Twitter gives Piers Morgan a lesson on masculinity

British journalist and television personality Piers Morgan lit up social media Sunday when he tweeted a photo of James Bond star Daniel Craig wearing his infant daughter in a baby carrier.

Many of Morgan’s 6.5 million followers were less than impressed with the dadshaming stunt. The response was swift and severe: The Brit was widely criticized for his skewed image of manhood, in which he claimed that Craig’s choice of parenting gear was a sign of emasculation rather than practicality.

Some users responded by calling Morgan names — like “insecure manbaby” and “sexist jackwagon.” Others attempted a more rational approach by explaining the benefits of baby carriers, which allow parents to keep children close, yet have their hands unoccupied while strolling on the street.

Still others wrote that a father taking care of his child, even wearing a baby carrier, is attractive. A handful of men responded with photos of themselves wearing them.

Morgan, a father himself, did not stand down or waffle; he maintained that papooses are “ridiculous instruments of emasculation.”

Instead, he defended his honour on the social media platform, latching onto the steady stream of papooserelated content and goading President Donald Trump to share his thoughts on the baby carrier:

“Everyone else seems to be getting very worked up about them. I don’t really have you down as a papoose kinda guy, but then you’re full of surprises.”

Trump did not take the bait.

Calling the tweet-lashing a “ferocious Papoose-gate debate,” Morgan’s foregone conclusion was that there must be a change in James Bond casting. Clearly, he said, the world needs a “007 who looks sharp in a tux & wouldn’t be seen dead in a papoose.”