Thursday, December 6, 2007
Interesting "View"
I hope this works...it is a YouTube video from "The View"...Ms. Sherry Shephard has been raising a few eyebrows with some of her views...curious to know what ya'll think...I have an opinion, but i don't have children (nor a desire to have them) so my opinion is only a theoretical one and could possibly differ if I really had kids that had to navigate a public school environment....
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i had a huge blow up with my son's father because i allowed my father to buy him a kitchen area for x-mas. at the time my son was part of a play group where all his friends were girls. they all had kitchen areas. they were 4 yyears old.
cyrano loved to stir imaginary peas and carrots on the stovetop, serve me plates of plastic drumsticks and wash dishes. it was the cutest thing!
cyrano's father was mad at my father for giving the toy and demanded that we return it. i wasn't having it. cyrano was so happy with it he practically whistled while he played.
i remember shouting "if the boy wants a kitchen area let him have it. whatever you're so afraid of get over it! if he's gay you won't stop it by getting rid of his kitchen area!"
he happily played with that toy for a year or so then lost interest. it was a non-issue. i don't think i would be fazed by any normative gender bending behavior. imaginary play seems normal to me. i wonder though if i would feel different if their behavior was completely different from their peers. can't immediately imagine what that would look like since both of my sons dressed up and played with dolls as well as action figures.
whatever you're so afraid of sherry shephard, get over it!
wow, we're getting hi tech with video posts!
hey --
i watched this clip over michelle's shoulder this morning, and it reminded me of the time my mother caught me trying to pee standing up when i was about 5 years old. she slapped me SENSELESS! she lost it completely.
well, as it turns out her biggest fears were correct AND slapping me senseless didn't solve a thing :-)
i think the parents that have the heart attacks when they see their children exhibiting "opposite-sex" behavior are the ones who already suspect -- or already know -- that their child might be gay. they just can not handle it, and they think that they can change it somehow when the child is still young enough to be controlled.
but they don't realize how much is already going on inside the child's head. if the child really is gay, the dress (or the peeing standing up :-) is just the tip of the iceberg. and momma will not be able to stop that train, no matter how loud she yells.
sherry shephard is a big ass liar -- if her little jeffrey announces that he is gay, she's not gonna "love him anyway, blah, blah, blah" -- she is going to knock him SENSELESS!
by the way, i did manage to aim it into the toilet before denise knocked me down :-)
you know, I really want to like Sherri--Leona & I like the View so much more now than we used to--but she keeps saying stupid shit & I'm having a hard time. I'm so discouraged by how fully Sherri has bought into the patriarchal bullshit of religion and politics...
AND, I think you're mostly right, PDW. If her son is gay, she'll beat him senseless & if that doesn't work, she'll figure out how to love him all the same...(nice to see you here :) )
BTW, my mom is notorious for buying baby girls Tonka trucks...I can't wait! That's the kind of grandma I want for my kids.
Well, I used to bake a mean Bundt cake in my sister's EZ-bake oven and girl, I used to style her dolls' hair and cut it to make them prettier and more fashionable (I always promised Kim it would grow back!). I used to skip rope with the girls at school (I always found them so much more interesting and fun than the stupid boys). I never wanted to BE a girl, I just wanted to hang out with them and do the same stuff they did. I was oblivious to the notion that I was different or abnormal. I was just doing what felt natural. That all ended in 4th grade when the other kids (all boys) started to notice how different i was than all the other boys. I can't remember a day at school when I wasn't called a sissy or queer bait (i never figured what that meant until I was in my twenties!) or faggot. The only two people in my family to "call me out" were my grandma, who said to me one time, "you know you shoulda been a girl" and my older brother, Jim who said that he was gonna punch me in my "faggy mouth." Who knew having a little swish in ones step and loving to do "girl" things could bring out the worst in people? I say a girl’s gotta be who a girl’s gotta be! Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful and fabulusssss! : 0 )
oh, i forgot to mention that Sherri is officially retarded in my book and i no longer find her amusing.
shmoop, thanks for posting this interesting clip!
emmy and pdw, LOVE your stories!
kath, your mom rocks!
kathy..was that a subtle (or not so subtle) hint that we should be expected little ones from y'alls household??
emmy..I love your determination!!! and i can just picture little cyrano playing house...he was lucky to have you as a mom!! unfortunately my mom would have agreed with your ex-husband..
pdw..as usual you never cease to amaze me! your standing up trying to pee story reminds me of playing "doctor" as a child and being so fascinated by girls' bodies...unfortunately for my parents that curiosity did not translate into sexual attraction...
and yes, i agree with all..Sherry Shephard has lost all appeal for me..i used to really enjoy her on the talk show circuit but..the love is gone!
Reg, it was a reference to our possibly potential child/children we might one day be expecting. Granted, with any luck, this is our last kid-free Christmas, but there's nothing imminent (yet)....
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