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But then I couldn't resist, and Whois'd her site, and I see "Missouri", and I'm reminded by it that it's "2010", so I guess that means I shouldn't be surprised or something.
Best mom ever!
When my youngest was 3, we were at the Disney store, and he was picking out a "treat." He chose a pink glitter purse with the Disney princesses on the front, and a pink feather boa around the opening...why wouldn't he? It was clearly the most fabulous thing in the store! The only people who commented on it were my "liberal" friends...nice.
oh wait-
in Liberal LaLa Land there ARE no appropriate gender behaviors.....
if it's 'no big deal' why is mom making such a fucking big deal out of it?
because it isn't about Boo.*
it's about how enlighten and open-minded mommy is.
"look at mommy!"
"mommy is so much more enlightened than the other mommies!!"
"look! Look!! LOOK!!!"
of course slog laps it up.....
* 'Boo'? 'Squirt'?
mommy is obviously an asshole
In prior years, I think it was worse, but it's still not enough. Today, maybe more than ever, those three deserve a scolding, and one based on their own supposed ethics. While homophobia survives, and gets louder, I think it's getting less wide-spread. I also think there are more Christians who are learning to act, you know, umm... Christian (love thy neighbor, etc.).
Of course, it's always easier to think of a snappy come-back a few days after the event, so I don't fault the Mom for her responses. Still, I would have loved if she had said something like, "This is my wonderful, young and vulnerable son, who I love dearly, and amongst other things, deserves to be happy and wants to make others happy. He can hear and see you, you know, and can't help but be disturbed by your negative attitude. You as a Christian are supposed to be loving and generous in spirit. Why don't you try it on for size? It won't kill you to be sweet, generous and kind to a 5-year-old."
Boo is smarter than mommy.
Just how much was this Boo's idea, really?
Or was it a chance for mommy to earn some Liberal Street Cred?.....
so what if Boo turns out gay?
wait- what are we saying?
it would be AWESOME for mommy's Liberal Street Cred if Boo turns out gay.....
My son was dressed as Cinderella at three, his big sister wanted to dress him up. In truth I think he got that his sister was extremely fragile at the time due to HSP, and at three he wanted to make her happy. Now that she's in remission I don't think he'd be as willing. Darn he was a great sport about it.
As a former Powderpuff football player, and sometimes performer in drag. It was great fun to dress and act differently for awhile. And, it was just as fun dressing my friends in my cheerleading uniforms for those powderpuff games. Life is too short to skip dressing up, in my opinion.
Once again, I applaud Slog for the decision to allow people to courageously post the anonymous opinions they wouldn't dare speak aloud outside of their own houses.
you're welcome.
much better to admire your bare pasty fat ass in the mirror than recognize the fact that you are intellectually naked.
don't run off.
Dan will be sewing a nice new outfit for you any minute now.....
I loved this story when I read it & I love this mother's attitude. And (having dealt with cops myself) I'm amazed that she appears to be married to a cop and still has this wonderful approach to her son.
actually, as we reside in the Real World and not the depraved homoliberal fringe of the 19% (and shrinking...) of Americans who call themselves 'liberal' we have no problem expressing and hearing common sense like this in our town.
well.
having 'dealt with cops' you surely are an expert on the attitudes of each and every cop on the planet.
prejudices and preconceived notions and bigotry are so much fun.
and so very enlightened and liberal.....
'Mothers that have their Son's Back'
are a universal environmental nurturing feature
of every little gay boy's childhood.
Isn't that right, Dan?
now slick-
in a few years when we will be counting on Boo to be a productive contributing member of society he instead will be a tortured shell whose mental illnesses and AIDS are being treated at taxpayer expense.
unless, that is, he has the grace to kill himself first....
Yes, the child was victimized, but not by his mother. It might behoove you to actually read the full entry she wrote at her blog.
she is just panicking that boo may spoil her big "Enlightened Liberal Mom" coming out...
What would there be to blog about if the little bastard won't wear the wig, after all?
I turned out as straight as a 1 dollar bill. Crossdressing for halloween is such an absolute non-issue that I'm amazed anybody could raise a stink about it.
Now that I think back on it, since I had dressed as Bill Clinton the year before, the night I dressed as Lewinsky I could have theoretically blown myself. God dammit for missed opportunities.
great costume. thanks mom!
it's not too late, 'straight' boy.....
And @30's comment is so on target it's not even funny. *Why* do the actions of a 5 year old bother you so much? "Projection" is a very interesting psychological phenomenon you might wanna read up on.
For me unregistered comments are collapsed by default. Which is fine by me, but
1. I'm not for censorship.
and
2. There are often helpful or good remarks by unregistered users, Just as there is trolling by registered users.
THAT'S IT!!
THE TROLL IS GAY!!!
you're not really trying to justify and excuse your prejudices and preconceived notions and bigotry, are you?....
And Daphne? Bah. Everyone knows that of all the Scooby gang, Velma was the awesomest. Come on - the plain girl with glasses that no one ever noticed but who had all the answers anyway? What could be more awesome than that?
(Unfortunately, because of Anonymous Asshole, I have a feeling no one will read this. Or 35's cool comment. One of these days I'll break down and register, but for now I'm too lazy.)
Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZPBUu7F…
ironic.
body guard.
as long as mommy and daddy are there to "bodyguard" the budding little homo they so lovingly and proudly nurture and encourage things are just fine.
'don't be afraid, kid', they order as they shove Boo through the door.
what happens when mommy and daddy are no longer there to bodyguard?
Boo has better life skills and instincts than mommy.
but give her a few years, she'll nurture them right out of him.
and send him out into the Real World.
where males don't dress like Daphne.
stay tuned.....
At the same time, I do appreciate that all comments *can* appear here -- I like to do my share of actual anonymous commentary elsewhere when I can't be arsed to log in. So the way they're weighted here (collapsed or not) works well for me as a compromise between unhindered commentary & unhindered reading...
what?!
you're name isn't really BEG?
More proof that these kids are NOT learning their bigotry from Great Uncle Joe and poor old Aunt Martha.
... wait...
When my 3-1/2 year old nephew goes to his female cousins house, also 3-1/2 and 2, he is only too delighted to dress up in their play wear and put on tiaras and princess slippers and bracelets and necklaces. On the same note, when they go to his house they are only too delighted to play with his train sets and use his Tonka backhoe and skip loader in the pile of dirt in the back yard.
This reminds me of the Clint McCance response. Your kid looks like a homo and I hope they commit suicide. My kid better not even think of coming home in something like this or they'll be locked out of the house permanently. This has to be inbreeding or poisoned water or something. These same parents should be more worried about their obvious stupidity and depravity than about another kids Halloween costume.
Mom, get your kid out of that school and church as fast as you can PLEASE!
Thanks Canuck.
No one should care what people dress as for Halloween, or any other day for that matter.
Oops, sorry. Lapsed into "evil me" there for a minute.
Kids are cute and its time do away with all this obsolete gender identity crap. My boyfriend does dishes. I have worked on my car. Big whoop. I like pants better than skirts (and boy do I like a man in a skirt!)
(as i have no problem with gender identity - just society telling us what boys have to do/wear and what girls have to do/wear)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JNTikHKvtnY/Sw…
Barcelona's Gays And Lesbians To Stage '…
My 2 brothers and I used to dress up in mom's old clothes because it was fun.
I was probably already gay at that point, but they turned out "perfectly normal"...if you can call heterosexuality normal.
Parents can be worse than kids. I took so much crap from other kids' moms for having long hair. As a kid though, I didn't realize how know nothing so many adults are, in many ways they're just fully grown children. But kids expect more from adults so this type of bitchy ex-cheerleader behavior comes off as harsher than peer disapproval.
As far as a kid dressing up like Daphne, it could mean anything. He could have a crush on her, he could be gay, straight, or just think she’s fucking neat. He’s a kid for fucks sake, not worth reading into it.
We made in 3 or 4 minutes before the principal showed up and made us change because we were "causing a disruption." Apparently, despite openly gay students, a strong GSA program, and being a pretty liberal community, cross-dressing was just a huge problem.
Bah.
OMG Yes! It seems frequently that so-called "adulthood" is just the haunted house version of middle school: just as bitchy and small minded, but they usually can't *actually* touch you. I think the biggest thing that makes it get better is that one has a wider pool of people to choose from for friends as an adult, so we're not going in quite so alone...
Which they will; anyone who thinks a five year old is committing some kind of transgression by dressing as a girl for Halloween, or that dressing as a girl for Halloween will make you gay, is suffering from the kind of mental darkness that will never lift.
Too bad they couldn't handle it though. Sheesh.
The upside is that I didn't grow up to be a homophobe, but I can still sing "Get Me To The Church On Time" with the best of Broadway.
Best punch line EVER!!!
The profusion of trolls is getting extremely annoying.
It's managed to get me a Governor elect in Georgia that'll be luckier than all hell to make it to his inauguration without a Grand Jury indictment.
And if this continues, it's going to get us a President who can see Russia from her house.
Good for this mom for sticking for her kid and not mincing any words. Stupid needs to be called stupid!
Woman's lib just didn't go far enough.
And of course this smart little boy would want to be Daphne--she had killer boots.
And if he were truly gay he would dress up as Velma. That's what boys like!
If mom let Boo eat a diet of candy and no veggies because she wanted him to 'be true to himself' we would agree she was irresponsible.
If mom lets Boo play video games instead of ever doing any schoolwork she would likewise be cheating him.
Learning appropriate gender behavior is another critical life skill.
Granted it is not one that the homoliberal fringe recognize any need for at all but then that is a demographic with greatly elevated mental illness issues and it really isn't productive to extrapolate their values onto the wider society.
Mom's like Boo's poorly prepare their children for the challenges of adulthood.
Kids like Boo pay the price.
We read about them on Slog
and Dan rants about the
DamnChristianHomophobicBigotedHaters™
but that widely misses the reality.
No one thinks a five year old is committing some kind of transgression by dressing as a girl for Halloween.
Or a committing some kind of transgression by eating candy or playing video games.
But a parent who doesn't guide their 5 year old into healthy behaviors is.
Hiya Zamboni: I'm the hardcore social Libertarian radical Leftist postmodern-feminist Queer Theorist with WAY too many trans-/interdisciplinary courses on postmodern analytical frameworks under my belt. I might be anywhere between crazy and reasonable, given the day and one's perspective. I like doing theory a lot more than practice. I'm on a kick about privileged discourse right now, particularly institutionalized systems of privilege. Welcome to Slog.
Guys have been dressing as women for centuries for comedy. If you're old enough, you surely remember the many stars on television who did this on a regular basis (Jonathan Winters and Flip Wilson, for example).
What kind of "appropriate gender behavior" are you talking about? Is it the kind that says that women have to stay home with the kids and clean house and cook all day? Is it the kind that says that women can't be doctors, and men can't be nurses? It it the kind that says that men are in charge of everything and women are their submissive properties???
Arggh... I shouldn't even be saying this stuff because it is giving the troll what it wants - a reaction. It feeds off of this sort of energy like some sort of twisted up vampire thing.
You know how they used to say that gay men had dominant mothers and weak fathers? One smarty suggested that once that parents could feel that the child was gay, the father moved away from the child and the mother stepped in with more attention to take up the slack. Cart, horse: interesting theory. I think my mother and sister were onto something -- I'm gay and I was gay at 7 and they could feel it, even if they didn't understand it.
This story pissed me right off. Shame is a super destructive experience for a child--and if it happens at the right time and in the right situation, a little can go a long way towards shaping that kid's sense of self. Those ABC moms are fucked up. I can't believe they would be so unaware as to bring it up in front of Boo.