• Zannsolo@lemmy.world
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    I have a carrier that is “tacticool” it’s comfortable but I mock myself for having it.

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    Weak. Just buy a desert tan Pelican Case and cut a baby shaped hole in the foam. Put the baby in the case and throw the case in the back of your Humvee. That’s what a real man would do.

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    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 do like the idea the baby gear can be designed aesthetically for the parents using it. Not just soft pinks and blues, and preschool prints.

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      designed aesthetically

      “Military” as an aesthetic is very 90s-minded. Like, 30 years ago, when I was a dumb teenager who was excited to see the live-action GI Joe movie, cosplaying as an Elite Operator Guy felt no different than playing around as a cowboy or a knight or a jedi.

      Now? Idk. I can only expose myself to so many “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” gore videos, with guys dressed like that opening fire on a crowd of starving Arab children, before I’ve lost my taste for this kind of aesthetic choice. Its beginning to feel like I’m seeing a guy who wraps his kid in a swastika themed blanky.

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    This has the opposite effect to me. If I see a man taking care of their kid, taking them to the park, carrying them, generally being a parent, that to me is more manly than whatever this is.

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    All the people on here calling guys who like military/tacticool aesthetic insecure are no different than people calling guys fags for wearing skinny jeans.

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      No. Thinking that girly bags make you girly is the same as saying skinny jeans makes you gay.

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        You are making an assumption about someone’s everyone’s character, worldview, lifestyle and political association based on a single piece of information - how they like to dress. You’re one step away from crossing the street when you see a black guy or asking an asian for help with a math problem.

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      no different

      • Being insecure when you see a guy in tight pants and feeling things your pastor told you that you shouldn’t

      • Noticing insecurity in others, as they scramble to camouflage something they’ve internalized as an “other gender” coded activity.

      Turning your diaper bag into a tacti-cool military gear is more akin to the sorority sports team that needs to color everything pink and add a tutu as an accessory, so nobody will mistake them as being too butch. It’s the fashion equivalent of shouting “No Homo!”

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    Just more conservative overcompensation for perceived loss of masculinity. It’s all to manipulate the sheep who think they are lions.

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    Such a waste. Men get so few opportunities to wear peppa pig branded gear and still get respect and recognition from passers by.

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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    *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.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      What happened to men in the US that they can’t carry their children’s stuff, or can’t even hold on to their girlfriend’s handbag without having to hide in public? It’s so weird.

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        Unfortunately for me, I look like the average maga chud…

        When I hold my wife’s purse, I become instantly flamboyant. “Do you like my purse? It goes with everything! It makes me feel like a bitch!” It makes the “dudes” cringe, and I fuckin LOVE it. I also don’t mind being the one to pick up the industrial sized package of pads or tampons if I’m close to the store. (My daughter is at the point where she’s pretty shy about it.

        I am all in to take one for the team.