-It's totally cool for people of color to be racist against white people and anyway it's not racist and I'm gonna splain how -Bumptious Borderline Babes are trying to get them some prison murderer daddy and they're telling the world about it. -Commercial surrogacy is human trafficking, it's commissioning, buying, and selling babies. Women and gay men are not excused from criticism for trafficking children simply because they're women and gay men.
Back in 1994, when my longtime companion showed a picture of me to the sperm bank, I was excited but concerned. My partner was sure everything would be okay, but I worried there might be a big downside to our daughter not having a father. Luckily (I guess), by the time she went to school, non-traditional families weren’t so uncommon as to be jarring upon notice. (There was the time, though, when I visited her at lunch, that a student asked me if I was her mother, to which she threw up her arms and said, “Is everybody in Miss S——-‘s second grade class going to ask her that question?!?”) Later in life (years after her mother’s and my breakup) she told me that she had at times been harassed, not for having two moms but for having three! I told her I was truly sorry about that. And I am. But then I asked her if she liked her life—having achieved honor student status throughout high school and college despite an active social life with lots of after-school activities. Without hesitation she said, “yes,” whereupon I hugged her and said, “All I can tell you is that the person you are is the result of one moment in time. The same two adults could create siblings but not *you* ever again.” She nodded contemplatively. “And just so you know,” I told her, “your life is the biggest blessing in mine.” She seemed okay with the trade off. She’s now 27, living without roommates for the first time and working in a managerial position at a jury selection company. … I agree that this setup was second best in societal, and human, terms, and I do accept and appreciate that. But sometimes second best works out too. (An aside: I am not a fan of the nuclear family as the best setup for kids. The extended family—where mothers and aunts and eldest daughters helped each other out and fathers were mostly unseen until dinner time—was much better, in my view. This ended, though, with the mass production of automobiles and the postwar expansion westward. I’m not sure that it’s been an especially good trade.)
Watched the show last night.👏👍 l would have missed so much if I had watched the Super Bowl game, half-time show (I wonder what kind of life are the children of Rhianna going to have. Bet they'll have more than a passing acquaintance with Balenciaga 👺👹👿) and the commercials instead.
Truly appreciated your unabridged opinions, which I share, about surrogacy, the actual racism(against whites) going on in this country, and finally, the absurdity of the border-line babe lusting after prison dudes.
Back in 1994, when my longtime companion showed a picture of me to the sperm bank, I was excited but concerned. My partner was sure everything would be okay, but I worried there might be a big downside to our daughter not having a father. Luckily (I guess), by the time she went to school, non-traditional families weren’t so uncommon as to be jarring upon notice. (There was the time, though, when I visited her at lunch, that a student asked me if I was her mother, to which she threw up her arms and said, “Is everybody in Miss S——-‘s second grade class going to ask her that question?!?”) Later in life (years after her mother’s and my breakup) she told me that she had at times been harassed, not for having two moms but for having three! I told her I was truly sorry about that. And I am. But then I asked her if she liked her life—having achieved honor student status throughout high school and college despite an active social life with lots of after-school activities. Without hesitation she said, “yes,” whereupon I hugged her and said, “All I can tell you is that the person you are is the result of one moment in time. The same two adults could create siblings but not *you* ever again.” She nodded contemplatively. “And just so you know,” I told her, “your life is the biggest blessing in mine.” She seemed okay with the trade off. She’s now 27, living without roommates for the first time and working in a managerial position at a jury selection company. … I agree that this setup was second best in societal, and human, terms, and I do accept and appreciate that. But sometimes second best works out too. (An aside: I am not a fan of the nuclear family as the best setup for kids. The extended family—where mothers and aunts and eldest daughters helped each other out and fathers were mostly unseen until dinner time—was much better, in my view. This ended, though, with the mass production of automobiles and the postwar expansion westward. I’m not sure that it’s been an especially good trade.)
Watched the show last night.👏👍 l would have missed so much if I had watched the Super Bowl game, half-time show (I wonder what kind of life are the children of Rhianna going to have. Bet they'll have more than a passing acquaintance with Balenciaga 👺👹👿) and the commercials instead.
Truly appreciated your unabridged opinions, which I share, about surrogacy, the actual racism(against whites) going on in this country, and finally, the absurdity of the border-line babe lusting after prison dudes.