http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/10/which-is-the-dad-and-which-is-the-mom.html love. justice. family. equality. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:11:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/10/which-is-the-dad-and-which-is-the-mom.html#comment-4388 Dustin Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:49:07 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/10/which-is-the-dad-and-which-is-the-mom.html#comment-4388 Great points, Dave. I have this problem with my family, too, especially my mom -- probably because her life as a woman and a mother was so strongly defined for her by the gender roles she was expected to fulfill from the time she was a child. I have to convince her sometimes, for example, that my stepdad really can fix his own plate at dinner. Her reaction is like, "Well, why would he? That's what I do." I think we can forget sometimes how a lot of the "traditional gender roles" reactions we get from people when we talk about LGBTQ parenting comes from their own sense of what they can and cannot do. We're not the only one who need to be liberated from this stuff! Great points, Dave. I have this problem with my family, too, especially my mom — probably because her life as a woman and a mother was so strongly defined for her by the gender roles she was expected to fulfill from the time she was a child. I have to convince her sometimes, for example, that my stepdad really can fix his own plate at dinner. Her reaction is like, “Well, why would he? That’s what I do.” I think we can forget sometimes how a lot of the “traditional gender roles” reactions we get from people when we talk about LGBTQ parenting comes from their own sense of what they can and cannot do. We’re not the only one who need to be liberated from this stuff!

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