Actually kind of looks cool if you are into military gear… what’s the big deal.
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Yeah, it looks like it's got a lot od straps to make it easy to adjust and ir looks better then the stupid fucking colors of other baby carriers. The wide shoulder straps look comfortable too
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the kid doesn't even get their own holster? WTF is the kid supposed to do with it's gun?
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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.
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!
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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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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.
I'm so confused, what is even satire anymore?
Kevlar for your baby seems like a good idea in the US
I mean, with how America is going, a kevlar baby carrier might be a reasonable purchase. Sigh.
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Tactical papoose.
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?
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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.
Is it okay to say I like the color and it looks more comfortable then the other carriers I have seen?