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Googling seems to suggest yes. For the sake of not leaving anyone out:
I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than having a daughter. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are feeding, clothing, raising and rearing a girl for at least 18 years solely so she can go and get ravaged by another man. All the hard work you put into your beautiful little girl - reading her stories at bedtime, making her go to sports practice, making sure she had a healthy diet, educating her, playing with her. All of it has one simple result: her body is more enjoyable for the men that will eventually fuck her in every hole.
Raised the perfect girl? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, a random man who had nothing to do with the way she grew up, who marries her. He gets to fuck her tight pussy every night. He gets the benefits of her kind and sweet personality that came from the way you raised her.
As a man who has a daughter, you are LITERALLY dedicating at least 20 years of your life simply to raise a girl for another man to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.
This is so silly. The thing that makes a cuck cucked is that the children he is supporting are not biologically his. But (absent certain modern reproductive technology that is in practice only used by the infertile) your daughter's children will always be your biological grandchildren.
If you think about the social scripts about how RealMenTM deal with their future sons-in-law, you talk to your daughters' dates while cleaning your guns in order to convince them that she isn't available for casual sex, but once it is clear that the young man is suitable and his intentions are honourable, you are on the same side.
The pop-cultural use of "cuck" seems to long have come detached from reproduction, to generally denote someone who would surrender what he cares for the most without a fight and perhaps derive masochistic pleasure from the process. (The accusation of being a "cuckservative" would not be dispelled by a credible claim that it helped the cuckservative get a liberal chick to bear his kids.)
The implication that the terminal value of incels with whom the copypasta resonates must be themselves getting laid, or at most getting laid vicariously through a hypothetical son who is just like them, rather than the preservation of their lineage, seems to check out against stereotypes too - at least to me the idea of a typical incel whose primary lament is that he will not be able to satisfy his parents' wish for a grandchild feels somewhat incongruous.
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I prefer the Peterson deepfake version.
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I mean, it's funny but it makes no sense; if you swap genders, you still don't actually benefit. And once I realize that, I remember that people just don't raise children for "the benefit." I mean, I guess your progeny can look after you in your old age, but a daughter can do that just as well as a son. I guess the joke is entirely the subtext that women are only valuable sexually.
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