Chris Evans comes to the defense of involved dads everywhere after Piers Morgan tweet
When the British TV host took aim at Daniel Craig, the former Captain America actor wasn't having it.
Provocateur Piers Morgan tried to open a new front in the culture wars, mocking none other than James Bond — actor Daniel Craig, that is — for carrying his new baby in a sling.
The social media skirmish had yet another actor, Sudbury’s own Chris Evans, jumping into the fray, turning Morgan’s derisive comments right back at him.
“Oh 007 …,’’ Morgan tweeted Monday alongside a picture of Craig wearing a sweatshirt and Liverpool Football cap, his three-week-old infant strapped to his chest. “[N]ot you as well?!!! #papoose #emasculatedBond’’
Well, Evans wasn’t having it. The film star — best known for multiple stints as Captain America, his love of tap dancing, and his witty social-media commentary — wasted no time clapping back.
“You really have to be so uncertain of your own masculinity to concern yourself with how another man carries his child,’’ Evans tweeted about Morgan, a TV host in Britain. “Any man who wastes time quantifying masculinity is terrified on the inside.’’ Boom.
Evans’s post seemed to resonate with readers, earning more than 80,000 retweets and nearly 450,000 likes in a matter of hours.
Meanwhile, dads around the world began posting pictures with their own babies strapped to their chests and speaking out in support of involved fatherhood.
None of the blowback deterred Morgan, who revels in picking Twitter battles with celebs, from doubling down on his unpopular opinion.
“The entire internet secretly agrees with me. FYI,’’ he wrote Tuesday afternoon.
He also insisted on repeatedly using the word “papoose,’’ once used to describe young Native Americans. The term is now seen as offensive.
