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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He’s a pussy, Jim.
LOL!! With a name like Avishai, he’ll learn to fight at an early age!
Today, there is a huge amount of mental illness in society.
And twenty years from now ... there will be much, much more.
He’s taking out his daddy issues on his son.
I used to let my kid climb on the tractors displayed at John Deere when he was that age! It’s amazing to watch!
There’s a number of womens who can and do drive tractors, combines, grain trucks.
They are all over Youtube.
This bozo should check it out for his mental health.
Beta? Not even a Gamma..................
If he had been born a girl it would be okay if she wanted to be masculine?
It would be a-ok if she wore tractor t-shirt and oversized
Work boots.
You know the type, liberal tie-dye beta type who marry a black girl to make a statement. Now he wants his son to be a fag. Sick.
He’s a stay at home dad while his wife is with her boyfriend and his SS 396 Chevelle at the strip tonight.
Revealed at the end, Dad’s acceptance of his son’s being a real boy.
I had difficulty understanding my son’s interest in tractors, and at first, I tried to nudge Avishai toward different videos and clothing. But then I remembered how hard it was for my father to trust me to follow my passions, and the way we connected after he finally did. I took on being an at-home father because I wanted to bond with my son, and I realized that meant I needed to let him discover his own interests. He had to define his own identity, not influenced by my own bias of what I deemed to be too masculine.
I started taking joy in his joy. He radiates wearing his shirts emblazoned with diggers and dozers and excavators. At 3 ½ years old, he can name dozens of types of tractors (I always thought there was only one). He makes up quasi-gibberish tractor stories, sings quasi-gibberish tractor songs. Together, we clean the living room: He uses his tractors to put all his toys away. Sometimes my dad comes over and we drive tiny plastic machinery from room to room. My son beams. My dad beams. I beam, too.
That’s to much like reality.
“That Boy Ain’t Right”.
Seriously. DUDE. WTF is wrong with you?!?
Wanna play cricket on the green
Ride my bike across the street
Cut myself and see my blood
Wanna come home all covered in mud
I’m a boy, I’m a boy
But my ma won’t admit it
I’m a boy, I’m a boy
But if I say I am, I get it
-The Who
Well, hey, dimbulb, stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason.
Why aren’t you as accepting of his likes and dislikes just because they are “stereotypical”? Aren’t you accepting him as the person he is?
Honestly, leftists are such sexists.
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