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# Piers Morgan Mocked Daniel Craig For the Way He Carries His Child and Dads Are Clapping Back

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## Melissa Locker


Oct 16, 2018 9:13 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Oct 16, 2018 9:13 PM UTC

Piers Morgan the British TV personality, saw a photo of Daniel Craig carrying his infant daughter—and decided to mock him. His tweet featured a photo of the [James Bond star](http://time.com/4525501/daniel-craig-james-bond-return/) carrying his baby in a baby carrier and included the hashtag #emasculatedBond and the word #papoose, a term appropriated to mean a child carrier.

> [](https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1051707168490221568)

Twitter immediately called him out on his feelings about masculinity. [Fathers](http://time.com/5312912/history-american-fathers/) across the world sent him photos of themselves carrying their children.

> [](https://twitter.com/Likosky/status/1051989018328612864)

> [](https://twitter.com/joapostrophed/status/1051861183945482240)

> [](https://twitter.com/kingsley%5Fa%5Frowe/status/1052193291876200448)


“There is nothing more masculine than a Father taking an active role in nurturing and looking after his child,” [another user wrote](https://twitter.com/saltiregizmo/status/1051896846145216512). “About time more in the media celebrated this, I mean aren’t you right-wing oddballs always bleating on about lack of family values?”

[Morgan](http://time.com/4644899/ewan-mcgregor-piers-morgan-donald-trump/) doubled down, though. In a series of [tweets](https://twitter.com/i/events/1051940343418040320), he claims that he no qualms taking care of children or even carrying them on occasion, he does have a [problem](https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1051925450958786561) with men wearing a baby carrier, despite the fact that they make holding a squirming infant slightly easier, make the infant more comfortable, make it much harder to accidentally drop a child, and letting the whole process last longer. He finds baby wearing to be women’s work, apparently.

Then, in a crossover event, _Captain America_ star Chris Evans leaped to Craig’s defense, noting that Morgan has to be “uncertain” of his own masculinity to concern himself with “how another man carries his child.”


> [](https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans/status/1052011353056178176)

Morgan scoffed [in response](https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1052047259733508097), “Captain America wouldn’t wear a papoose.” Morgan did find one exception to his baby-wearing rule, though, noting that UFC fighters could do whatever they wanted—however he made the exception solely on “self-preservation grounds”.

> [](https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1052127994179964928)

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