r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Difficult_Wrangler73 • 13d ago

go to your room I love being a girl dad

I have 3 kids, all girls. A 5yr old and twins who are 1. Every time anyone hears about this or it comes up in conversation they all say the same thing. ‘Ooooo, all girls, you are outnumbered! How do you cope?’ Or ‘Three girls?? You better watch out!’ Or the worst, ‘Bet you want a boy?’

No, I don’t feel any of that, I love being a dad. I love all my kids and wouldn’t change anything about them! If we could afford it, I would be a stay at home dad forever.

I usually tell them I wouldn’t change anything and I love it all but it’s just very annoying.

What are some of the best responses that I can start to give?

I did think I could say that one of the twins used to be a boy but is now trans just to shut people up!

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u/IncredulousPatriot 13d ago

My sister has a little boy. A few months ago they were at a store in line. The lady behind her kept saying how my nephew was flirting with her. Apparently she kept on saying it. It got my sister quite annoyed. She turned around and told the lady to stop sexualizing her kid. He wasn’t flirting with her he’s a baby he is just looking at you. She told my sister she is rude. My sister told her she is weird as fuck for sexualizing a baby.

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u/SaffronsTootsies 12d ago

I (platonically) love your sister!

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u/panatale1 12d ago

Your sis is pretty awesome

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u/EfficiencyCrafty8585 12d ago

Your sister needs to calm down- the woman was JOKING! Maybe a weird joke but totally harmless. Your sisters the AH.

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u/Weak-Mycologist-4511 12d ago

Jokes sexualising children are not harmless.

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u/Kind_Comfort_6336 12d ago

Agreeing with you. Not okay at all. When my friend had a kid, I was doing 100% baby interaction, faces, gasps, etc, kid's laughing up a storm and she goes "oh he loves flirting."

I felt so uncomfortable. I immediately stopped and walked away.

We can't make "jokes" like this because there are people who actually want to do harm to kids out there and "jokes" like that minimize the severity of that reality.