“Just have to say – f–k clothes like this.”
Fed up of the ‘incompetent dad’ stereotype?
You know the one – ‘dad can’t be left alone with the kids’, ‘dad can’t change a nappy’, ‘dad can’t cook dinner’.
It’s a trope that’s been perpetuated in ads and the media for donkey years and now dads on Reddit thread are getting annoyed about a fairly sexist babygro.
Spotted by user newdad816, it reads “This shirt is daddy-proof” and is labelled to show where the arm and head should go. Really.
For the hands-on dads on this thread, this was pretty insulting.
They shared their own experiences of being belittled in the thread.
“My daughter is only two weeks old and I’m already sick of this shit. I change diapers better than my wife, I burp her better than my wife, I put in car seats better than my wife, a change diapers better than my wife. I’m attentive and loving. People see this and still say things like ‘well, it’s her baby’ or ‘but she’s the mother’. Yes, it is, but she is also mine just as much as it’s hers.”
“‘Oh, you’re mister mom today?/Oh, you’re babysitting today?’ No, you condescending ass, I’m parenting.”
“The dumb dad stereotype. It makes simple things like taking your kid to the park or cooking them dinner, seem like an impossible task.”
“I just have to say, businesses are missing out on a whole market by excluding dads/fathers. It’s only hurting themselves in the long run.
“I get told, ‘Oh my your such a great father!’ When I’ve literally done nothing but be you’re average parent. I hate it because my wife bust her ass doing a lot and nobody looks at her and say, ‘Oh my you’re such a wonderful mother.'”
Eh, no.
Anyone with a caring, attentive dad in their lives will know just how unfair and unfunny ‘joke’ items like this are.
They also further the idea that mums should do everything and we, for one, are having absolutely none of that.
