To think this Father's Day mug is creepy?

[SalemSaberhagen]

Just seen this advertised on Facebook. Does it make anybody else feel uncomfortable? I just hate the weird 'always daddy's little girl' thing.

[pinkyredrose]

I'd say it's cringy rather than creepy.

[shiveringhiccup]

Yanbu

[bushtailadventures]

YANBU, stuff like that makes me feel yucky. I'm all for telling family you love them, but can't we do it without resorting to cheesy crap like that?

[FrancesNiadova]

Ewww, no, not my cup of tea.

[WorraLiberty]

It's vomit inducingly twee

But how are you getting 'creepy'?

[FirstWeTakeManhattan]

No, not creepy. I equally don't like slapping a bit of a sinister connotation on something just because it's cheesy and crap.

I hear parents say that 'they'll always be your little girl/boy' talking about grown up kids. It's naff, cheesy, but meant with love.

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

I think my Dad would freak if I gave him that. He'd start asking me if I was trying to get money out of him! It's a bit saccharine, isn't it? By that I mean vomit inducing.
I don't think it's quite up there in the "creepy" category, perhaps if there was an option to photoshop a picture of your own face onto a toddler for the other side? That'd be creepy.

[JeanGenie23]

I agree with Manhatten it's not at all creepy, it's a sentiment I'm sure a lot of young girls would share with their dads, and I think it's edging on wrong to turn something quite loving into something sinister.

[MilkTwoSugarsThanks]

Yeah - my dad would wonder what I wanted. It kind goes like this...

Me: Daddeeee....
Dad: Oh god, what do you want?

My mum responds to "Mommeeee" in exactly the same way.

I need to change tactics I think.

[SalemSaberhagen]

Creepy may have been the wrong word in hindsight. But odd, saying that I may love a man but I will always be your little girl.

[BillBrysonsBeard]

My dad said that to me once before he died and he meant it with love, but it's very twee and cheesey on a mug! Like most mug sentiments are. Don't think it's creepy though..

[velourvoyageur]

Think Irigaray would have a ball with this

[Scaredycat3000]

I think it's creepy. I find it creepy when a parent/parents have the mindset that their child should always love them more than anyone else in their life ever. You end up with the Mother of the groom wearing black and crying at their sons wedding, I don't know what the father equivalent is. It's not healthy. You will always have a special bond with your parents, good or bad, but encouraging life long dependency, (I will always be your little girl, wtf) is not the sign of love.
Yes I know it's a just mug, but it is reinforcing gently the above.

[TheNaze73]

Just crap, not creepy

[Branleuse]

eeeeew, can you imagine if it was a boy sending the equivalent to his mother

[Oysterbabe]

It's not creepy is just cringy.

[TheSecondOfHerName]

A husband-wife relationship is not comparable to a father-daughter relationship. One is romantic/sexual and the other shouldn't be. The text on the mug makes some people uncomfortable because it makes a comparison between these two relationships.

[MakingJudySmile]

Eurgh!!

My mother refers to my as 'her baby' and 'lovely little girl'. Makes me feel a surge of irritation and want to tell her to fuck off.

That mug is creepy because the love between partners involes sexual attection. Parent-child love shouldn't but that mug is comparing the two causing the idea they are the same type of love. Grim.

[MakingJudySmile]

Cross post with TheSecond

[wallybantersjunkbox]

It was so uncomfortable reading that.

YANBU

[UnderTheGreenwoodTree]

I find it creepy. yanbu.

[barkinginessex]

Urgh that is creepy! Agree with PP who said its comparing a romantic and sexual relationship with between husband and wife to a father / daughter relationship when they are nothing alike!

[cdtaylornats]

To summarise the bit about her father "you'll always be an open wallet to me"

[dailyfailrag]

Cringe. I'm in my 30s. I'm not daddy's little girl anymore. I'm a grown woman. My dad would probably just laugh if I gave him that.

Last fathers day I was looking at the gifts on Moonpig and under the 'fathers day hampers' category they had a 50 shades of grey themed box. I know it was a mistake but it made me laugh.

[SalemSaberhagen]

That's it thesecond and judy! I just couldn't word it right.