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Laugh it up, funny boy. I know that even my six month old gets called up and sent to Afghanistan I'll be ready and you won't.
So, I don't hate tacti-cool baby gear, but it does make me angry.
It should have been high quality baby gear targeted at guys being silly. The glaring contrast between its function and its theme should be intentionally funny.
Instead you've got sexist shit trying to convince guys that it's okay, you can still be hyper masculine even if you care for your children, and selling profoundly inferior crap that's not even leveraging the ridiculous marketing options.
All the actual baby supply companies have instead started using the stuff you would want out of "tactical baby gear", and coloring it in cheerful colors that aren't traditionally gendered.
It's just a wasted opportunity for a good laugh that instead brings more shit into the world.
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I'm so confused, what is even satire anymore?
*American men
EDIT: a few disagreed, at least with their votes, but you don't see this military obsession anywhere else, except perhaps North Korea.
EDIT2: I find it funny that I've gone from -2 to -5 and still nobody has written a reply explaining exactly what I've said is "wrong". The thing is that I think I'm right, and unless someone else explains why I'm wrong, that's not going to change anything! USA is a joke! Just like North Korea! Just like any authoritarian country! And in case you were on the fence: FUCK THE POLICE!
There are many places of the world you can't even wear camo because you literally have to be active military to do so.
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Is it okay to say I like the color and it looks more comfortable then the other carriers I have seen?
No, men are not ok.
Sometimes I’ll get an ad for something like a “tactical windbreaker” or “tactical cargo pants” and I panic and think “what have I done that the surveillance state thinks I want this?!”
Until I saw some of these ads I never considered a windbreaker could even be tactical or whatever the alternative is, strategic? Am I wearing strategic pants because they aren’t tactical?
I say this literally wearing a pair of Underarmor Cargo pants - things marketed as tactical are cringe. I keep an Arktis pack jacket in my car in case of rain alongside an e-tool.
Anyone who can't stand to carry the Minnie Mouse shoulder bag full of diapers is a total loser. If you buy anything 'tactical' to assert your 'manhood' you only further prove it only took you 20 seconds to do your part of the work for making the baby.
If they’re camo they’re tactical, if they’re black they’re strategic, and if it doesn’t have a place to holster a gun then it’s just women’s clothing. If you don’t have a quick pull holster in your baby carrier with five extra magazines and a flash bang then the terrorists have already won. Freedom isn’t free, or something like that.
got a lot of this guy, he's never heard of the tactleneck in slightly darker black
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I'm a woman, but I feel like if I were a man I'd be offended by the fact that large swathes of America seem to think that manhood and the military and its aesthetics are the same thing.
Like, men can have other jobs. I've known men who are accountants and scientists and even healthcare workers and educators. I've known men who are pacifists and anti war activists. Hell men can even have other interests that are culturally associated with their gender. You could do sports themed baby bags, or "fun things culturally associated with kids doing with dad" ones, or even barely change the aesthetic but make it astronaut themed.
Like, I worry that this increasing association between masculinity and the military is being done on purpose in an attempt to prime young men to go lose parts of their bodies and minds in foreign countries, and I'm reminded of the cultural buildup to the first world war
Good idea let's push men out of the parental roles we said they had to take up while simultaneously still expecting them to pull the trad bread winner roles.
I mean, with how America is going, a kevlar baby carrier might be a reasonable purchase. Sigh.
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Tactical papoose.