From a commenter: “This man is a creep. Period. His daughter is two and it is perverse that he is already sexualizing her… talking about branding his name into a chastity belt… really super creepy. Raise your kids to have self-respect and arm them with accurate information and trust them to make good choices. This is just a real lazy way to parent daughters. Lazy and creepy.”
“…..Okay, so in part, he’s joking and over-exaggerating. He asks that anyone who wants to date his daughter should, “Paint the house, mend some fence, cut the lawn, rope a tornado, bottle up a hurricane, and put out a forest fire w/ a squirt gun.” But the heart of his message is a very serious one, and it is, I believe, why the post has become so popular. At it’s core he’s talking about control: restricting whom his daughter can see based on fear that she’s going to get hurt or make a choice that he doesn’t agree with, a sentiment he wraps in the guise of fatherly love but which is actually disturbing and sexist. Take, for example, some of his other demands.
First, he says that any boy — and his list assumes that his daughter will want to date a boy when she begins dating, though at the age of 2, it’s far too early to tell her sexual preferences — will have to meet and get the blessing of all of his Navy SEAL teammates while they show him the armory. In other words, Luttrell literally has an army at the ready to defend his daughter!
Luttrell goes on to say that if the boy makes the cut, then he can talk to his daughter over the phone, provided Luttrell holds the phone. Micro-manage her much?” (babble.com)
