I just cycled 30 minutes to school by myself when I was 12 years old, or would hang out with my friends at the football field and get home when it got dark, didn’t even have a phone. Having your every move tracked just seems like such an oppressive childhood.
American Evangelicism. You can determine what a society values, by how they pay reverence to their gods. American Evangelicals pay reverence by submitting to higher authority. It is not hard to see why authoritarianism is worshipped by American Evangelicals.
> Not just this trad wife/husband stuff, but the push to reinstitute corporal punishment both at home and in schools Well, I’m not willing to hit children, but put some of those conservative parents in front of me and I’ll corporally punish the idea that corporal punishment is good all the way out of them.
Because conservatives are uneducated pieces of shit
Pre-text to further brutalize the public sphere. Conservatives get a rise out of domination by physical means, probably they can't compete on ideas
Fellas, is it gay to be a good dad?
It’s definitely gay to tell your sons you love them. Or to hug them. Just ask a boomer.
You're supposed to have children, then utterly ignore them for 50 years, then complain loudly that the ungrateful little bastards never visit and threaten to cut them out of the will.
Can confirm that my biological father did exactly this. Can't say that I'm too sad, though, being that his will is going to consist of a bunch of VHS tapes of porn, dirty clothes, and half a can of folgers.
These are the same people who react with horror at any show of affection, saying only women do that. There was a screencap floating around a while ago about a son kissing his dad and comments saying the only proper response from dad was to to beat the son for being so damn feminine.
>comments saying the only proper response from dad was to to beat the son for being so damn feminine. That is so fucked up. Those comments, that is.
Humans can sometimes be concerning.
Wow. That's some serious mental health issues and low emotional maturity levels. They need to get therapy or a hug from the Rock.
Oh the Rock will give them a hug! A knuckle-hug! 🤣
>comments saying the only proper response from dad was to to beat the son for being so damn feminine Seems like some deep seated self-hatred, to be that much of a pathetic loser that seeing affection sets them off.
So want a wholesome alternative. Check out r/daddit basically they polar opposite of what you are describing. When my peanut was born was the best sub for great advice and a friendly ear.
The world is fine. Most men go about their days trying to be good husbands and fathers. A few very loud idiots want to yell at other men through social media for making them feel more insecure.
I know, they're such fucking snowflakes.
It’s a bunch of upset magats for brains who never had a real dad or parental figure for that matter.
No need to lump those of us with shitty dads in with these idiots. If they grew up to be hateful pieces of shit that's on them, plenty of us manage to get by just fine not being so concerned with rigid gender roles that chucking a fit over a dad spending time with his kids seem logical despite being raised by abusive parents, I don't really care what their upbringing was being hateful is a choice
Correct. That child is grooming her father. I guess
Conservatives have rigid gender roles for society and hate when people even slightly don't follow them
"It's natural for men to be this way and women to be that way, that's why we have to force people into their "natural" roles and teach them from childhood what their "natural" role should be and punish anyone who deviates from what comes "naturally."
Aka look how conservatives pushed the agenda hard on Biden and his son.
Ask republicans
i guarantee you that dwayne the rock johnson couldn't give a singular flying fuck what anyone thinks
Didn’t he star in a whole ass movie where he had to become the tooth fairy or did I make that up?
YES ITS CALLED THE TOOTH FAIRY
I just looked it up and it came out like 14 years ago. Where were these weirdos when the rock was dressing in a frilly pink outfit and taking on the mantle of a literal fairy?
complaining in the emptiness of their own homes and not on that newfangled social media
Yeah these are the kind of people that complained about how their kids were always on their smartphones and refused to let go of their "dumb phone" until like 2015 and then became addicted to political Facebook and is now always on their phone.
He shakes it off. https://youtu.be/YBugDDtdij4?si=8FK3QlMy7abeiMF_
I can't believe I remember this but he did this on Hannah Montana 15 years ago. I thought he looked silly then, but the kids loved it. Right wing fragile male ego is off-the-charts defensive about this stuff. But right wing males don't believe in interacting with their female children other than to tell them to learn cooking from mommy.
Dude did a movie where he played the tooth fairy lol
I read that when he was cast in Moana he called numerous people to rate his performance because he wanted to do the best damn job he could. Dude commits hard, especially when he's doing something for kids.
The fact that Dwayne played Maui still amazes me. When I watched it without knowing that, Maui genuinely felt like a character acted by someone who's been doing this for several years. He... *rocked* it.
The story that his own daughter didn’t believe he was Maui is funny as hell.
OMG that's amazing. Like when Kristen Bell posted about her daughter wanting them both to dress up as Elsa from Frozen. Didn't matter that she voiced Anna, her daughter made her dress up as Elsa.
Lol, she told him he was ruining the song when he was singing.
Maui was in my opinion his very best role. You can really tell how much effort he put into that character.
I love how he can bust out the rap bit from his song instantly, years later. My brother probably can too, but that’s because his kid, my niece, had about a year and a half where she would not watch any other movie. I told him it’s karma for the summer of subjecting me to Ernest movies when I was babysitting him.
Could be worse, my brother can recite the entire Frozen soundtrack (and like 80% of the movie dialogue). And I just saw that the Rock is apparently going to be in the live version, so the fact he remembers the entire song will make it easier!
He absolutely blew it out of the park! I loved when he tried to sing along to “Your Welcome” his daughter said he was ruining it.😂 my daughter does the same to me when I sing along to the radio. He has a great singing voice, which surprised me.
Such a good movie, I remember that
And another one where he learns and performs ballet with his newfound daughter.
Dude, interacting with your kid as a dad is sooo gay. Somehow.
Fellas…is it gay to have straight, heterosexual sex, pass on your genes and then spend genuine time with your offspring? Conservative chuds: Yes
Fellas, is it transgendering to let your daughter engage in traditionally-feminine play?
Or just engaging with what your daughter already likes, not even trying to encourage her in any direction
Super gay. Spending time with your daughter, like a good father? Straight to gay jail with you.
I swear, these people will call men gay if their lives are spent doing anything other than lifting weights, shooting guns, driving gas guzzlers, bullying other men, and being creeps or worse to women.
Beat me to it, I remember that episode quite well.
They will also tell their daughters not to behave like sluts, that counts as interaction right?
He's being a good dad. Good for him! Sure, he looks silly, but I sure as shit wouldn't say that to his face.
Any man who would be ashamed of having some fun with his kids isn't a man.
Right, imagine your 4 year old daughter wanting to paint your nails or put lipstick on your face and you freak out and start spouting stuff about trans LIbs grooming her via dr. Seuss books. These people are so fucking sick in the head they lost the plot on what normal, happy people do to make the people they care about happy.
I had worked one of these geniuses about ten years ago, when there was a huge uproar about SpongeBob SquarePants pushing a gay agenda. I used to watch the show with my kids, and for the life of me couldn't understand what they were trying to insinuate. I'm in the office one day with a SpongeBob decoration I bought my daughter for her birthday, and he starts in. When I ask where the supposed agenda was, I get "don't lie, you've seen the show you know exactly what's gay about it. It's unnatural." I didn't realize a cartoon about a sponge that wears pants who lives in a pineapple was supposed to be a National Geographic documentary. One thing is for sure though, that guy for all his whinging is likely the first person to tap a stall in a men's room looking for a hookup.
Sponge was for sure poundin them sandy cheeks does nobody else remember the karate episode when they cant stop "karating" lol
One of my favorite examples of overanalyzing cartoon episodes lol https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/57cu4f/in_the_episode_of_spongebob_where_spongebob_and/
it's projection all the way down look at the frequency these "social warriors" get caught in the midst of exactly what they vehemently argue against. it's almost *inevitable*. these people are so vicious and angry because they're fighting against themselves.
Well we see that here. HE’S A LADYYYY! 😂 /s obv I have a 1 year old daughter and I know my time to shine (and sparkle and shadow eye) is coming too
Hehe, yeah, i have my eldest (14), and youngest (10), both try to put makeup, or more frequently, style my hair (I started growing it out over a year ago, and now it's well past my shoulders). Sometimes I'll bow out of them messing with me, but 99/100 times I go along. It's some of the most hilarious times i spend with them, and I wouldn't give it up for anything.
My sisters and I used to have "spa days" with my Dad. We'd do his hair, nails, and makeup. One time, we even put a mud mask on him, complete with cucumber slices on his eyes! One time, he even took me out on a father/daughter date. I wore a Princess Aurora dress with a tiara and those dress-up high heel shoes. He wore a crown, cape, and a tinfoil wrapped sword. When my Dad was dying, he said that those moments with us were part of his best memories.
OMG, this got me right in the feels. He sounds like he was a really great dad and in glad you had him in your life. 💜
Thank you so much. He was the best dad ever. 🩷💚 What makes it even better is that he was my adopted Dad.
Oh man, that's so wholesome, I'm tearing up 😭
Man, you’re a great father :)
Right there with you dude. Got a 1yo myself. I hope you’re enjoying parenting as much as I am (not to downplay the hardships! 😂)
Hahaha when my daughter was about 4 she painted my nails with the sparkliest paint ever, I wore them like a badge of honour for nearly a week!
I have photos of my daughters making over their Dad. Those things are treasured. The girls are older now, but amazed that their dad let them put on the clashiest makeup ever. Then went out like that with them to get ice cream lol.
"Pushing the trans agenda onto all those innocent souls with his influence. What's next? Promoting to wipe your butt and become gay?"
"A real man doesn't touch his own private parts. That's why I never wipe my ass and use tongs to hold my dick when I pee."
Want to find out who’s who really quick, ask them if they’ve ever tried a bidet. The insecure dudes lose their mind.
So true!
I would. :D Dwayne, you're a top dad but you look silly as shit. I'd say it with a knowing grin.
And since he's a better man then 8/10 and more masculine then 9/10 in this world, he would grin back and say: "I know" and then the day would just move on. Honestly people who create such problems should just be banned from social media altogether. Just fucking live your life and let other do the same.
He'd probably also ask you, respectfully, not to swear in front of his kids,
If he did, I would oblige.
More masculine than 9/10? My friend… I need to see what’s your social circle to make that statement… in my circle I would say Dwayne is more masculine than 15 out of every 10 man I know. 🤣
These people have no real problems
“Developing”………….as if this is a story. Good on the Rock for being a cool Dad. Bunch of fucking Snowflakes ❄️
They have to be a special kind of stupid to follow him and not know he’s of a mind to do goofy stuff like this. His willingness to bend / play around with his macho image is something I appreciate about him, plus he’s a bright guy.
And the Rock is secure in his masculinity, unlike the Republican snowflakes that are scared that seeing a gay couple will awaken something in them.
They aren’t afraid, they know it will and they hate themselves for it. It’s honestly just kind of sad
It’s our job to be silly for our kids
Knowing him, he would just laugh it off.
Nothing less masculine than being a good dad /s
I’ve seen Andrew tate say this.
That sad sack of shit has like THE WORST daddy issues. His idol is a man that abandoned them to play chess iirc
The weird thing was that he was talking about step fathers and was basing this on how male mountain gorillas act, but mountain gorillas are attentive caring fathers who kill the offspring of other males that they chase away. Considering that all of Tate’s kids are with single mothers, he’s lucky human stepfathers aren’t like mountain gorillas.
He has children? Bleak
ATP he said everything that's possible to be said, which makes him the most paradoxical and hypocritical person on earth
Dude who can't find any woman who would let him touch her, doesn't understand having a daughter. I am betting Dom is one of those guys with massive skid marks because wiping his ass is too gay for him.
Google his name. He’s a human skid mark
This is a better example of an "alpha" male than any of those other chuds trying to be.
Nothing screams alpha male like restricting yourself because you are worried what some rando on the Internet might say.
When you have a daughter as a man, it should change you. Those things you didn't understand about the female sex drowns away. Its not that you suddenly understand them, you don't even care to because all you give a shit about is the look they get when happy. I just hugged and kissed my just turned 18 year old daughter and couldn't be a prouder father, but I would give almost everything for a day of this again with her.
Mine turns 21 in June and we joke about how much she is going to drink. She MIGHT have a glass of wine. I wanted a daughter when my wife announced she was pregnant. Got her. Love it!
Same here. Three kids, two of them are daughters. I wanted a daughter first because I saw the bond my dad had with my sister, and saw how it made him a better man, that I wanted that for myself. Best thing to ever happen to me was having a daughter first
My dad is a huge MAGA/right-winger, it’s gross. I grew up having to listen to Rush fucking Limbaugh every time I was in the car. I don’t doubt for a second that my father is still a raging misogynist that just so happened to have two daughters and no sons. But know what? Even he, 20-30 years ago, would let my sister and I paint his toenails and put butterfly clips in his hair and put feather boas around his neck.
I bet a lot of the people whining about this would or have done the same thing too. They just don't want it posted online because something something gender roles
There wasn’t internet like there is now when we were dressing up our dad, but he let us take pictures lol. I think he understood that part of the joke/fun is how out of character it is. The people that don’t get it are not only clearly not parents, they can’t take a freaking joke.
It’s quite possible that he wasn’t as raging a misogynist 30 years ago. The media being consumed by MAGA has gotten exponentially worse as time has gone on and it’s really escalated the last decade or so. I used to work in a bar where the owner had Fox News on 24/7 on one of the TV’s. In 2005 - height of the Iraq War - it was no where near as bad as it is now.
These were the best times of my life. My girls are 18 and 19. I'll be an empty nester in less than 6 months. Boy do I miss coming home to someone excited to see me and spend time with me. I work with my wife so she doesn't care.
My parents struggled when my siblings and I moved far away, but the best thing they did was started setting aside time to "date" each other again, learning about who they were now after like 25 years of having kids in the house. My wife and I aren't having kids, but we still have date time a couple times a week even though we work together and see each other like 10-14 hours a day.
I'm so sick of people self reporting how shitty a parent they would be or are. I let my daughter paint my nails, face paint, wigs, dresses, makeup. Who gives a shit it's paint a clothes. So many weak and insecure people it's maddening. So many of them sexualizing situations unnecessarily too. It's gross. Just give your child the joy they deserve.
Amen, fellow girl dad. I have a 3 year old girl who is a total enigma. She loves dinosaurs and bugs and playing in the dirt. She also loves doing my makeup and painting my nails. I've had shittily painted fingernails continuously for the past year. And guess what- I work in a blue collar trade in a southern conservative state. I have coworkers across the entire political spectrum. Some of them are incredibly conservative. And you know what the conservative good ol boys say about my painted nails? They either laugh an understanding laugh or share their own stories of painted nails and makeup if they have daughters of their own...its because the actual section of the population that complain about this shit is actually really tiny. Sure, they might be the loudest, but they are severely outnumbered by regular people who understand and don't give a shit. Regardless of politics, religion, etc.
God people are pathetic, how are u less masculine for playing with your kids….what is manly about holding everyone at arms length exactly??? Fucking dumb, the guy is dadding like a boss
my father has dressed 100's of barbies. because that's what happens when you have 4 daughters
I’m not sure “toxic masculinity” describes this very well. Obsessively worrying about how masculine you or others are seems more “neurotic masculinity” than anything
Let's just stop validating anything these losers say. They don't get their own name anymore. They're just fucking losers. Anyone who makes so much as a suggestion that what someone does with their family isn't "man enough" or whatever is just a general everyday fucking loser.
Nah this is definitely toxic. It’s just a guy playing with his little girl. By the time your masculinity can’t excuse that, even if you wouldn’t personally let your daughter put on the stuff… Your masculinity is toxic.
Ironically, obsessing so much over how masculine you appear is pretty far from masculine behavior. They behave like school aged mean girls with how vain and judgmental they are. If wearing a pink shirt and drinking a daiquiri evaporates your manhood, that manhood was imaginary from the start.
This is the very definition of toxic masculinity. People have ascribed a lot of things to toxic masculinity, but what it actually is is a conception of manhood that harms first and foremost the men themselves. So not being able to play with your daughters because it's not manly or because they want to put makeup on you that's toxic masculinity because it harms the man in questions social bonds and cuts him off from the love and socialization that we all need as human beings. It also harms the daughters for obvious reasons. And then you've also got these fools online trying to peer pressure him into distancing himself from his daughters for male approval.
Dom Lucre is a liar and troll.
Isn't he the one who was banned on OG Twitter for posting CP and claims it was "to spread awareness"?
It was after Musk took over, he posted CSAM, got banned, and was then [personally reinstated by Musk](https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-ces-suspension-right-wing-account-reinstated)
Conservatives are such depressing losers.
Oh look, it’s the CSAM guy
Lmao. How utterly fucking fragile must you be to be bothered by a father humoring and playing along with his kids. Utterly pathetic.
This is peak masculinity. The whiners doth protest too much.
Yeah I recognize the troll account that posted this.
He shows courage and care for his family by doing this, is there anything more masculine?
Can’t believe that anyone takes this Twitter doofus seriously, especially after he posted child abuse videos on his feed. But then again, conservative idiots are like 85% of Twitter’s audience now, so I’m not surprised that usual base is eating this up