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Im not turning my Child GAY ! !
Last week I took five people off my friends list on facebook - four for their comments about marriage equality and one because of a message they sent me.
That day I had posted a status about my twenty-month-old son Charles, walking around the house with his two babies in a pram (Elmo and Abby Cadabby), a pair of my kitten heels on his feet, and a handbag on his shoulder. Needless to say, it was adorable.
Only one person had a problem with this, and they sent it to me via a Facebook message. They were concerned that by supplying my son with a pram, letting him wear handbags and my shoes, I was turning him into one of those 'god-defying homosexuals'. This was someone I had met through parenting, so they knew me well enough to know my son is an only child and I had gone out of my way to buy him a pram (only colour available was pink).
They evidently didn't know me well enough to know I was once president of View Askew, a support group for homosexual students and supporters at Waikato University.
Needless to say, I was disgusted. This person earnestly believed that I was turning my child into a gay baby by letting him play mother to his toys.
If my son is gay, it won't be caused by me or anyone. I doubt that playing with a pink pram (and wearing pink nappies for that matter) is going to have anything to do with his sexual preferences as an adult.
The simple fact remains that I bought a toy for my son that nurtures the caring side he has begun to show. He frequently asks for a sibling ( We 'av Baby Mumma?). He loves the pram in question. My husband and I bought it for him because he had been putting his toys on an old walker trolley so he could push them around.
The real kicker is that if, in fact, my son tells me over the dinner table when he is older that he is getting married to a man, I will be thrilled; a son-in-law sounds just as wonderful to me as a daughter-in-law would.
The reason I decided to submit this is because the stereotype that if a boy plays with dolls or likes pink (my son's favourite colour) they must be gay. Yet, if a little girl plays with trucks and a hammer it is a wonderful thing, gender equality at its best.
For me gender equality at its best is when my son sits playing with his dolls, and I can make a status about it on Facebook without people making a fuss.
That day I had posted a status about my twenty-month-old son Charles, walking around the house with his two babies in a pram (Elmo and Abby Cadabby), a pair of my kitten heels on his feet, and a handbag on his shoulder. Needless to say, it was adorable.
Only one person had a problem with this, and they sent it to me via a Facebook message. They were concerned that by supplying my son with a pram, letting him wear handbags and my shoes, I was turning him into one of those 'god-defying homosexuals'. This was someone I had met through parenting, so they knew me well enough to know my son is an only child and I had gone out of my way to buy him a pram (only colour available was pink).
They evidently didn't know me well enough to know I was once president of View Askew, a support group for homosexual students and supporters at Waikato University.
Needless to say, I was disgusted. This person earnestly believed that I was turning my child into a gay baby by letting him play mother to his toys.
If my son is gay, it won't be caused by me or anyone. I doubt that playing with a pink pram (and wearing pink nappies for that matter) is going to have anything to do with his sexual preferences as an adult.
The simple fact remains that I bought a toy for my son that nurtures the caring side he has begun to show. He frequently asks for a sibling ( We 'av Baby Mumma?). He loves the pram in question. My husband and I bought it for him because he had been putting his toys on an old walker trolley so he could push them around.
The real kicker is that if, in fact, my son tells me over the dinner table when he is older that he is getting married to a man, I will be thrilled; a son-in-law sounds just as wonderful to me as a daughter-in-law would.
The reason I decided to submit this is because the stereotype that if a boy plays with dolls or likes pink (my son's favourite colour) they must be gay. Yet, if a little girl plays with trucks and a hammer it is a wonderful thing, gender equality at its best.
For me gender equality at its best is when my son sits playing with his dolls, and I can make a status about it on Facebook without people making a fuss.
I say good on her for taking a stand. Parents need to get the Message that
if yr child does turn out to be Gay, Its a good thing and not to be looked
upon like its some Disease or Freak of Nature.