Daddy and daughter date nights?

Quality time with daddy - great! Daddy daughter date night - just sounds so wrong!
It's lovely for father and daughter to have special bonding time together but the phrase is awful!!

Well the term play date is used quite widely and that isn't romantic.

Being called 'father daughter evening out' would not make the concept less creepy

Date just means doing a pre arranged even together one on one. Don't sexulise something lovely

I've only seen it in the States, and run by Conservative or Christian organisations for the most part. The idea is you take your daughter on a 'date' and show her how she should expect to be treated when she starts dating boys. It's super icky INHO, and all based around encouraging 'traditional values' and roles for girls ( and boys).
This is the kind of blurb you get:

'Here’s the point. The primary purpose of dating your daughter is making memories and cementing your lifetime connection. But there’s another huge benefit to showing up on time, opening her car door, treating her with respect, and handling any mishaps with grace and a smile…

You’re modeling for your daughter the way any boy should act when she goes out on any date at any time.

If and when some “unworthy weasel” takes her out, she won’t put up with any nonsense because her dad—that’s you—taught her how a gentleman acts on a date.'

Any self respecting dad should look at this absolute 'let's dress up and let daddy take his little princess out for dinner' crap and go an spend time with his kid at a baseball game or swimming, or down the library to pick more books, or doing whatever the girl is actually into rather than starting to get into a lather that one day some boy will 'steal' his daughter away,

Sounds creepy to me. Dad and daughter can go out together without pretending it's a 'date'

Absolutely. Sexualising parent/child relationships is fucking freaky.

Oh and very sad to see HomebrewDave popping up on yet another thread talking about the sexualisation of young women.

You sound like a healthy, well rounded individual, very respectful of women. Not!!!!

I make "a date" with friends, with cousin etc.. Any sexual undertone picked up in an innocent saying like that is in the mind of the criticizer surely?

So if you take your son to the park, you would say you were going on a date with him?

I went to the dentist this morning. Definitely didn't have a date with him!

Mind you, I can't even stand the use of 'date night' as a term for a married couple going out somewhere together. Just seems terribly contrived.

OVienna those photos! I want to bleach my eyeballs, just gross. How anyone can think this is innocent is beyond me. It's disgusting.

Revolting and pathetic and far too American for us over here hopefully !

Have a look at this, it went viral on Twitter and made me see red.

If Mum and Dad hasn't put the building blocks in place for a DD to know what is good about a relationship and what isn't good... it's far too late.

hellogiggles.com/news/jay-feely-prom-date-gun-photo/

I make "a date" with friends, with cousin etc.. Any sexual undertone picked up in an innocent saying like that is in the mind of the criticizer surely?

Boak indeed. Cast your eyes:

www.google.com/search?q=chastity+commitment+father&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=Ij37qtPYFnUdOM%253A%252CjyizXcSO75kWYM%252C_&usg=__R4dKeZ1vagKEUj-24AODtpD2Tg8%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjytuihvuTaAhXMA8AKHSDxCVkQ9QEIUjAD#imgrc=Ij37qtPYFnUdOM:

Apparently, sons also can be given chastity items by their parents:

www.josiahcreations.com/single-post/2015/05/14/MY-DAD-GAVE-ME-A-CHASTITY-RING-AND-I-THOUGHT-IT-WAS-WEIRD

It's almost so out there it's hard to believe it's true.

It's weird.

Trump would like it though; he said he'd like to date his daughter, didn't he?

The idea of a daddy/daughter date is seriously creepy. Do mummy/son dates exist? Yuck, yuck, yuck.

There are sexual overtones to the word date hence it seems icky.

No, Dave - the last thing I want is my children dying of a long, painful illness with no cure, or in a horrific accident.

Getting knocked up in a state school is nothing in comparison.

@WalkingOnAFlashlightBeam provides pretty interesting insight and basically says it much better than me which would be just “EURGH WEIRD”

I guess for for dads who don't live with their kids its nice... but yes no need to call it a 'date'.

I agree with what others say if it will only be used in context of Mother/Son and Father/Daughter and not for siblings of the opposite gender - then it ain't pretentious, or American, it's just plain creepy.

I think date is very very wrong for any parent and child. And I don't like the term play dates either.

A date is when two people meet to (potentially) have a relationship. Its not even been used historically for a group meeting of friends. Its (at best) pretentious.

It’s the ‘date’ part I find creepy.

All the purity stuff and concept of being owned then given away is revolting.

I use date to mean an appointment - not just a romantic meeting

But the fact that dads are clearly expected to spend so little quality time with their kids that they have to schedule dates is pretty disgusting

And that's before we get to the conservative Christian angle

It's disgusting.

What's reasonable about implied incest?

And as the US poster suggests, it's a grooming process for the interaction between the daughter and other men. Yuck, eew, yuck, no

My SiL is American and she uses "date" for all sort of prearranged meetings - dinner dates, dates with friends, playdates, a date with the dentist. Maybe it is more widely used over there so sounds wrong to us.

More wankery.