The world, if you trust the gossip blogs, is all a-whirl with the question of who's the "baby daddy" of Anna Nicole's daughter. (Turns out, as was, I think, expected, it's Larry Birkhead. Wow, glad that's over.)
But I've gotta ask… what the hell is up with this "baby daddy" bullshit? (Freely acknowledging that I fell guilty of using this very phrase recently.) But isn't "baby daddy" just a bit redundant? Isn't whoever fathered the child, by definition, the baby's daddy? So why the need to specify that he's the baby daddy, and not simply the dad/father/sperm donor in question? Does it somehow make it cuter if he's the baby daddy?
Reminds me of the equally annoying and superfluous "warfighter" that's been making the rounds in recent years. I assume some moron in the Pentagon, either suffering from a lack of usable vocabulary tools, or from some prejudice against the obvious term "warrior" came up with the phrase "warfighter" to describe the modern soldier and now we're stuck with this annoyingly thick-witted construct.
Let's hope "baby daddy" fades once the announcement is made and they can go back to fighting over who's going to end up with whatever money Anna Nicole's estate is finally going to end up with.
But I've gotta ask… what the hell is up with this "baby daddy" bullshit? (Freely acknowledging that I fell guilty of using this very phrase recently.) But isn't "baby daddy" just a bit redundant? Isn't whoever fathered the child, by definition, the baby's daddy? So why the need to specify that he's the baby daddy, and not simply the dad/father/sperm donor in question? Does it somehow make it cuter if he's the baby daddy?
Reminds me of the equally annoying and superfluous "warfighter" that's been making the rounds in recent years. I assume some moron in the Pentagon, either suffering from a lack of usable vocabulary tools, or from some prejudice against the obvious term "warrior" came up with the phrase "warfighter" to describe the modern soldier and now we're stuck with this annoyingly thick-witted construct.
Let's hope "baby daddy" fades once the announcement is made and they can go back to fighting over who's going to end up with whatever money Anna Nicole's estate is finally going to end up with.
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