Posted on 12/15/2004 6:44:06 PM PST by Lorianne
A decidedly nonabstract perspective comes in the form of Lesbians Raising Sons, edited by Jess Wells and published by Alyson Books of Los Angeles.
In her introduction, Jess Wells explains that the whole issue of lesbians raising sons is due to a biological circumstance. "A socially and biologically driven phenomenon is producing a disproportionate number of male children within the current lesbian baby boom. Lesbians who choose to undergo donor insemination now have at least a 65 percent chance of bearing a son." .
An even more extreme vision of lesbian motherhood and sons was related by Ruthann Robson as she explained the response of lesbian separatists to the birth of her son. Having been separatists themselves, they were puzzled by how they would deal with this baby boy. "What were two dykes going to do with this miniature emissary from the patriarchy who invaded our lives?
Robson tells that their friends largely left them. "Inez said she could no longer come to meetings at our house because our rooms exuded maleness." Raquel, another friend, "told us she couldn't believe we simply didn't give up the 'male child' for adoption when 'the bourgeois' were starving for healthy white baby boys and it would be so easy for us to start over." Another lesbian friend showed up to give speeches "about lesbian strength being dissipated, about lesbian separatist ethics, about lesbian obligations to the future, about the inviolability of gender."
Finally, another lesbian, whose sexual advances Robson had rejected, "stood up at the Coconut Grove Lesbian Dance, Meeting, and Pot Luck and proposed a rule that would bar all 'lesbians in any way participating in male-energized households' from the group."
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I feel sorry for these children, not because their parents are homosexual, but because the parents are seemingly so intolerant. How can you look at your own son as "invading" YOUR life? I find that so incredibly sad.
Yep. . .have a problem with that. . .
Wow, some of these gals are just frothing at the mouth! I think there are serious issues there beyond mere homosexuality, that's for certain.
Darn, the first time around I read that as the Coconut Grove Dance, Meeting and Pot Lick; seems like I can't get anything straight, nowadays.
Sorry.... I thought from the headline this was another Maureen Dowd thread. I'm just surfing for pictures of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
I guess we know what his excuse will be when he grows up to be a mass murderer. The only question is - will the ACLU support his argument? That should pose a real problem for them.
You're not going to find much on this thread that's straight.
What more does a boy need?
Oh yea, beer!
Growing up without a father in the home, I can tell you this is a huge mistake.
Yes, and the Queer Village needs to come to grips with their perversion and what they are going to harvest...
There'll be an especially screwed-up generation of "men" out there in a couple decades.
Who will they have for role models?
Who's going to teach them about honor, morality, or any other thing a man is expected to know?
Really? Then why did none of the other children with a male and a female parent have any problem?
I immediatley thought, "They are raising them to be homos" and then I saw this and I was sure:
In the book's first chapter, Sara Asch wrote of her son, "who is apparently a girl and who, if he were old enough to read this, would be furious at me for using this male pronoun." She goes on to explain that the boy wears eleven braids decorated with eighty-eight beads. "Flowing tresses is the effect he seeks, for he has studied well the white girls with their long, straight hair. He has watched the college girls who student-teach, the video mermaids, the female heroines of the silver screen. He knows how to toss his head just so, to tuck a lock behind his ear, to suck on a strand that reaches the mouth. And he covets the opportunity. His braids, done by his butchish mommy with loving care, some fear, and a deep commitment to his growing spirit, are his way into that tress experience."
Holy cow!
I'm a GIRL, and I'm not sure I'VE ever had a "tress experience."
Regards,
I got ten bucks that says all of these "women" catch their 12yr old sons whacking to THEIR lesbo porn.
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