• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    I’ve never understood conditional love for your children this way. I don’t love my son more or less because he’s a boy and that wouldn’t change if he is a girl. Because he’s my child, I’ve been with him every day of his little life, I brought him into this world. It’s not on me to dictate where his journey takes him, it’s on me to walk that journey with him as far as I can.

    It simply doesn’t and shouldn’t matter.

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I have 2 daughters, was surprised by how many people (whom I assumed weren’t weirdos), gave me condolences for not having a boy…

    Told them they could still come out as boys, it shut them up.

    I lost respect for the people who responded as if that would be a bad thing.

    • Miisha@lemmy.blahaj.zonedeleted by creatorOP
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      23 days ago

      I have 2 daughters
      was surprised by how many people gave me condolences for not having a boy…

      What. The. Actual. Fuck.
      I’m so sorry you had to deal with such people, holy shit. This is waay beyond okay. Holy shit, wtf is wrong with people??

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      In some places it’s fuckin crazy how much emphasis people put on having a boy. Was reading an essay from a kid for work where they mentioned their family immigrated to America mostly because their grandparent refused to give land to her father because they had a girl, instead giving it to their cousin who had a boy. Imagine changing the fate of your son’s family over the sex of the kid he had?