As progress marches on in the real world, opening minds and setting spirits free, you can always count on the internet to bring out the absolute worst in people. But one dad just isn’t having it.
Reddit user sixstringhook’s son loves to watch he and his wife cook, so he did the “cool dad” thing for his son’s second birthday and built him the ultimate kitchen playset, complete with a refrigerator, taps and a LED-lit oven.
After sharing his unbelievably adorable handiwork online, the trolls came out from their dingy basement lairs to call his son a “faggot” over his interest in the culinary world.
Mind you, he’s two.
How about we take this to the next level?
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“You should rename your son Caitlyn,” wrote one commenter, while another proclaimed, “You are what is wrong with your country… I hope your kid gets beat up at school.”
Another idiot added, “Seems a little gay to me.”
But this was one case of internet bullying that Dad just wasn’t going to let go.
He responded:
“Well, going off of comments I have received both online, and in person regarding my wife and I’s decision to make our SON a kitchen playset and several ‘daughter’ comments and ‘but he is a boy’, let me be perfectly blunt.
Fuck you.
Anytime we go to our local science center, or to the children’s museum, [our son] always wants to play in the kitchen playset area. He always wants to watch us cook and likes being involved, so we thought this would be a good idea.
Furthermore, if my kid wanted a Barbie doll I would get it for him. If that is what he wants, then that is what he wants.
It’s his decision what he wants to play with. Not mine.”
The kitchen’s first dish is a hearty taste of reality.
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h/t: Attitude
Lael Galaviz
Wow that’s a lot of closed minded people who called gay to a boy that wants to cook or wants a kitchen. I wonder what are they going to say to all the great Male chefs all over the world. Stupid people.
Phil Jessett
And just how do the trolls think that most of the Great chefs got their start??
Al Chiasson
Good for you Dad.
Timothy Grover
I wish I had that growing up! Sometimes I was envious of my sister’s Easy Bake Oven!
Michael Clark
A child who likes to play in the kitchen……he has to be gay….wtf!? Most chefs are male. Most of the line cooks in restaurants are male. The entire culinary industry is dominated by males, Even if they were not who cares? Growing up I played with GI Joes, and built forts in my backyard, and zero interest in playing with my sisters toys…..I still turned out gay.
Glücklich
What a bunch of dumb fucking assholes.
1. Seemingly most of the world’s best-known chefs – and I’m not talking about the silly stuff shown on Food channel or GMA’s cooking segments – are guys and probably most of *them* are straight. Does Gordon Ramsey strike anyone as being a pussy?
2. Cooking is chemistry – not unlike like the meth labs with which some of these mouthbreathers are familiar. Would they consider a kid playing mad scientist a faggot?
3. Know what a lot of *women* consider a panty-dropper? Guys who like to cook and who do it well.
4. WHO FUCKING CARES? “You’re what’s wrong with this country”? I don’t even know where to begin. That poster needs to get off the library computer he’s using, go out and finish his GED, get a fucking job and start paying the child support he undoubtedly owes to three different women. Smart money says the first kid was born while he still a teenager; showin’ the world what a “man” he was at 16 by knocking up some poor stupid cousin while high from huffing paint fumes. *YOU’RE* WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS FUCKING COUNTRY YOU FESTERING BUTT PIMPLE!
Giancarlo85
You can’t fix right wing idiots. Right wing idiots will always be this way. Even some gay men insult other gay men for being out. Even on this site. It wouldn’t surprise me if one of those comments was left by someone from this site.
What’s wrong with this country? These right wingers even existing spewing their endless bigotry.
Rimmington
The dad should with Father of thr Year!
Rimmington
The dad should win Father of the Year!
SeeingAll
@Giancarlo85: African-Americans are hardly Right Wing, generally-speaking.
Sandy McLendon
This, folks, is PARENTING.
Giancarlo85
@SeeingAll: How do you know what race they are? Idiot.
Jane Elliott
brilliant kitchen for his son amazing parents for letting their child grow without the prejudices forced on some by narrow minded people, you rock as parents and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. check out Cake Boss his cakes are amazing
dvlaries
It could be more than an interest in cooking, which is fine itself, but it could also be a fascination with the machinery of cooking, and maybe the boy is a budding inventor as well, who might one day make kitchen work a lot easier for women and men alike. Bravo.
Ken Painter
These Internet bullies are what’s wrong with America (among other things). Bravo Dad!!
whatsaywhat
Serving up C*NT !! Thank u Daddy!
Billy Budd
The poor kid is probably going to turn out completely STRAIGHT. People are crazy when it comes to kids’ prefferences. Such a lot of nonsense.
Bobby Lusby
He could grow up to be a master chef!!! Also, a play kitchen isn’t going to “make” him gay. He either is or he isn’t…
Johnny Mulkerrin
The next Gordan Ramsey…most chefs are men.
Michael Mikolasek
Great Dad
AtticusBennett
you know what this kid is NOT going to grow up to be? a closeted miserable self-hating anonymous internet troll 🙂
Robert Zakem
Way to go dad!!!!
inbama
In these days when parental love is being equated by reinforcing your child’s gender confusion and finding them a quack who will administer puberty-blocking drugs, it’s good to be reminded that being born male or female should not dictate what you may or may not study, purse or enjoy, how you must behave and speak, and whether your friends and lovers are of your own sex or the opposite.
This is a good father.
Michael Woods
I hope that kid becomes a world famous chef and remembers the a-holes name and calls him out on this crap
gskorich
are these internet trolls saying this child has chosen to be gay? just because he likes to cook? hmmm, these people better check their dial up connections and see if the are getting the whole story
Alan David
Great dad
Scott Haltom
Perhaps the dolls girls grow up with help them socially whereas the “action figures” boys have don’t. They promote agression and hate as a way of resolving differences.
DDstar1me
Once again. When you post personal stuff online you open yourself up to public opinion.
The world we live in isn’t kind. You can’t be naïve about this stuff. people ain’t shit. The trolls that post comments like that want a rise from you. They want you to feed into the hate. That’s how online trolls thrive. This just pisses me off to no end. What kind of sick people make comments like this about an innocent child.
Jerry Green
How could anyone be so cruel? I guess it must be asshole rednecks who can’t even boil water!
Garth
Yes Gordon Ramsey said his son cooks like an angel which is in no way a gay comment but a statement of fact .Gordon’s son would only be following in his father’s footsteps if he also became a chef. Like this father’s son who may also be showing the signs of a budding chef. All the best to this loving family and fuck the narrow minded people who would hold the progress of the world back so their slow minds could keep up.
woodroad34
The father should have noted to the slug-like minds of those commenters that most of the food they eat at restaurants is cooked by men. They might want to double check their food next time they’re out to make sure some kind of revenge isn’t in the offing.
The Tower of Power
@AtticusBennett: I love trolling, but I think it’s fun to troll Christians and Muslims because they tend to be intolerant of criticism of their religions.
MrMouth1117
My cousin married a staunch German (we are Italian) who made the announcement that we were never to buy their new born son anything pink, no Fisher Price Toys, no Action Figures, no kitchen toys nor fruits and vegetables. He said I do not want my kid growing up GAY! When his son grew up he entered the NAVY and he is now out to the whole family! My cousin got blamed! This is bullshit! I an a retired teacher and educationally this is wrong. On a brighter note just how many men throughout the world are chefs? Hey Bradley Cooper is now starring as a chef in his new movie: BURNT!
Joe
People are just plain out of touch with reality. You watch, this boy end up owning his own restaurant some day. Closed minds = uneducated minds.
TampaBayTed
@Glücklich: Couldn’t have said it better myself. Bravo!
Texan78730
Good for you, dad! Your son is a lucky guy. Would you allow me to correct a tiny syntax error: It isn’t “….regarding my wife and I’s decision….”; It’s “….regarding my wife’s and my decision…”
tampaed
Hope this great kid grows up to be a world famous chef and tells all Haters to GO fuck yourselves. damn Its a real shame when adults are so Bitter and hateful they attack children just because they can. I’d bet you these same people also call themselves Christian…
Avery Alvarez
The dad is great and a good role model. He’s teaching his kid not to be a sissy, whimpy, loser who loses his shit over comments on the internet. He’s teaching his kid how to handle things like a real man.
Lee Swinney
good for him
Tommysole
My dad was always like, “stop doing that Fag stuff!!! Your mother is supposed to cook, get her to make you something to eat! IF I catch you doing that Fag stuff at the stove, I’ll beat it out of you!”
Well Dad…………..I am an excellent cook, A really good Fag, and unlike my older brother, I have never done time in prison, I can hold a job, I live alone and, I am not a drug addicted drunk.
MY brother is not a fag though!!!!!
JimStraw
What a great Dad. Hell, mine wouldn’t go to my second grade talent show because I was singing a duet with my sister. We sang “Gary, Indiana” from “The Music Man”. He said that boys shouldn’t be singing. It wasn’t masculine. We won btw.
bluecheck
Love the article. However, author of the article – would you please check some basic English grammar rules. E.g., “Reddit user sixstringhook’s son loves to watch he and his wife cook,..” It should be “loves to watch him and his wife cook,.” When in doubt, leave of the other part of the phrase, e.g., “loves to watch he cook” or “loves to watch him cook”, etc.
Eric Grich
Rock on DAD!!!
Terry
I know someone whose big, macho, Marine father, 40 YEARS AGO, got him some sort of girly doll. Now THAT is love.
Glücklich
@Texan78730:
That bugged me, too.
Sandym70
What a great father and a wonderful example of good parenting. That dad is enriching his son’s imagination, and who knows what that little boy will grow up to be? To bad the internet trolls won’t just grow up themselves?
Cam
Even if every single Chef in the world was a woman, and this little boy wanted a kitchen play set so what?
And that doesn’t even deal with the reality that the majority of chefs are men, so not sure what planet these people are living on.
One thing the internet is good for, it gets harder and harder for idiots in the media or on the judicial bench to claim that bigotry is a thing of the past when people keep exposing their bigotry so often on it.
Glücklich
I have a childhood memory of being someplace with a variety of Tonka toys and the like, stuffed animals, and a doll’s house. I went for the doll’s house, not because I enjoyed playing with dolls but because I wanted to tidy the house up. It was a mess. Furniture in the bathtub, on the roof. Just trashed. To this day, I still like an *immaculate* house run like clockwork, everything kept spotless, neat and orderly.
chuck
Lucky kid, my own father called me “Betty Crocker” when I was making a pie with cherries from our tree. My mother later chopped the tree down. I wish I could have been kidnapped.
Dennis Patrick Ellis
ignorant AMERICAN -humans are de evolving .
Glücklich
@Tommysole:
High five!
Glücklich
@woodroad34:
These folks don’t go out to eat. They order their “ol’ lady” to “rustle up a mess a’roadkilt” and she hops to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFY-qfBxqng
nemesis9
Destroys? That’s pretty hyperbolic. Also,”my wife and I’s?” Yikes.
Giancarlo85
Glad to see we got the typical grammar right wing shills with their agendas on here… don’t quit your dayjobs.
And yes, he did destroy these idiots.
As others have said, many of the most famous chefs are men. It’s a male dominated field.
Terry Barton
The comments came from rightwinger Christians no doubt.Thats how they kinda roll.
Sven Êrik's Sön
Is cooking at all tied femininity? Seems like this is multifaceted bigotry.
surreal33
I love it!
silveroracle
Learning to cook is one of life’s must haves.
Wish I had when I was young.
Look at all the master chefs making it big.
twospirit
I applaud the dad…We need MORE DADS like this in our society…What is “wrong” in this country is trying to dictate what our children “should” be interested in, to appease parents’ apparent insecurities…
Alan David Smith
dear dad. just thought you would like to know. i hate cooking. and i am gay. he has the same chance. to be straight. thanks for encouragement. oh saw that kitchen set. might be time for you to invest in your own business it was cool.
Sluggo2007
I assume these trolls were posting their hateful comments from the church basement.
SeeingAll
@Sluggo2007: The mosque. Basement or otherwise.
GayEGO
Congratulations to these parents who are intelligent and are thinking and living in this century. With all of the different stars, planets, moons, etc. why is it so difficult for these bigot bullies to understand that people are unique and have their own characteristics. Back in the dark ages when people knew little about the world we live in and who we are, they wrote their guessed speculations in religious documents as they did not know the facts.
Again, kudos to this dad and his family!
mezzacanadese
When this boy grows up and becomes a famous chef and is making a lot of money, he can drive by these trolls in his Mercedes and laugh.
Ralph Vendegna
To the Idiots who give this Dad a hard time of Discrimination, There is nothing wrong with his son playing with a toy kitchen. He is interested in being a chef so what. I played with my sisters kitchen toy when I was growing up and I was also playing kitchen in kindergarten. You want to be bigots do it to YOURSELF, not someone’s child. This is a dad who supports his son and NOT a damn thing wrong with it.
dennis
@SeeingAll: “The mosque. Basement or otherwise.”
Given that Muslims comprise 1% of our population (Of converts, 60% are Black, 34% are white, 6% are hispanic, and they comprise a quarter of the Muslim population) your screed is not likely to have any truth to it.
It is a better bet the trolls are white heterosexuals who define as Christian and share your political affiliation.
Once again, you need a stronger tie to reality!
erasure25
And one day, those nasty uneducated commenters will be bussing tables for minimum wage at that kid’s restaurant….
greybat
@Phil Jessett: Trolls don’t think.
Dakotahgeo
Good goin’, butt-insky conservative christian mongoloids! (No disrespect to legitimate mongoloid persons!)