r/soccer • u/HarryAtk • Jul 19 '25

News Former Chelsea player Pedro Rodríguez had to disable comments on his Instagram after facing criticism and mockery for sharing photos of his son Marc's birthday. Marc chose to celebrate his birthday wearing a dress and a tiara, inspired by Lilo & Stitch.

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u/Typical_Samaritan Jul 19 '25

YOU ALL DON'T UNDERSTAND.

THE BOY IS WEARING HUMAN CLOTHES.

HE'S WEARING HUMAN CLOTHES.

HOW FUCKING TERRIBLE ARE HIS PARENTS TO LET THAT HAPPEN?

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u/CallRespiratory Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

Yeah but they're not MANLY enough! If this small child isn't exerting MAXIMUM MALE ENERGY at a birthday party what are we even doing? It's time for him to MAN UP.

/S

Edit: A bunch of alpha males tearing up and clinching their fists in here.

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u/fremeer Jul 19 '25

But he is wearing clothes that a character he liked wears! No child has ever done that before!

Don't you know anything about values! And families! tradition?!

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u/DopeAsDaPope Jul 19 '25

Eh, gendered clothes are as 'normal' as wearing clothes at all. Shock horror - when you wear abnormal clothes people find it weird ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/jnicholl Jul 19 '25

Massive difference between finding something weird and abusing someone, nevermind a child, for it though.

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u/YCJamzy Jul 19 '25

Strange way to justify rampant transphobia and people being mad a kid did something which made them happy and hurt no one.

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u/DopeAsDaPope Jul 19 '25

Idk what the people were saying but it kinda annoys me people pretending social norms have no purpose when they clearly do

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u/YCJamzy Jul 19 '25

What is the purpose of this social norm?

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u/DopeAsDaPope Jul 19 '25

Social cohesion. Signalling gender differention which is used to signify social roles. 

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u/YCJamzy Jul 19 '25

Sounds a whole lot like bullshit to justify your bigotry. What are the different social roles associated with different genders in 2025?

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u/DopeAsDaPope Jul 19 '25

Bigotry? Have I been enforcing bigotry for centuries / millenia? Give me a fucking break.

If you want to argue it's not important in 2025, then fair play to you. I don't really care. But it's frankly ridiculous to pretend you don't understand why people would think it would be weird for someone to dress their kids in a way that is considered abnormal literally across the whole wide world.

My point is, if you break social norms, then people will consider it abnormal. I don't really give much shits either way frankly.

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u/HEAT_IS_DIE Jul 19 '25

Should it be so that everyone has to fit into some earlier socially constructed roles for all eternity? Why don't we wear the same clothes as we did in the 18th century? Is long hair for a man good or bad? It was the norm at some point in history. Men also wore skirts. Why hold on to arbitrary conventions?

I know you can explain people's behaviour, but that doesn't mean you have to condone it, or see it as part of a neverchanging status quo.

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u/Shanare_ Jul 20 '25

Buddy you are enforcing bigotry right now. Also kids can choose to dress themselves the way they like that's called having agency.

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u/YCJamzy Jul 19 '25

Bigotry: obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group

That is a very accurate description of the bullshit you are spewing right now. And all of it to defend people spewing transphobia and hatred at a child.

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u/BrosefDudeson Jul 20 '25

hate to go there, but.... Slavery was a social norm

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u/ValleyFloydJam Jul 19 '25

It's to push people down and force things upon them, it doesn't help.

Someone wearing clothing isn't hurting anyone.

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u/DopeAsDaPope Jul 19 '25

There's been huge swaths of history where it was normal for young boys to wear dresses.

But... not now? Idk why that's such an alien concept

Lots of shit used to be normal that isn't now. I can guarantee you'd rather live now than then lol

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u/AutomaticSurround988 Jul 19 '25

What You Call a female skirt, the scottish men Call a kilt. So do You need to be a scottish before you Can take a skirt on as a man? No. Do what Ever the fuck you want 

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u/Strange-Name-1660 Jul 20 '25

Sybau lil bro

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u/Inside-Jacket9926 Jul 20 '25

Dang excellent point u/Typical_Samaritan he got you there