Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song are officially parents, announcing the birth of their son Dakota on Monday. But Culkin’s been talking about having kids with Song since 2018 — and those resurfaced comments have not aged well.
Although, to be fair, they weren’t really great to begin with. In an interview with People in August 2018, Culkin was extremely open about his desire to have kids with Song, even going so far as to say: “This one’s a good one, so I’m probably going to put some babies in her in a little bit,” Culkin said at the time. “I mean, we’ve definitely been practicing.”
Then, Culkin noted how excited he was about what the race of their future children would be. “I’m going to have some pretty babies. She’s Asian, so I’m gonna have tiny little Asian babies. It’s going to be adorable — a bunch of Sean Lennon’s running around the house, that’s what I’m looking for,” he said, referring to the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Following the announcement that Culkin and Song had indeed given birth to a son — a pregnancy that was kept fairly well under wraps — the comments resurfaced on Twitter, drawing harsh criticisms. “Congrats I guess,” said Jeff Yang.
Congrats I guess pic.twitter.com/AsHEqZdwFz
— Jeff Yang 🫶 FOLLOW ME @ORIGINALSPIN ON THREADS/IG (@originalspin) April 12, 2021
Among the replies to Yangs tweet, many a cringe gif.
https://t.co/kUMw0Gvspm pic.twitter.com/Ta97nTUyW1
— Greg 👻 (@waltisfrozen) April 12, 2021
ick pic.twitter.com/SFTSCivFRe
— Misa Sugiura MOMO ARASHIMA is here! (@MisaSugiura) April 12, 2021
I can’t cringe hard enough. pic.twitter.com/6eOvrAiARY
— Jules Effin Rivera (@julesrivera) April 12, 2021
https://twitter.com/gabbehhhh/status/1381714256505274368?s=20
Others called out the problem in Culkin’s comments more directly, criticizing the actor for fetishizing Asian women and implying that all Asian children look the same. “Tell me you fetishize Asian women without telling me you fetishize Asian women,” one woman tweeted.
https://twitter.com/coycolleen/status/1381707658718236673?s=20
Why would have children with a man who has weird racial fetishes? https://t.co/XYARl6vgSs pic.twitter.com/qgtFdEAKfv
— Saarah⁷ 🍉 (@AlphabetBoysGF) April 12, 2021
https://twitter.com/MelsLien/status/1381704922895355915?s=20
https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1381717509573734402?s=20