Childfree Abby - Raising Our Son To Be A Manly Man.21 April 2006Message ID: 124igcihk4mve72@news.supernews.com
Dear Abby: My husband, "Ron," and I are at odds over parenting our 7-year-old son, "Brett." My husband is very domestic. He cooks like a world-class chef and does more housework than any man I know of. I have read Dr. James Dobson's books on family. He clearly states that a father should be the manly role model for the son, to prevent the son from being homosexual. I'm concerned that Brett will learn feminine ways from my husband and turn out to be gay. -- Worried Mom in Florida Dear Worried Mom: From my perspective, you don't need to change a thing. Your husband is already a manly role model to your son. He is teaching the boy important survival skills. With luck, your son will turn out to be every bit the man -- and father -- that your husband is.
Dear Numbnuts: Your ignorance is only surpassed by your gullibility. That's what happens if you believe fundie whack-jobs instead of using common sense: things get very fuzzy, logic becomes a distant and hazy memory and you feel a need to send "donations" to support said fundy whack-job's alleged ministry. This procedure may be less invasive than a frontal lobotomy, but the end results are the same. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you apply your reasoning to the world at large there should be no gay firemen, truck drivers, policemen, hockey players or carpenters. Furthermore, every woman who is a plumber, postal carrier, truck driver or for that matter, fire-fighter is a lesbian. Let me say this very slowly - The fact that your husband cooks and cleans has nothing to do with his sexual identity. The fact that your husband cooks like a chef and isn't above cleaning the toilets is something for which you should be grateful. Someday, your son will have to live on his own, cook his own meals, do his laundry and scrub his own toilet. It is better that he learn these valuable skills now. Unless, of course, you plan on his never leaving home, or you plan on moving in with him at college to make sure that he has clean socks and underwear. Your son may be homosexual, or he may not. However, whatever he turns out to be, it has nothing to do with the fact that your husband makes a wicked creme brulee and runs the vacuum cleaner more often than you do. By the way, if you want a decent book on parenting chuck Dobson's book in the trash where it belongs and read some John Rosemond.
Childfree Abby
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