Posted on 06/20/2016 7:26:40 PM PDT by massmike
A lesbian couple featured in a BuzzFeed video on “gender non-conforming” parenting is trying to force their son to have a “queer” relationship with his gender despite his protests.
“It’s really funny, because he’s like super into sports,” Michelle said. “Maybe he was like an Olympic athlete in his past life. He like, came with all of these sporting talents that are like visible at 17 months. That’s what Dashiell liked growing up. She easily relates to him on that level.”
“I’m constantly like trying to queer my relationship with him and get him to wear tutus. He hates it. He’s just like, ‘no,’” Michelle said.
“When I catch myself trying to do these things, it ends up making me feel really retro and dumb about gender,” Michelle continued. “It just takes me away from the reality of like, him. Atticus. Like who is he? What does he want? And the sort of purity of the things that he’s interested in or delighted by.”
“Obviously, I want to support whatever he wants to be,” Michelle said.
However, later in the video, Michelle says, “He’s taking in kind of kid media. And he has this great book that’s like, just pictures and words. But when you open it up, it’s like, a picture of a girl and a picture of a boy, and it’s like, ‘Girl,’ ‘Boy,’ and I’m just like, ‘Child,’ ‘Child.’”
“This is where he starts learning what things are. And so I hate the idea that he’s getting it imprinted on him that people who look like this are boys, and people who look like that are girls.”
“And even something that’s like Progressive like ‘Sesame Street,’ all the monsters are boys unless they have like a bow in their hair or a sparkly necklace on. Like, why is ‘Old McDonald’ a guy? Why couldn’t it be a lesbian farmer?”
“It’s everywhere. It is. It’s everywhere. I think those are things we are probably more aware of that most people anyway. But with him, we’re probably really sensitive to it,” Dashiell added.
“Sometimes, the best thing to do feels to be constantly challenging and sometimes, it’s almost to ignore gender completely. He’s being raised by a gender non-conforming person, so just the existence of Dashiell is going to be a huge piece of information about the reality of what gender is or isn’t.”
“Everyone needs to be reconsidering the way that they’re presenting gender to their kids. It’s not even whether or not Atticus is personally going to be a genderqueer or genderfluid person. Atticus can grow up to be a completely traditional cisgendered male and he needs to understand the variety of genders that are out there so that he can be a respectful human being in the world,” Michelle concluded.
Good gawd. It’s a Portlandia spoof. That poor, little boy.
Agreed about I wish I had not read it!
The kid in the cover photo is face-palming - classic!
Way to go little guy, hang in there!
If they like, truly, wanted to support him as a boy, who likes girls, then they like wouldn't be trying to like 'queer' their relationship with him. It must be very difficult for the mentally ill to understand that just because they are, doesn't mean their child is.
He may surprise all of us and grow up “normal” in spite of all the perverse pressure his is subjected to. Evolution is not friendly to “queers”.
Gonna be one confused adult one day.
“Poor kid. He doesn’t stand a chance.”
Sounds like he’s already developed discernment and and is resisting their efforts to “queer” him. I think he’ll be fine.
Why aren’t these “parents” in jail?
Someone needs a punch in the nose at every utterance of “like”...
If they lived next to me, I would turn them in for child abuse....
no boy should be raised by a single mom. i understand that it happens (much too often to be honest), but boys need male role models or they will grow up to be either 1) overly aggressive and filled with anger, or 2) emasculated and feminized. they need fathers in their lives. they need men to learn how to be men from. it’s not possible to learn how to be a real man from a mother, nor from our feminist culture (i.e. TV, movies, etc.).
this goes doubly so for boys being raised by lesbians.
Most homosexuals were molested as children.
They want to promote acceptance of their behavior....so they can molest YOUR children.
This poor kid needs to be removed from that home and the women arrested for child sex abuse.
We know what the generation after the Millenials will be called:
“The F***** Up Generation”
Tell me this is satire......... Please!........
I got about halfway through this before I decided to scroll back up and see if it was satire .
That poor child.
If it is, someone will probably report the story as a hate crime.
This reads like satire, but tragically it is not.
My IQ dropped reading that.
I’d have a hard time not laying that out if that was spoken to my face.
what, what the #### happened to this country?!?!
Hollywood is basically a breeding ground now for rich powerful men to rape boys day and night.
I took a presidential survey and it asked if i was male, female, or OTHER.
WT# is other?!?!!
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