Piers Morgan has brewed up a roiling Twitter controversy by calling out Daniel Craig for wearing a device that most dads are probably familiar with: a baby carrier (or as Morgan calls it, a papoose).
In a tweet, Morgan shamed the James Bond star for putting one on, and suggested that doing so was emasculating:
Oh 007.. not you as well?!!! #papoose #emasculatedBond pic.twitter.com/cqWiCRCFt3
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 15, 2018
The BBC reports that Craig was carrying his baby daughter, who is just a few weeks old. Once the tweet went out, dads on both sides of the Atlantic quickly chimed in to voice their support for Craig and his child carrier of choice.
Morgan has been bombarded by men tweeting pictures of themselves carrying their own kids around and pushing back on his comments.
I carried my son on a hike. We seen a beautiful waterfall and experienced nature. I guess we should’ve stayed indoors instead you utter goon? pic.twitter.com/5Ht68nMYcR
— alan rodger (@alanrodger7) October 16, 2018
You really have to be so uncertain of your own masculinity to concern yourself with how another man carries his child. Any man who wastes time quantifying masculinity is terrified on the inside. https://t.co/9jsHZ3WKRn
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) October 16, 2018
#emasculatedUFCfighter en route to Thailand, did my whole fight camp with her in the #papoose…she finished camp unscathed!! 😂 @ufc pic.twitter.com/AmQaSSqF73
— Alex Volkanovski (@alexvolkanovski) October 16, 2018
A few hours after his first tweet, Morgan doubled down on the hot take by suggesting that he’d make a better bond than Craig:
One thing’s clear after tonight’s ferocious Papoose-gate debate: we need a new James Bond.
A 007 who looks sharp in a tux & wouldn’t be seen dead in a papoose…. pic.twitter.com/2u4jsATSfS— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 15, 2018
And that really set people off. Dads (and plenty of women, too) have been furiously tweeting to set him straight. Piers has since tried to clarify his viewpoint by arguing that he has no problem with dads holding their babies—it’s just the baby carrier he doesn’t like. Or maybe he just didn’t want to make The Rock angry:
The Rock’s using his arms, not a papoose. Clearly agrees with me. https://t.co/swCQQvpxYV
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 16, 2018
