READ MORE: Mum shamed for leaving kids with husband for 'girls trip' – but hits back On the table in front of the pair is a t-shirt with the words ‘no boyfriend until 2041’ written on it in capital letters.While the little tyke only doodles on the paper, Manel captions the clip: “Contract signed, here we go confirmed.”According to the Independent, it isn’t clear whether the little girl is any relation to Manel or not.Regardless he has faced a fierce backlash following the clip, with the top complaint pointing out that this would never happen to a little boy.“I’ve never seen a man do this with his son, or put restrictions on what age their sons can start dating,” one person commented.For more lifestyle stories, sign up to the free Hot Topics newsletter here Another said: “I know it’s a joke but no one would make his son sign a contract [that says] ‘no girlfriends until 2041’ and that kinda [sic] p***es me off.”Gender equality activist Gina Martin called out the post for perpetuating a trope that sees fathers not allowing their daughters to date.In an Instagram post, she said she was “so tired of seeing the sheer amount of this kind of stuff on TikTok”.Gina said: “This kind of restriction of a child’s (projected) choices because of their gender doesn’t look like ‘protection’ to me, it looks like patriarchy.“And the ‘no boys allowed’, ‘stay away from boys’, ‘no boyfriends’ trope reveals you know what misogyny is and choose Man Points over actually equipping your daughter for it or meaningfully engaging with the problem, because a father that was doing that would never make this ‘joke’.“Little girls are not weak saps that need protecting by fathers who want to appear a hero by restricting them,” she explained.
