‘Bean Dad’ criticized after sharing viral story about daughter struggling to use can opener

Over the weekend, Twitter invaded mentions of a person nicknamed “Bean Dad” (previously named John Roderick, who was not from Twitter) for his refusal to open a can for his son.

A sentence like that probably doesn’t need additional context, but we’ll try.

On Saturday, Roderick shared a thread (too long) that told the story of how he advised his hungry nine-year-old daughter to eat baked beans, the favorite food of children around the world:

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Simply put, I didn’t know how to use a can opener.

At some point he stopped smoking, and then at another time he did it again.

At some point * six hours later * it all came together:

According to Roderick, he eventually came up with the idea of ​​using a hammer to open the can.

Again, the process reportedly took six hours.

YouTube next time:

The thread lasted for more than 20 tweets and included lines like “I told you stories about some of the great cans that I had opened over the years.

She rolled her eyes. We talk about industrial design and how fun the opener is, “and

“She looked at me expectantly, excited. After six hours of trying, you don’t want to express too much hope. Was it another dead end?

“The can had been through hell, label ripped off, dented, sharpened and lowered, a veteran of a thousand psychic wars. Although she knew. “

Hopefully this serves as sufficient evidence why no more tweets are being inserted. You can read it all here, including your responses to very angry criticisms, before you wonder why you are doing that.

Some may find this thread to be the story of a man trying too hard to sound deep, while others (me) might have fallen asleep midway through.

Still, Twitter, where colder heads always prevail, and hysteria is yelled at by the reasonable, was of the opinion that this was s ….. or good parenting.

Come to your own conclusion, but thus the nickname “Bean Dad” was born.

Here’s a sample of the reaction, followed by Bean Dad’s reaction to the reaction below it. As is often the case with micro-controversies, the real winners here seem to be those who stayed away:

In addition to tweets @ ‘ing or quote Bean Dad, there were more general jokes that took advantage of a new addition to the culture war lexicon. Only time will tell if this lasts, but hopefully not:

After the Twitter rage caught Roderick’s attention, he responded by saying the firestorm was overdone.

That’s just the most basic way to put it, but here he is reflecting on it in his own words: