Even as a father I’ll never understand the weird insecurity that dads like this experience. Like, am I thrilled that my kid is eventually going to grow up to probably grind and smash with her boyfriends behind the Quiznos? Of course not. But being brooding and possessive about it is weird. Maybe even Alabama kind of weird.
I always find it interesting how some parents do this weird “don’t touch my daughter” but mix it with “give me grandkids!!”… like, you can’t have it both ways.
Throw stick! No take! Only throw!
Ah, but the doublethink is the point! Add in a lil religious hypocrisy, and oh baby you got a Southern American stew goin.
These occur at different life stages for children
Teenager years, “Don’t touch my daughter.” / “Don’t impregnate anyone.”
Mid twenty and later, “Grandbabies please.”
Maybe they’re just really pro-adoption (not enough to do it themselves, though)
Nope, not at all. My parents berated me until I was 35 to “wait until you’re ready to have kids.” Then they were like, why are you waiting to have grandkids?! You’ve been married for 5 years!!!
their daughter can have kids, but only in a mary and joseph kind of way
Not with that attitude you can’t.
Yeah my fear is that my kids will be like every teenager since the dawn of humanity and not care that much about long-term consequences.
That’s one weird thing in human, evolutionary: teenagers already get the drive (even more so than later) but the mind and body is not yet ready.
Wait, is that why we have grandparents?
Sorry, weird topic.
I 100% believe this is correct. Parents never seem ready, but damn those grandparents are!
Ew, Quiznos? I expected better of you, son.
This is the first time I’ve come across this statement… Do dads in America actually say that?
it, or a variation of it, has been in some movies/tv.
never had a date’s dad say anything remotely similar to me though.
When I was 13-14 I had this best friend, named Amber. I was terribly gay, and she dreadfully lesbian. Neither one of us had admitted it to the other, or even really ourselves. But there was a connection, and everyone just assumed we were dating. Including her dad, who spent most of his time overseas. Former military, and now he’s over there with some private fucking army or some shit. Absolutely terrifying man. Divorced from her mom, but stays with them whenever he’s stateside.
Anyway, her mom had met me once or twice, but never in the context of us dating, which we had basically decided to just go along with. Her dad came home one week, and I was so freaked out about meeting him, because I’d heard all these stories. I went over to get her, and her dad told me to come inside.
Dude was freaky, kind of an asshole, but no over protective dad shit.
Then her mom came in the room, dad asked her if she’d met “Amber’s boyfriend”
Mom was like, “yeah, but he didn’t tell me he was dating my daughter”
And then she looks me dead in the eye, and with witnesses tells 14 year old me “listen, tubby, if she ends up pregnant I’ll fuck your ass with her father’s rifle so hard you’ll spit bullets”
Her mother is so much more terrifying than her father. Super Catholic, super scary, super Chancla energy
This was long before I was alive, but apparently when my sister committed the act for the first time, she came home to my mom, who took a look at her and said “ohhh, she had seeeexxxxxxx!”
I’m not really sure which approach seems preferable.
The second one, you know where the parents genuinely love their kids
Oh I have. I had a coworker who used to brag that when his daughter had a date, he would open his garage door and start cleaning his guns so the kid would see him.
Was he Rodney Atkins?
I had an uncle say shit like this to me. Weird family.
my uncle had some beaver testicles hanging in his basement and he’d tell his daughter’s boyfriends that they were the balls of all her exes who tried anything.
my dad sat in the living room cleaning his pistol on his lap while interrogating me about my boyfriend when i was 21 and on my own.
this stuff happens and it’s gross
So if she blows you…?
He’s absolutely a truth seeker
