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"Bean dad" is one of the biggest self-own twitter threads I've seen in a while.(Up: Plus Ultra level of racism found; apology threadmarked)
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Eh... that's kinda cringe, but to say he's a terrible parent for THAT ONE STORY is a fucking huge stretch...
but then you see his other tweets, and you can definitely say he's a piece of shit towards other people... doesn't mean he will treat his child badly (he will definitely teach her bad stuff in term of ideology though, and i hope she won't get taken in all that shit)
but then you see his other tweets, and you can definitely say he's a piece of shit towards other people... doesn't mean he will treat his child badly (he will definitely teach her bad stuff in term of ideology though, and i hope she won't get taken in all that shit)
Why does every dumb post on Twitter end up having a sinister backstory?
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Oh so we're at the point where old tweets get dredged up huh
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It takes about six seconds to teach someone how to use a can opener, not six hours.
I could literally cry right now. I genuinely didn't think anyone on Era would be against this, and I'm so, so happy so many of you get why this fucking sucks.
My dad was like this. Yes, so cool, so engaged. Except he only cared about shit like this. He didn't have the slightest interest in anything my brother and I cared about. He wasn't curious about who we were, just who he wanted us to be. Anything that was outside those parameters was irrelevant to him. When he died a couple of years ago, I was shocked by how I felt. He was objectively a good parent - provided for us, taught us - but when he died, the only thing I felt was relief. Pretty fucked up, right? Especially because I would sometimes forget he was dead, and every time I remembered, it was like a weight was lifted. I'm sure part of this dynamic was due to an issue with me and my personality, I'm not trying to blame him, his intentions were nothing but good, but this was my experience. It's been over two years, and I still haven't felt anything but relief.
This guy might as well be writing to penthouse about his masturbatory sessions.
True or fake, asshole either way.
Also, he keeps referring to himself as an "apocalypse dad". Is that the straight white male STEM-absolutist disaster-larper version of wine mom?
ALSO (because this dude has layers), imagine being a fan of The Road and writing like...that.
True or fake, asshole either way.
Also, he keeps referring to himself as an "apocalypse dad". Is that the straight white male STEM-absolutist disaster-larper version of wine mom?
ALSO (because this dude has layers), imagine being a fan of The Road and writing like...that.
Probably bs story but honestly underneath all of the needless pretension it's not like it's some sort of unbelievable, mystical tome of fantasy. It's a dragged out story of a kid wanting food and her parent starving them to finish a puzzle under the disguise of teaching her how to use a fucking can opener. I don't know what's so unbelievable here lol. Biggest takeaways are:
If he does this over a can opener just imagine how he is with other and likely more important things.
Even if it is BS what kinda weirdo even thinks to make a story out of it expecting to make themselves look awesome? Lmao.
And "it's just a prank bro you fell for it" is a lame take I'm seeing on here too.
If he does this over a can opener just imagine how he is with other and likely more important things.
Even if it is BS what kinda weirdo even thinks to make a story out of it expecting to make themselves look awesome? Lmao.
And "it's just a prank bro you fell for it" is a lame take I'm seeing on here too.
So I've listened to quite a few podcasts that John Roderick hosts and at first I thought this story was 100 percent satire. Reading his responses though, I've changed my mind.
I think this is a real story he took and exaggerated greatly for comedic effect. Problem is, when people started challenging him on it, he started getting defensive because despite the jokey over the top language he really did do this. So instead of being able to laugh it off or just say "lol it's a joke!" Hes put himself in a position where he feels he has to defend his dumb story.
He just keeps digging a hole lol. He should have just taught his daughter how to use a can opener instead of being a weirdo.
I think this is a real story he took and exaggerated greatly for comedic effect. Problem is, when people started challenging him on it, he started getting defensive because despite the jokey over the top language he really did do this. So instead of being able to laugh it off or just say "lol it's a joke!" Hes put himself in a position where he feels he has to defend his dumb story.
He just keeps digging a hole lol. He should have just taught his daughter how to use a can opener instead of being a weirdo.
This doesn't make any sense, is he saying that she immediately wanted beans after lunch, and then magically finished the whole process at dinner time?
Whether it's true or not doesn't matter when I've seen parents like this (though less extreme) and people defending it. One way to ruin your child's future education is to make sure to teach them not to ask for help for fear of looking "stupid".
And it's already been said, but this sort of guy (whether dad, brother, classmate, or colleague) is the kind that deters girls and women from STEM fields.
And it's already been said, but this sort of guy (whether dad, brother, classmate, or colleague) is the kind that deters girls and women from STEM fields.
not a person anyone on here should be embedding tweets of, iirc
Cute story. Overreaction from Twitter not exactly surprising. Folks presumably without kids being like YOU MADE HER CRY. Kids cry when they can't put a whole roll of toilet paper in the toilet. They cry because they can't put ketchup on cereal. Kids cry because they can't open a can of beans lol.
6 hours without eating, in other words, the time between lunch and dinner lol.
6 hours without eating, in other words, the time between lunch and dinner lol.
While this most likely did not happen as described, if we take it at face value, he prevented his 9 year old daughter from eating for longer than 6 hours. Assuming they had breakfast at 6 am (considering he said they do 6 hours between meals), they were probably done eating by 7am (if not sooner).
That means she didn't eat for about 11 hours.
That means she didn't eat for about 11 hours.
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This is so tired and frankly insulting to those who can't have kids who would never act like this asshole.
If only we could communicate with cats, we could at least tell her that the can opener does not have any superfluous qualities.
Yeah, it's not about what he did, but how he talked about what he did and what that makes him a good dad. It's one thing to be like "If you can open this can before dinner, it's all yours!" It's another to turn opening a can into some weird kind of power trip where you teach your kid a lesson about how pathetic they are, then blast it onto the internet like you're some kinda parenting genius.
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(can't comment personally of course but it was a whole thing a few months ago. not to derail btw)
Seems like barely anyone in this thread is actually calling it child abuse.
But also, sending a kid to bed without dinner is fucked up. That's a horrible way to punish a kid, and a great way to give them food issues.
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There truly is a defense force for everything. Man you are a POS. just like him.
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(can't comment personally of course but it was a whole thing a few months ago. not to derail btw)
Yikes. But thanks for following up - genuinely didn't have a clue.
Wow, what an asshole. After 6 minutes, I would've shown her, not 6 hours like a psycho. Ridiculous.
6 hours between when a 9 year old states they are hungry and when you feed them is quite different than 6 hours between two meals.
Bean Dad is 100% Gen X. It's on brand for a Gen X'er to stand around and do fuck all to help someone and then write a long story praising themselves for it.
kids also cry when their parents are intentionally cruel towards them which seems more relevant to this thread than not being able to put ketchup on cereal
You can tell how much of a hoser this guy is by how he writes. What a loser telling a fake story.
For the sake of argument let's say, he isn't an asshole and he and his daughter were really just having fun about the whole situation.
This is doesn't changed the fact, that he wrote the story in a way, that people come to concultion, that he torment his daughter. If you tell the story, you need to make sure, that people understand you in the right way. You can't just say: "Twitter get me wrong".
This is doesn't changed the fact, that he wrote the story in a way, that people come to concultion, that he torment his daughter. If you tell the story, you need to make sure, that people understand you in the right way. You can't just say: "Twitter get me wrong".
I honestly don't see anything wrong with the story. It's not like his daughter was fucking dying from starvation. I found it heartwarming.
What was described in the Twitter thread was bad parenting. The kind that leads to kids having issues learning and eating disorders. Like, the best read you can have is he made it up, but considering people are defending it, it wasn't that great of a story to share.
Some MBMBAM fans want his song to be pulled from the show. There's a thread with screen caps of him saying some "the n-word is just a word" (except he didn't censor himself) intellectual genius stuff 6 years ago. I hope he's not that person anymore but given the bean dad thing, looks like he's still a "reason and LOGIC" guy.