This woman behind me at the doctor’s office has now said at least five times that her 9-month-old baby is “a flirt” and how he “flirts with all the ladies”.
Yes, this babbling infant who is currently being amused by car keys and mouth smacking noises is a master at romance and is certainly not just cooing at anyone who comes into his still-limited visual range because that is literally the only thing he knows how to do.
the thing that makes me the angriest about this bullshit
and it is bullshit, just the most patented, reeking bullshit imaginable
is that the justification i always hear when people are called out on this jackassery is that ‘well, he gets so much more excited to see ladies than men’ and it’s like – do you really not
are you really so fucking stupid that you don’t realize the reason for that? that women are allowed, it’s socially acceptable for strange women to fawn over other people’s babies. it’s practically expected. Of course your infant responds more often to the attention of strange women – because that’s the attention he is used to getting, you absolute waffle.
like, men getting all excited and curious about strange babies tends to be seen as suspect, because we as a species have fucking failed at developing as society. Your baby doesn’t respond as often to men because he’s not exposed to them as often or in the same way.
stop sexualizing your fucking infants you absolute knobs.
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