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I wanted my son to reject masculine stereotypes. Then he fell in love with tractors
MSN ^ | 04/21/2022 | Jay Deitcher

Posted on 04/25/2022 12:15:15 PM PDT by millenial4freedom

After turning 2 years old, my son, Avishai, started demanding that he only wear tractor shirts, and my mind spiraled into darkness. I catastrophized worst-case scenarios, imagining a world where he fell for everything stereotypically manly. I envisioned him on a football field, barreling through mega-muscled opponents. Imagined him waxing a sports car on a warm summer day. I have always judged other guys who seemed boxed in by masculinity, but 3 ½ years ago, when I became a stay-at-home dad, my bias skyrocketed. My son was born in Albany, New York, on the bedroom floor of the apartment I shared with my wife. Minutes after his arrival, we took turns cuddling him against our bare chests. While the midwife and her assistant cleaned up, my wife, always one to joke, even soon after giving birth, bragged that she had a connection to our new baby that I could never attain because men couldn’t bond with babies like women could.

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To: millenial4freedom

Is this a fake Babylon Bee site?


41 posted on 04/25/2022 12:44:03 PM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: dfwgator

Pet Townshend, way ahead of his time..


42 posted on 04/25/2022 12:44:15 PM PDT by SloppyDrummer (There's a place for us...)
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To: millenial4freedom

Put down the soy milk, dad...maybe they will grow back.


43 posted on 04/25/2022 12:44:22 PM PDT by Adder (Proud member of the FJBLGB community: /s is implied where applicable.)
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To: millenial4freedom

44 posted on 04/25/2022 12:44:25 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PapaBear3625

I’ve got some really bad news for you Epsilon Dad. The attraction to tractors not only shows that your child is a (gasp) boy, he is likely to be a red-stater at heart. You’ll have to release him into the wilds on the west side of the Appalachians where he will be adopted by a family of barbarians unfamiliar with the importance of a bagel with a thick schmear. They will Make Avishai Great Again.


45 posted on 04/25/2022 12:46:00 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: gr8eman

Israeli name. In English it’s almost always Abishai. A pal of King David in the Bible. Quite the warrior. Surprised Dad didn’t name him Nimrod.


46 posted on 04/25/2022 12:46:25 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: millenial4freedom

Appears he gets the masculine traits from mom, dad is a squishy twink.


47 posted on 04/25/2022 12:46:54 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

What no one tells you about gubmint run schools is that they’re effectively Fight Clubs for young boys. Trust me, I know. Fortunately my son is smart and a purple sash in Kung Fu. The first 3 years were Kommando Academy for him as he used to get into it every day! (Ex- wife won’t let him go to a real school...don’t ask)


48 posted on 04/25/2022 12:47:42 PM PDT by gr8eman (All is incomprehensible, but nothing is unintelligible; Victor Hugo)
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To: millenial4freedom

What exactly is too masculine for a male?


49 posted on 04/25/2022 12:49:36 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: millenial4freedom

Oh no! Your son might just grow up to be a man! The horror!!!!!!


50 posted on 04/25/2022 12:50:19 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: millenial4freedom

Guys who wear those clear plastic frame glasses are suspect.

I can’t wait until the son decides he wants an AR-15 or something!

The guy’s head will asplode. Yes, I spelled it that way on purpose.


51 posted on 04/25/2022 12:50:19 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: millenial4freedom
I have always judged other guys who seemed boxed in by masculinity

Well there's your problem. Stop judging others by your pre-conceived notions of how life should be.

52 posted on 04/25/2022 12:51:32 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: millenial4freedom

Being a trannie is very vogue these days and parents and pre-adolescents get sucked in to it for the wrong reasons and without understanding the ramifications. Unfortunately, people are ill-advisedly making life changing decisions that are irreversible. Society will have to deal with irrevocably f’ed up people for years to come.


53 posted on 04/25/2022 12:51:45 PM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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To: millenial4freedom

Love watching videos of Tractors and Combines on YouTube.


54 posted on 04/25/2022 12:52:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Paladin2

My Mother and all six of her sisters could operate any piece of equipment on the farm.


55 posted on 04/25/2022 12:54:17 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (When the kings fight the serfs suffer.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Thanks to Tractors and Combines, that’s how food ends up in the Supermarket. But I guess that concept is too much for wokesters to grasp.


56 posted on 04/25/2022 12:54:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: millenial4freedom
What a mess this shaky dude is. I can't imagine contemplating such stupidity. When my son was four, he carried his sisters doll around for a while. Then weeks later, he carried all five of his Scooby Doo action figures everywhere he went. That lasted months. Then he liked wooden blocks. I never fretted about any of it and wondered how it affected my vision of him or me.

I actually know a woman who was horrified that her four year old daughter embraced the whole Disney princess thing. To her credit, she kept her horror away from her daughter and let her wear the dresses and crowns and stuff because it made the girl happy.

57 posted on 04/25/2022 12:56:16 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: millenial4freedom
Hey, Jay, you seemed to have accepted reality, in the end.

Remember the saying "Boys will be boys"?

Hopefully, he'll grow up to learn to operate heavy equipment and he'll have a well paying job, anywhere he wants to go.

58 posted on 04/25/2022 12:57:08 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: gr8eman

Your son will be ready when it’s time and some stupid soul tries to step on his toes.

I learned the hard way. But it made me ruthless with the neighborhood kids.

Gubmit schools are death zones.


59 posted on 04/25/2022 1:00:10 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

USED carhartts. Carthartt recently went WOKE


60 posted on 04/25/2022 1:03:16 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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