I believe in father-son affection. I have a son. Heβs 3 months old, and I am dreading the day that he finds my kissing his cheek uncool. I also believe that because America doesnβt love black boys, itβs my job as his dad to make sure that he knows at all times that he is loved. So I kiss on his little face and hands because he is my boy. I donβt kiss him on the mouth.
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I still kiss my dad on his cheek. He also kisses me on mine. Heβs getting old now, so who knows how long heβll be here. We say βI love youβ now. Itβs new for us. But no matter what weβve gone through, we have always hugged and kissed each other on the cheek.
The cheek.
I donβt, however, kiss my dad on the mouth. I also donβt kiss my dad on the mouth for a long time, like a hard three-count kiss time.
New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady, he of the sculpted chin divot and model wife, is starring alongside his family in a Facebook docuseries, and the latest episode shows Brady getting a rubdown when his son walks into the room and gives him a kiss on the lips.
Brady jokes that the kiss was like a peck, and then his son returns to really plant one on him .... on his lips! Son.
Look, I donβt care if a son kisses his dad on the lips, but I do care if said son stays there for a count longer than three seconds, because itβs weird. Also, I donβt make the weird rules, I just adhere to them. Itβs weird, like the-video-of-the-rat-bathing-himself-like-a-fucking-human weird. And it isnβt white-people weirdβwell, kind of, but I know black people who donβt mind this kind of familial affection.
Hell, Babyβs fake son, Lil Wayne, used to kiss his fake father on the lips, and people didnβt find that weird. Psych, who am I kidding? Everyone found that weird, and if they didnβt, I donβt know why they didnβt. Look, watch it happen below, and tell me if Iβm tripping in the comments. I know that Iβm not, but tell me if I am. I canβt be tripping. This is weird, right?!
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