A father has revealed how he’s teaching his young daughters to accept nothing but the best in a future partner, by setting an example of how they should be treated.
Eric Taylor, from Utah, creates humorous clips of the level of love and luxury he’s normalizing for his little girls, believed to be aged four and six.
The influencer has more than 229,000 followers on Instagram (@girldad_e), where he creates reels showing how he’s preparing his children to have high standards.
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His efforts include teaching them essential life skills – such as changing a tire and properly seasoning their food – to more emotive endeavors like ‘making the mundane magical’ and telling them that ‘they’ve got a lot more than just beauty’, so that they expect future partners to do the same.
‘Attending tea parties with my daughter so your dusty son don’t try to impress her with Golden Corral,’ he said in a recent post, which has racked up 1.8 million likes.
A ‘dusty son’ is understood to refer to boys who are lazy and wouldn’t go out of their way to woo or impress a partner, be it by never helping out with chores or making no effort with romantic gestures.
One Urban Dictionary definition also describes a ‘dusty’ person as ‘a broke “player,” typically a male, who has nothing to offer but sex. Usually a user.’
Eric’s videos show him happily interacting with his adorable daughters before he looks into the camera and gives it a deadly theatrical stare, in warning to any future prospective in-laws.
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While many commenters are delighted by the trend, some parents appeared insulted by the notion that their children wouldn’t measure up.
Some parents didn’t hold back
‘My boy 16… I’m worried about the dusty spoiled little girls these days who haven’t been taught what a partnership is,’ one said.
‘They trying to make young gentlemen break their backs for them while they out there going to Golden Corral with half wits while he’s at his job. I’d like to address the problem of entitlement. Don’t the boys deserve good women too?’
‘I think this is great. But don’t call my sons “dusty”. They are far from it,’ a second said.
‘And I will most certainly be teaching them to choose their wives wisely because not all women are “prizes”.
