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Can There Really Be Two Moms? (NYT alert)
New York Times ^ | October 25, 2018 | Stephanie Fairyington

Posted on 10/27/2018 6:11:26 PM PDT by reaganaut1

“No, Mama Steph, go away. I want Mama Sabby to read to me!” These words from my 3-year-old daughter, Marty, level me like the most withering insult. Lately, her extreme favoritism for my spouse, Sabrina, has reached new heights. She even gets mad if I peck Sabrina on the cheek or place my arm around her seat as she drives.

I distinctly remember rebuffing my dad’s affections and interfering with his attempts to kiss or hug my mom when I was a kid. It makes me wonder: Am I the dad in this family? At one time, I might have delighted in the queerness of being daddyfied, but I never wanted to be a woman more than when I became a mom. I wanted to be Marty’s first go-to for all things, but I’m starting to think there isn’t room for two on the mighty mommy throne.

Sabrina is Marty’s biological mother. She gestated her for nine months and breast-fed her for nine more, so their bond had a built-in physicality. Did that make it superior?

Peggy Drexler, a research psychologist and the author of “Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family,” said that while favoritism may hurt in ways unique to nonbiological moms in same-sex relationships, it has nothing to do with biology and it actually signals developmental progress.

“When a child plays favorites — which is totally normal, by the way — it’s usually an early and familiar way of asserting independence and practicing decision-making. It’s a positive sign of cognitive, and emotional, growth.” She even suggested that it indicates Marty’s confidence in my love for her: “She feels secure in your love — that she can be mean to you, reject you, and you’ll still love her back.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: fairyington; freakshow; homosexualagenda; lesbians; moralabsolutes; newyorkslimes; nyslimesfakenews; perverts
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To: reaganaut1
p38

Why am I not surprised? They never look like HBO.

21 posted on 10/27/2018 7:33:30 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: JayGalt

Yeah, and notice they found a psychologist to claim that the child favoring her biological mother is totally random, implying that the child could be just as attached to mommy’s latest girlfriend. BS.


22 posted on 10/27/2018 7:37:52 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: max americana

I read an article written by grown children who said that as kids they were coached to say they had a wonderful life with 2 Moms or 2 Dads but that it had been very painful & isolating and they had trouble forming relationships not having grown up with role models for both sexes.

I think it’s very cruel to submerge children in an experiment to help you prove that you are normal. This is their life and they can’t get a do over.


23 posted on 10/27/2018 7:44:47 PM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: GnuThere

There is always a psychologist with an axe to grind. That babble about the child being so secure that she could reject the other woman and the woman would still love her....psychobabble.


24 posted on 10/27/2018 7:46:32 PM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: manc

It’s sad to see the child caught up in this.


25 posted on 10/27/2018 7:48:11 PM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: reaganaut1

Delusional, start to finish.

They are just making excuses for the 3 year old’s behavior to make themselves feel better.


26 posted on 10/27/2018 7:59:48 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: reaganaut1
Sabrina is Marty’s biological mother. She gestated her for nine months and breast-fed her for nine more, so their bond had a built-in physicality. Did that make it superior?

Yes, because you are not her mom.

27 posted on 10/27/2018 8:00:30 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: reaganaut1

Pardon my French, but crap like this makes my skin crawl. It’s a visceral revulsion, and I believe it’s perfectly normal. (My revulsion, I mean, not the sexual perversion.)


28 posted on 10/27/2018 8:05:43 PM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: reaganaut1

This should really have had a *barf* warning in the headline, though stupid me didn’t complete reading before I clicked. Wah wah...


29 posted on 10/27/2018 8:54:35 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: reaganaut1

How many belly buttons does Marty have? That’s how many mommas Marty has.


30 posted on 10/27/2018 9:04:17 PM PDT by c-five
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To: reaganaut1

Women can’t be dads, and dykes can’t marry.

It ain’t a family, and you’re just a perv.


31 posted on 10/27/2018 9:16:22 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: reaganaut1

Bizarre thought processes there. Maybe it’s the kind of mental pretzels that inspired that lesbian couple to drive off a cliff with all their kids. This kind of confusion and envy and jealousy can’t be good for this “family”. And heaven help the kids caught up in the mess.


32 posted on 10/27/2018 9:57:18 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: reaganaut1
Sabrina is Marty’s biological mother. She gestated her for nine months and breast-fed her for nine more, so their bond had a built-in physicality. Did that make it superior?

Yes, absolutely. The kid instinctively knows you’re not the mama, and you’re not the daddy, and she is not your daughter.

33 posted on 10/27/2018 10:19:29 PM PDT by pigsmith (Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
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To: Blurb2350

Ditto.


34 posted on 10/27/2018 10:24:47 PM PDT by pigsmith (Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
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To: reaganaut1

Naturam expellas furca ...


35 posted on 10/27/2018 10:49:07 PM PDT by John Locke
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To: throwback

True.

A FReeper suggested when you’re reading the “transgendered woman” or “transgendered man” stories substitute the word “fake” for “transgendered.”

I’ve now been able to decipher the various MSM propaganda articles using that handy bit of advice.


36 posted on 10/28/2018 3:20:42 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: reaganaut1
It’s a positive sign of cognitive, and emotional, growth.” She even suggested that it indicates Marty’s confidence in my love for her: “She feels secure in your love — that she can be mean to you, reject you, and you’ll still love her back.”

I wonder how they knows that, as opposed to simple "I don't like this horse, but I'll keep riding it as long as she'll let me...?"

37 posted on 10/28/2018 3:54:13 AM PDT by papertyger (We have nothing to fear, but fear of the media.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

An unwanted child begins with an unloving world around it and the beginning of mental health issues and then is thrown into bizzaro world in its young life until adult hood. How do you think this is going to turn out?


38 posted on 10/28/2018 4:15:34 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: reaganaut1
Stephanie Fairyington? I couldn't find any other Fairyington in the USA. Probably in the world.

She is SPECIAL!

These fumb ducks are so nauseating.

39 posted on 10/28/2018 5:23:56 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: reaganaut1

A girl named Marty?? Marty is a boy’s name, but these morons are trying to unisex Marty...Sick people...


40 posted on 10/28/2018 5:26:38 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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