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.
It's the association with what they believe, not what they wear and not their insecurity.
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!"
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.
Yo, guys. Is it gay to take care of your kids?
Better butch this up.
If this motivates them into being good dads then great
Pretty much.
The tactical dads I know are a bit cringy with their military swag, but they're around for their kids.
Masculinity, so fragile...
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.
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.
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.
Ya, I'm not into the aesthetic but it does represent the societal progress in parental roles.
The molle panel could hold so many binky leashes too.
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.
Just more conservative overcompensation for perceived loss of masculinity. It’s all to manipulate the sheep who think they are lions.
It's a diaper bag, calm down.
That's what we're saying, yes.
Elon Musks bullet proof vest.
True, but this post is about the carrier, not the baby itself.
Such a waste. Men get so few opportunities to wear peppa pig branded gear and still get respect and recognition from passers by.
Peppa Pig is a shit head. Her dad is one of the worst personification of a father that I have ever seen in a children's show.
Why would I want to represent that?
Now a Bluey Diaper Bag ...
The biggest perk of obvious-looking diaper bags is that you can sneak weed brownies into pretty much any event or theme park.
Don't worry, I'm sure they make peppa pig tactical patches
I kind of want to see black and white Peppa Pig skull patches that poke fun at Punisher patches, but I think the irony would be beyond the thin blue line crowd.
sorry, but the closest thing to that I could find was a hello kitty punisher skull
That works too I suppose.
*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.
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.
You might look GAY for even holding a purse.
This viral "comedy" video always bugged the fuck out of me.
Yes but why is looking "Gay" so villified that many men would rather die.
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.
Help, I can't see my baby. I put them down on the grass and now they're gone!
The baby must be at least Level IIIA / III right? Better than no plate at all.
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