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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

Jay, you need to re-evaluate yourself. Playing with tractors is no cause for alarm; neither is the gridiron. Let your son be his natural, masculine self. All you need to do is make a good man out of him, if you even can.


81 posted on 04/25/2022 2:40:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Well, there is hope for Dad after all.


82 posted on 04/25/2022 2:42:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: millenial4freedom

Mega-cuck.

CC


83 posted on 04/25/2022 3:02:00 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: millenial4freedom

The guy’s a fag. His dad was an interior decorator for crying out loud. He never stood a chance.


84 posted on 04/25/2022 3:06:20 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: millenial4freedom; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

It’s hard enough for Black boys today. This kid needs a James Evans, Sr. dad. Instead he gets a virtue-signaling, pasty-White, no-testosterone, ultra-cuck, fake Jew, ultraleft, Sodomite-groomer moonbat. Child abuse, plain and simple.


85 posted on 04/25/2022 3:24:22 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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To: Paladin2

Some women are damn good water haulers on the oil patch.


86 posted on 04/25/2022 3:27:34 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: sphinx

“There are red tractors and green tractors. Even morons know that.”

LOL

Truer words have never been spoken.


87 posted on 04/25/2022 3:38:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: millenial4freedom

Only a simp beta cucked “dad” says this crap.


88 posted on 04/25/2022 3:51:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: V_TWIN

“Maybe I’m just a city boy but first off what the hell is a “tractor shirt”? I ain’t never heard of such.”

SHUSH. Don’t EVER tell someone you don’t know what a tractor shirt looks like.

enjoy!

https://www.spreadshirt.com/shop/clothing/t-shirts/mens+tractor/?page=5


89 posted on 04/25/2022 3:51:56 PM PDT by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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To: millenial4freedom

It’s only a matter of time before Jay comes out as Gay.


90 posted on 04/25/2022 3:52:21 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: millenial4freedom

It’s disturbing that an American man would think these things, let alone say them in public.


91 posted on 04/25/2022 3:54:29 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: millenial4freedom
I'm surprised....

That a castrated male could produce an offspring!🤓

92 posted on 04/25/2022 3:56:42 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the ones trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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To: millenial4freedom

This has to be parody, right?


93 posted on 04/25/2022 4:02:47 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: millenial4freedom

Take him to a titty bar when he’s old enough, and he’ll start liking something feminine.


94 posted on 04/25/2022 4:06:33 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: Paladin2
Yep.

These people have belief in masculine and feminine stereotypes that would make the most hidebound Victorian blink and say "taking it a bit far there ol' chap".

95 posted on 04/25/2022 4:06:35 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

It’s about having a dancing little friend in his briefs. It wants to extend itself, say “Say hello to my leetle friend!” Today tractors, tomorrow he’ll want to park his tractor in a smooth, wet tool shed.


96 posted on 04/25/2022 4:09:23 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: ifinnegan
"I remember how much my son loved trains when he was young and airplanes flying over."

When my daughter was little she wanted a fire engine for Christmas. That was fine with us. She is now a highly paid engineer.

Her femininity is clearly indicated by the fact that she still has that fire engine in her forties and it is in practically new condition. Every toy I ever had succumbed quickly to some form of childish physics experiment.

97 posted on 04/25/2022 4:09:55 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: sphinx
Now there are orange and blue tractors as well.

Green is ticking off their client base in record numbers.

98 posted on 04/25/2022 4:10:53 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: gr8eman

Avis, we try (to be gay) harder...


99 posted on 04/25/2022 4:15:08 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the ones trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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To: atc23
He’s a stay at home dad while his wife is with her boyfriend and his SS 396 Chevelle at the strip tonight.

Almost correct...His wife is with HIS boyfriend and her girlfriend at the strip club... 🤓

100 posted on 04/25/2022 4:20:15 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the ones trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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