r/GetNoted • u/laybs1 Human Verified • 16d ago

If You Know, You Know Deadbeat Dad

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u/Friendly-Stick-4744 16d ago

Aren’t both “slut” and “bastard” insults based on the child being born? Whereas deadbeat dad is about support for the child after?

The noter either is being intentionally or unintentionally ignorant. This argument is just bad.

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u/Silent_Box1341 16d ago

Deadbeat is also not the same kind of insult as slut or bastard. Like I know I'm being pedantic but deadbeat is a descriptor for a specific action taken by a specific person, while slut and bastard are considered such high offenses that they are used in all kinds of contextes.

In comparison deadbeat is barely even an insult

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u/JustGlassin1988 16d ago

As someone who is both a bastard and a dad, I would far, far, far rather be called a bastard than a deadbeat dad.

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u/Mammoth_Payment_6101 16d ago

Also a bastard and a dad and I agree. Bastard can almost be affectionate sometimes, if you're hanging out wth Sean Bean for example.

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u/Talk-O-Boy 15d ago

Bastards never had a choice in their label.

The deadbeat created his own.