I got one, in 2019 when I had my first kid because I’m a gamer and thought it was cool…Covid hit and never used it lol.
NGL as a dad myself, I would be far more likely to make fun of this guy and his tacticool diaper bag than any dad carrying around the girliest bag their wife obviously picked out. It's way cooler to not give a shit what other people think of your child raising accessories.
Also, it looks like he is wearing his child as a tiny human shield. Squishy plate carrier.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in my local birthing center's new parent training, and I've been involved in numerous home diaper changes, and I have over 300 confirmed formula bottles. I am trained in gorilla binkies and I'm the top "got your nose" player in the entire US playground system. You are nothing to me but just another babysitter. I will put your baby the fuck to naptime with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of nannies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your diaper genie. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can change your diaper in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in one-armed baby wipe retrieval, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the American Association of Pediatrics and I will use it to its full extent to wipe the miserable shit off your baby's butthole, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
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.
It's good advertising is what it is.
They know there are millions of underdeveloped, insecure men out there that need to feel like they aren't the little bitches they actually are.
Call of doody
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 much marketing is directed towards men set on convincing others they're not gay
Which in itself is kinda gay lol
Not that there's anything wrong with that
Wow a recent Seinfeld reference - nice!
That reference is old enough that Seinfeld himself wouldn't date it.
I'm so confused, what is even satire anymore?
Well Idiocracy definitely isn't satire anymore.
Yo, guys. Is it gay to take care of your kids?
Better butch this up.
My daughters diaper bag was vintage Gucci , get with it tacticool dad
I'm not a regular dad. I'm a cool dad
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.
For the most fragile of egos.
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.
Masculinity, so fragile...
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.
No. Thinking that girly bags make you girly is the same as saying skinny jeans makes you gay.
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.
I don't have an issue with the product. It could be funny in the right context.
I have a problem with the manner it's marketed. The ad doesn't say good things about its own product, but instead tries to attack competing products as girly.
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.
I meant I could get behind them using other aesthetics, not military, but were chosen with adults/parents in mind.
Plenty of diaper bags with sportsball branding and Comic Books for Adults aesthetics.
Of course, there's a lot of military advertising in both of these media circuits, so... shrug Any time you need to make your diaper bag look like something other than a diaper bag in order to feel secure, you've been cowed by The Patriarchy.
I also wondered about this, so I googled "diaper bag". Literally all the results just look like normal bags. They aren't covered in rainbows and butterflies. Just a random color + bag.
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.
This is why I got one in 2019 but never got to use it because of Covid. Probably shouldn’t use it now with the new one on the way.
Sadly, yeah. Like, a Hawaiian shirt and stupid tactical gear should be silly guy outfit, not "bring the race war".
It kind of started as a joke. I remember "serious" brands like maxpedition having baby bags with tounge in cheek names, as well as places online like think geek selling "tactical baby bags" and the like.
Yeah, I do sort of remember some of that. It's one of those things where I think people realized that the people laughing hardest weren't laughing at the same joke, and that kinda takes something away.
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