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- From: steven@jaynes ( Steve Novak)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Out of the Mouths of Babes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.232152.16297@advtech.uswest.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 23:21:52 GMT
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- > = (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >> = (Hot Young Star):
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- [...]
- >> As if that weren't unusual enough, the little girl, seeing that her
- >> parents and the two approaching men were both holding hands, said
- >> matter-of-factly:
- >>
- >> "Two daddies!"
- >>
- >> Let's hope she retains this attitude for the rest of her life, and does
- >> not end up having her mind poisoned by heterosexism like so many other
- >> people.
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- >I hate to break it to you Brian, but for a while my little girl called
- >ALL men "daddy" and ALL women "mommy".
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- I fail to see why you'd put any stock, then, in your daughter pointing to
- a plastic embryo and saying "baby".
-
- >We got some pretty funny looks
- >in the grocery store. There was one time I love to recall, where she
- >pointed at a thin woman with short hair and said, "Daddy!" Then she
- >did a double-take and said "Mommy!".
-
- Your daughter sounds like a typical confused toddler. Now, just why
- would her inaccuracies "shame" us?
-
- >I strongly suspect your little niece was not embracing homosexualism as much
- >as she was simply verbalizing that she could tell that they were both men.
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- She was also indicating that any homophobia would have to be learned.
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