Salon: A mother's anti-homophobia rant goes viral

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Thursday, Nov 4, 2010 18:15 ET
Broadsheet
A mother's anti-homophobia rant goes viral
Her son's gender-bending Halloween costume outraged other parents -- so she penned an eloquent, moving response
By Mary Elizabeth Williams



http://www.salon.com/life/parenting/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/11/04/my_son_is_gay_blogger

This is how it's done, folks. When the Bible Belt blogger known as Nerdy Apple Bottom's 5-year-old son wanted to be Daphne from Scooby Doo for Halloween this year, she supported his costume choice, orange wig and pink boots and all. Because duh, it's Halloween; the point is to be somebody you're not.

On Friday, the self-described "cop's wife" hinted about her child's experience at school that day on her blog by saying, "I am so proud of my brave little Daphne…. He had a few moments where he was worked up about people making fun of him, but mustered up the courage to go for it. He held his little orange wig high today," and "for those of you that looked at my sweet boy in disdain this morning, or looked at me funny for 'allowing' my son to be what he wanted to for Halloween, or made those snide and unnecessary comments -- your lives are small, your tact is lacking, and you can SUCK IT!"

This week she expanded on the experience and the sentiment, with a warm, funny cri de coeur entitled "My son is gay." She went on: "Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don’t want to know you." Bada BING.

It should be a no-brainer that 5-year-old boy who dresses like Daphne one day a year is not automatically gay or transgendered -- although obviously, if he had wanted to be Velma, he'd be a lesbian. The point is, as the mom blogger eloquently expresses it, so what? And furthermore, "I am not worried that your son will grow up to be an actual ninja so back off."

[ThatsMyBarack]

1. I just posted that here earlier....

But it bears repeating--over and over! ;)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. I don't get how DU's search function works (or doesn't)...

...I put in the Salon title and it didn't come up (then again, I just checked GD, not everywhere)...

:toast:

[RainDog]

2. that's a good mother

and those who said something are fucked in the head.

[ThomCat]

4. Some of the bullshit posts she's getting are really nasty.

:(

She has so many posts at this point that I doubt she'll bother to read them all. It would take far to long, and it would be a huge waste of time. But just reading a sample of the posts you come across some real assholes.

I'm very glad that the positive responses far, far outweigh the negative responses. There is hope for the world. :)