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Call of Daddy (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 24 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I meant I could get behind them using other aesthetics, not military, but were chosen with adults/parents in mind.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    What if you want it to look like a diaper bag without being in baby pastels? Is that ok or just the patriarchy again?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I don't think i have ever owned anything camouflaged and i never seen anyone wearing camouflage thinking that it doesn't look ridiculous. I'm all for practical stuff and i like my things to be optimised and well aranged. If it needs to look like you go into desert storm with your 2 year old to feel better about yourself, i guess. It's not much different than a woman wearing make up or high heels, just for rednecks

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