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My brother told me about this story he read in one of his email subscriptions, and then I went to Google it myself.
Back in November 2014 a couple's baby boy was sick, throwing up and having a high fever, until the boy's father Thomas decided what might is to cool him down. So he stripped down and stripped his little boy and they both sat in a cold shower together in an attempt to take the fever down. Although a noble effort, the boy was still very sick, getting worse, and having labored breathing, so they went to the hospital and found out their son had salmonella.
His wife Heather Whitten is a photographer and is the one who took the photo. She herself was moved by the beauty of it, of her husband caring so much like that. "I snapped a couple of pictures," she told TODAY Parents. "It was just beautiful. It was not surprising or anything out of the ordinary; it's how he has always been with the kids.... I document our family just how we are. I kind of see something and I just grab my camera."
She later posted the photo on Facebook which went viral, getting over 130,000 Likes and 30,000 re-shares. Many people were just as impacted by it, though others weren't, with some people criticizing it as perverted, and Facebook even deleted the photo twice before finally allowing it to stay. Though Heather decided to remove it herself once and for all later. "I wanted to take it down just because I thought it would get blown out of proportion. I thought the point was getting missed."
https://www.today.com/parents/photo-dad-comforting-his-son-shower-goes-viral-t92271
The couple has 4 kids, and her husband Thomas is in the Air Force, which may have been why he decided to try the shower with the boy if he was trained in survival.
People are so messed up...
Even I was touched by the photo when I saw it myself. I didn't see a single thing wrong or perverted about it. Such a situation with people's views tells us how we still are. No one would've thought it was predatory or perverse if the boy's mother was the one in the shower with the baby, and we know that. Or if it was some woman not even related to the baby. If a woman really was in the photo, it could've possibly turned out to be child pornography - that women commonly take payment to be in - yet none of us would ever suspect that or think it. But a guy has his clothes off with his own blood son in an effort to help him, and people think it's something sick.
These are the kind of things that make you feel like there's no hope for the world. Something great and beautiful is done, yet people twist it for evil in their minds. We complain and complain as a society about fathers this and fathers that, and talk about how maternal women are, yet this guy shows pure paternity and we still aren't happy.
All you can do is commend the good thing that was done, and shake your head at the world.
What Girls & Guys Said
49 53Smh. Some people are so evil that they project their evil onto others. Smh.
i see nothing wrong with what he did
fathers used to do that kinda thing all the time it was considered being a good father but for some reason its twisted into something horrible i mean im not even from that timeline but even i know its a good dad
It's a shame child abuse is so prolific causing people to be so fearful.
But if it was a woman in the photo people wouldn't be fearful.
But its not. And really its more likely to occur with women then men (look at student teacher sex scandals and nearly every one of them is a woman, 90% of all rape within juvenile detention centers are done by women) yet their is no public out cry when women pose naked with their children (and they are posing not trying to help a sick child). The fact is we as a society have an insanely negative view of men, one that was never really even earned (women are actually more likely to abuse children as well as be more likely to abuse their spouses according to CDC and the NCVS studies). Thats the issue, we are more readily willing to believe a man will do wrong then a woman (hence women getting far less sever sentencing for commiting the same crimes as a man). Their are multiple reasons for this, a large part are from current societal views with some biological inclinations (neotenous traits and such).
@hellionthesage And the Sage speaks truth again.
@hellionthesage Your so right
@LilWeezey Thank you, I kind of was prepared for a storm of completely different opinion but its nice to see some one agreeing. @ManOnFire Thank you. I always try to speak the truth, no matter how unpleasent, its the only way we can resolve our issues and make things better.
@hellionthesage I don't often do, but I agree with you. Society's view on men is skewed. One thing that doesn't help is that every time someone is caught in a public, kiddie porn scandal, it's always a man. Society's view of men was much better before the internet gave a way for those assholes to easily share their filth.
@JuicyBrain But that is largely the point tho. Men commit these types of crimes more often than women hence why it affects our view of men. It might not be fai cos most men don't do this but it is understandable.
Yes. We need more women to get caught sharing kiddie porn... So get to it women ! Lol
@JuicyBrain Well thats because no one actually looks into women doing wrong and when they do its overlooked they are given probation etc. So its under reported when women do it or brushed off as harmless because we are more willing to believe that men are terrible then we are that women can also be terrible. As for agreeing with me, it was bound to happen on something (laws of probability and all). @aliceinwonderland69 That is simply not true. We know its not true. www.slate.com/.../...et_of_juvenile_detention.html
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/svjfry12.pdf
If you look even the laws don't punish women who rape children, in fact they support them like the hermesmann vs seyer which states that a woman who rapes a boy is by law entitled to get child support from her rape victim. This case has been cited and applied to cases from the east coast to west coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermesmann_v._Seyer
The fact is, we just refuse to look at women as being just as capable of commiting wrongs as men. In fact statisticly speaking women are more likely to even abuse chidlren then men: www.breakingthescience.org/...fiedDataFromDHHS.php
Even feminist (who are notoriously pro women/anti men) have acknowledged this fact: everydayfeminism.com/.../
The problem isn't that men are abusers, its that we do not acknowledge women as abusers as being just as capable of abuse: https://time.com/2921491/hope-solo-women-violence/ and rape as males (statisticly the CDC has also proved this point (grudgingly): https://time.com/3393442/cdc-rape-numbers/ )
It is a problem when all known data shows that women are either as bad or worse then men YET public perception is that women do no wrong. This creates a skewed view that ensures that men will continously be viewed negativley and women viewed positively irregardless of circumstance simply because we do not see what women do as being nearly as bad, simply because of genetalia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_child_molesters
When you look at for instance, legal recourse for crimes one can very easily see that men are worse, that is until you dig further and see that women are given far more lenient sentences for commiting the same crimes as men. For example a 19 year old boy whent to prison for seven months and was forced to not use a computer for 20 years and sign as a sex offender because a sixteen year old girl lied about being 18 and he believing her had sex with her.
Meanwhile a 30 year old texas woman raped a ten year old boy (her student) and was forced to be supervised when she was doing a one on one with a student. Thats it. That was her punishment. The ten year old boy had to leave the school because, well for starters the teacher wasn't even fired (you absolutely can believe that if the genders where reversed the teacher would have been locked away (and probably beaten and raped while in prison too)) and he was teased and made fun of as if it was his fault, because every one liked her so the victim was then punished for coming forward. This is why we have the perceptions that we do, no one wishes to come forward because no one will actually view them as a victim when its a woman who commited the crime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikd0ZYQoDko
I don't see anything perverted about that at all, going into the shower was actually a good idea as it has been shown various times to be able to break a fever or at the very least help reduce it a little bit. But you do have to be careful about it.
Honestly the whole thing was just blown way out of proportion.
I think that's utterly ridiculous, he was taking care of his baby
Why was it posted on social media to begin with? It's all well and good to be a good father and help your kid. Turning it into a story for publication is another thing, and thus will receive all sorts of criticism... The good comes with the bad, it's all in being in the lime light. I don't think the man did anything wrong in all of this, but the wife wanted to share it with the world for attention, and that's were she got into trouble.
Wtf is wrong with the world.
Its cute when a brother and sister shower together when they are young.
But god forbid a father comforts his son.
Dont these people know skin to skin contact is the best way to heal someone of any age. I mean obviously you wouldn't naked hug a stranger. But if you think itll help your family. Particularly your child you do it.
This is far from perverted people need to mind their own goddamn buisness
Bro didn't you know? Men tending to children is because they're pedophiles, obviously.
That's right, if he wasn't obviously he would have been drinking beer and watching football and letting his wife attend to the sick kid.
You see your own faults in others. Its the perverts that call others perverted. Their twisted minds can't take things at face value. Reality has to go through the filter of ones prejudices before the mind can process it and by the that time the whole picture is distorted and warped. Closeted gay guys hate gays and call everybody else gay. Shallow people see shallowness everywhere. The list is endless but its a good rule of thumb. Anybody judges anybody else right away i find out something about the person judging
Damn, so true.
sjws and feminist are the scum of the earth.
Preach
I am neither a feminist or an SJW and I find this picture to be bizarre, inappropriate, and weird. Your answer is also extremely dramatic.
@CosmicallyCombined nah you're just gay.
No, sweetheart. Not everyone who disagrees with you and points out how dramatic your conclusions are is either "the scum of the earth" or "gay". Grow up, love. You're too old to be so immature.
@CosmicallyCombined nah you gay
That makes zero logical, intelligent, rational sense. Grow up.
@CosmicallyCombined you hella gay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAnRV2fWHiU
That's an awesome father.
This seems to be an issue in mostly first world countries, except for Japan I think.
For example, naked people bathing in a river in India ( rural areas ) is pretty normal.
People just like to assume the worst.
Because certain groups of people will have you believe that men are rapists and child molesters waiting to rape little children. Why do you think certain airlines have a policy that says that men are not allowed to sit next to children, even if they are his own, with out a woman present.
jezebel.com/.../should-airlines-be-allowed-to-forbid-men-from-sitting-next-to-unaccompanied-minors
Wtf... What the actual fuck?
@LilWeezey Hey it actually happens. What i mentioned up there is absolutely true. I dont see men that way, but some do.
I hate people
@LilWeezey me too!
I work with kids and I don't see that as okay. You can take a mili second and grab a towel to avoid psychological damage
Oh my God, if this was a mother in there you would not be saying that.
No both inappropriate period. I'm not leaning on this one my friend 🙂
Firm not okay
Well, I ain't budgin' either. I think the guy did the right thing to save his kid.
people who think its perverted have dirty minds themselves so they see that eveywhere
Its tragic that this was vilified the way it was but it never should've been put on the internet. We need to realize that society, as a whole, is full of idiots that will take the slightest thing, misconstrue it, and then blow it up to be something that its not. We need to be careful about the stuff we make public because of this rampant idiocy.
Yeah, true.
We had a sillier case in Denmark. It's absolutely repulsing how men have to be watched around children, no one cares if it's a woman who is naked with her son or daughter. Women abuse children too, and not every man is a pervert in disguise. There is nothing wrong with that picture and the world needs to realize that.
What? Are you serious? It is a man and his baby son taking a shower together. Is he doing anything inappropriate to the child? No? Then why is this a problem?
I swear people blow things out of proportions sometimes and it annoys me..
Why is there such a sickening stereotype that 'all men are predators' or 'all men are sex-crazed maniacs?' Seriously, this is getting out of hand...
Those stupid people must swallow a grenade and jump into the ocean.
Human beings are really stupid. Wow