I had failed society once again. Perhaps I had been too sloppy. Too careless. Perhaps it was from the times when I brought him into the men’s restroom instead of the unisex room. Perhaps it was when I would take more groceries than Gwen when we were carrying them inside. Perhaps I didn’t wear dresses and skirts in the house enough times. Either way, it was clear that I had created, not a gender-fluid feminist, but a son.
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Both Gwen and I are ashamed, but working to accept our son’s choices. We hold out hope, as Sally Kohn does, that our child will at least be gay. Perhaps during his adolescent years he will discover Tumblr, and that community will get the message across better than we. Every parent has high hopes for xer children, even in the face of severe disappointment and failure.
The Internet home for American gay conservatives.
they fail to notice that the more ridiculous a parent’s “high hope” the more likely their child is to not only reject the hopes, but even the parents.
Children will ALWAYS disappoint their parents. They will never do exactly what the parents want.
Eventually, if the parent truly loves the child, they will realize that if they HAD done exactly what the parents wanted, it would be very difficult to really love them. Look at what they actually have accomplished, and love that.
I write fiction, and most of my characters just come out gay (there’s no planning or intent, they just are). Except for my main character in my multi-book epic… somehow he turned out straight as a stick. Where did I go wrong?? 😀
#1, they fail to notice nothing because the article is deliberate satire.
How do gay, lesbian, and bi conservative types deal with their sexuality, especially when they find the mainstream gay lifestyle, which is largely inhabited by the gay left unappealing and even repulsive?
Conservatives tend to be strong, self-reliant, independent types who don’t seek or need approval from a peer group to validate our self-esteem; we’ll leave that to liberal pussies.
Satire yes, but it reminds me of the column by David Sirota in which he admitted, in all seriousness, losing sleep at night worrying that his toddler won’t grow up to be vegan like his dad.
Hmm, is this a new James, or our resident self admitted paedophile under a new name?
This is NOT funny to me or my family. My step-brother (who is not nearly the cuck-sub portrayed in the article) is raising their “son” in nearly exactly the environment and lessons described in the article… including asking every morning, “So do you feel more like a boy or a girl today? Perhaps something else?” Mom is a self identified gender queer who is dead set in inculcating a severe case of gender dysphoria ins this kid. The means mixed-gender clothes, toys and language. EVERYTHING is anti-cis, anti-hetero-normative, anti-binary. They waited until he was 3 for his/her first haircut because they wanted to wait until he/she announced what gender — if any — he/she wanted to be. I’m not making this up. The family is flabbergasted watching this all play out on Facebook. In any sane world it would be seen as the sexual abuse that it is. So about 80% of what you see in this “satire” is really going on in some “progressive” families.
@8, No Livewire, I am not James Edward
apologies James, I misread your post.
“‘This is NOT funny to me or my family.” No, it’s not funny. These people used to be called ”crackpots” or more politely eccentrics. Now they are being taken seriously and are playing with the formative years of their children just to make themselves feel like good ”enlightened liberals. The only consolation is that their numbers are small. I feel so bad for those children. Growing up is already confusing and difficult for kids–now to be forced to choose what gender they want to be at three years old is just cruel.
@Bill (comment 12)… The hard part is that now his “gender reveal” is male, the “queer mom” (her description of herself) is hitting up all her queer identified friends and even some queer-friendly professionals on how to keep his cisgender behavior in check. Basically, he’s a *boy* and she’s bent on doing what she can to minimize the cis-whatever and destroy anything binary. She’s conducting this whole thing right out in the open on Facebook where other progtard queer-friendly anti-binary moonbat moms are likewise expressing shock and dismay that their little boys and girls are exhibiting cis traits of, well, little boys and girls. It’s nauseating to watch, it really is. We secretly hope he grows up to hate the moonbat for what she’s trying to do to him. Next up is medication to treat his masculinity, mark my words.
Phil: I’ll bet that when these children grow up and get past these insane child-rearing ”experiments” of the early 21st century, they will despise their parents, who will have by then gone on to some other trendy and equally wacky hobby. And yes, I have a feeling big doses of Ritalin (sp?) are in store for this perfectly normal and healthy kid. Boys and girls are beautiful just as they are–let them be and let them play and grow up in nourishing, political-agenda-free households.
There is very little true scientific evidence that the social construct theory of gender is more than just that: a theory.